Continental Motors
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Continental Motors is a corporation in Mobile, AL, USA, that produces aircraft engines.
The company also supplied automobile engines to independent automobile producers in the 1920s and 1930s. Continental Motors also produced Continental branded automobiles in 1932/1933 based upon the 1931 DeVaux, a product of the DeVaux Motors Corporations of California, which had been using body dies left over from the former Durant, which been produced by Durant Motors until 1930
1905 Continental Motors is born with the introduction of a four-cylinder, four stroke cycle L-head engine operated by a single camshaft.
1906 Type "O" 45 hp (34 kW) engine is developed to power aircraft.
1929 A-70 radial, seven-cylinder engine is introduced.
1930 A-40 four-cylinder engine is introduced.
1938 A-50 is added to the lineup to power the Piper Cub and Taylorcraft.
1939 Continental builds aircraft engines for use in British and American tanks.
1945 Six-cylinder E-185 developed for Beechcraft Bonanza.
1950s A-65 developed into the more powerful C-90 and eventually to the 100 hp (75 kW) O-200. The latter powered one of the most important airplanes ever: the Cessna 150.
1960s Turbocharging and fuel injection are brought to general aviation. IO-520's applications expand to dominate the market.
1984 TSIO-520-BE for the Piper Malibu. It sets new efficiency targets for piston engines.
1986 Powered by a liquid cooled version of the IO-240, the Rutan Voyager is the first piston-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the world without refueling.
1997 NASA selects Continental to develop and produce GAP, a new 200-hp engine that operates on Jet-A fuel.
1999 Continental develops and tests its first FADEC-equipped engine.
Source; excerpt and wikified from official site
External link
- Teledyne Continental Motors (http://www.tcmlink.com/) TCM official site
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