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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2184: The Aeroplane Speaks

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 25, 2022 · Episode: 2184 The Aeroplane Speaks: A 1917 book plays counterpoint to war. Today, the airplane speaks.

Tags airplane Blood April 1917 Charles Grey early flight Horatio Barber Morane Nieuport Red Baron von Richthoven The Aeroplane Speaks war WW-I

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3276: Airplane Engines

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 1, 2022 · Episode: 3276 Should airplane engines be cooled by liquid or air? Today, a design might go either way.

Tags Airplane engines anticipating change aviation Bull Riding curtiss cylinders Gyroscope gyroscopic inline engines internal combustion engines Langley liquid-cooled engines pistons radial engines rodeo rotary engines Santos Dumont steam engines technological change World War 1 world war 2 WW-I WW-II

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2233: GeeBee and Other Fast Planes

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 29, 2022 · Episode: 2233 Gee Bee, Macchi-Castoldi, and the age of speed. Today, we go for speed.

Tags 1942 Tokyo raid amateurs Bendix Gee Bee Granville Jimmy Doolittle Lowell Bayles Macchi-Castoldi Mystery racing airplane National Air Race Pulitzer schneider Supermarine Spitfire Thompson Trophy war

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2209: Before the DC-3

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 10, 2022 · Episode: 2209 Before the DC-3: The primitive years of commercial airlines. Today, what did we fly in before we had DC-3s?

Tags Caproni Ca-60 Transaereo commercial air travel Douglas DC-3 early flight Ernest Gann Farman Goliath transportation Vickers Vimy

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2198: Ahead of Its Time

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on March 18, 2022 · Episode: 2198 Getting ready to invent the airplane in 1901. Today, a journal tries to read the tea leaves.

Tags aeroplane Aerostat airplane dirigibles Langley lighter-than-air flight Santos Dumont W. Miller Wright Borthers

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