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piston engines

n. (plural of piston engine English)

Usage examples of "piston engines".

Steam engines of all types, particularly piston engines and small portable turbines, are more advanced than in our history.

Once or twice, off in the distance, Ludmila heard piston engines racing.

It died away a little as the two piston engines roared - he taxied out and hit the throttles.

We had a large investment in piston engines, an investment not just in the factories that made them but also in close to forty years' thinking they were the right and proper way to go about powering aircraft.

The other factor is, piston engines were proved by those forty years.

He remembered when piston engines spun wood propellers, and wings were fabric on wood.

We had a large investment in piston engines, an investment not just in the factories that made them but also in close to forty years’.

My people tell me that manufacturing jet engines is considerably more difficult than building piston engines.

The plane, accompanied by the steady roar of the four Pratt-tney piston engines and their endless vibrating beat, gently banked toward a new horizon.