Radial Renaissance
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008“Real airplanes have round engines,” says a popular pilots’ bumper sticker. Anyone with aviation in the blood knows that it is radials the sticker is referring to and not jet engines (and any aero-Philistine who tries to suggest that jets are also round is likely to be stoned or pilloried). Radial engines epitomise the “golden age” of romantic aviation—an ...

