The AICTA LMD 416-00R is a
Czech aircraft engine
An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system. Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbines, although a few have been rocket powered and in recent years many ...
, that was designed and produced by
AICTA Design Work of
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
for use in
light aircraft.
[Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', pages 256-257. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ]
The company seems to have been founded about 2012 and gone out of business in 2016.
Design and development
The engine is a four-cylinder
horizontally-opposed, displacement, air and liquid-cooled,
diesel engine
The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-call ...
design, with a
helical gear mechanical gearbox-style of
reduction drive with reduction ratio of 1.6:1. It produces at 3950 rpm, with a
compression ratio
The compression ratio is the ratio between the volume of the cylinder and combustion chamber in an internal combustion engine at their maximum and minimum values.
A fundamental specification for such engines, it is measured two ways: the stati ...
of 18:1.
The engine can run on
diesel fuel
Diesel fuel , also called diesel oil, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and t ...
or
Jet A-1.
Specifications (LMD 416-00R)
See also
References
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External links
Official website archiveson
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AICTA aircraft engines
Aircraft diesel engines