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The BMW 802 was a large air-cooled radial aircraft engine, built using two-rows of 9-cylinders to produce what was essentially an 18-cylinder version of the 14-cylinder BMW 801. Although promising at first, development dragged on and the project was eventually cancelled to concentrate of jet engines instead.
Soon after the 801 entered testing, BMW engineers turned [...]
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General characteristics
* Type: Twin-row 18-cylinder radial engine
* Bore: 6.125 in (155.6 mm)
* Stroke: 6.312 in (160.2 mm)
* Displacement: 3,347 in3 (54.56 L)
* Length: 76.26 in (1,930 mm)
* Diameter: 55.78 in (1,420 [...]
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