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Continental Motors is a corporation in Mobile, AL, USA, that produces aircraft engines.
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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