Radiator Cap

[Johnny]

Terry Martin wrote:
> 
> Johnny wrote:
> >
> > Tom Cloud wrote:
> > >
> > > -j- denigrated
> > > >
> > > >Tom Cloud wrote:
> > >
> > > >> I thought aeroplanes were air cooled ????
> > > >
> > > >Oh brother... not another one.
> > > >
> > > >-j-
> > > >
> > > (and I, foolishly, stuck it out again ;-)
> > >
> 
> Oh, I don't think you stuck it out that far. You're right for the wrong
> reason. Anything with a radiator is air cooled. The heat exchange
> mechanism is different for liquid coolant engines, on straight air
> cooled it's direct.
> 
> Find me a water cooled engine, and I'll show you a boat.
> 
> (Having all that water hose attached to the airplane didn't work that
> great, so they went radiator heat exchanged air cooled)
> 
> Terry

Damn purists

-j-