The MAE 323 is a family of
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aircraft engines, designed and produced by
Modena Avio Engines (commonly called MAE) of
Rubiera
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History
The original name of t ...
for use in
light aircraft
A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a maximum gross takeoff weight of or less.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition'', page 308. Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1997.
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.
[Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', pages 260-261. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ]
The company seems to have been founded about 2003 and gone out of business by 2015. Since 2012 its website has consisted only of a placeholder page.
Design and development
The engine is a three-cylinder in
radial-configuration,
four-stroke, displacement, liquid-cooled, gasoline engine design, with a mechanical gearbox
reduction drive
A reduction drive is a mechanical device to shift rotational speed. A planetary reduction drive is a small scale version using ball bearings in an epicyclic arrangement instead of toothed gears.
Reduction drives are used in engines of all kinds ...
with a reduction ratio of 1.91:1. It employs dual
electronic ignition
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systems and has a
compression ratio of 9.0:1.
Variants
;MAE 323
:Model that produces at 4500 rpm, with an engine weight of .
;MAE 323 R
:Model that produces at 5500 rpm, with an engine weight of .
Specifications (MAE 323)
See also
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://modena.avioengines.com/
Official website archiveson
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Modena Avio Engines aircraft engines
Liquid-cooled aircraft piston engines
2000s aircraft piston engines