The Shvetsov ASh-21 is a seven-cylinder single-row air-cooled radial aero engine.
4-733: The ASh-21 is basically a single-row version of the Shvetsov ASh-82 . The ASh-21 also incorporates a number of parts from the ASh-62 radial engine. Design began in 1945, and by 1947 testing had finished and production had begun. Between 1947 and 1955 7,636 ASh-21 engines had been built in the USSR and beginning in 1952 it was produced in Czechoslovakia as the M-21 . Comparable engines Related lists Shvetsov ASh-82 The Shvetsov ASh-82 (M-82)
8-694: Is a Soviet 14-cylinder, two-row, air-cooled radial aircraft engine developed from the Shvetsov M-62 . The M-62 was the result of development of the M-25 , which was a licensed version of the Wright R-1820 Cyclone . Arkadiy Shvetsov re-engineered the Wright Cyclone design, through the OKB -19 design bureau he headed, for Russian aviation engine manufacturing practices and metric dimensions and fasteners, reducing
12-518: The stroke , dimensions and weight. This allowed the engine to be used in light aircraft, where an American-design Twin Cyclone , of some 930 kg (2,045 lb) weight in "dry" condition could not be installed. The engine entered production in 1940 and saw service in a number of Soviet aircraft. It powered the Tupolev Tu-2 and Pe-8 bombers and the inline engine -powered LaGG-3 was adapted for
16-924: The ASh-82 producing the famous Lavochkin La-5 fighter and its development, Lavochkin La-7 , additionally the Lavochkin La-9 with its Lavochkin La-11 escort variant and Ilyushin Il-14 airliner were created around the engine. Over 70,000 ASh-82s were built. They were built in the 1950s to 1960s era under licence, both in Czechoslovakia (as the M-82) by the Walter (Motorlet) factory in Prague-Jinonice and in
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