Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Kemp Machine Works (Muncie, Indiana)
- Physical Description
- Type: Reciprocating, in-line, 4 cylinders; air-cooled, concentric valves; automatic inlet valve
- Power rating: 26 kW (35 hp) at 1,150 rpm
- Displacement: 4.18 L (255.36 cu in.)
- Bore and Stroke: 108 mm (4.25 in.) x 108 mm (4.25 in.)
- Weight: 82.2 kg (181 lb)
- Summary
- The Kemp Machine Works of Muncie, Indiana built several types of air-cooled engines for airplanes, motorcycles, ice boats, and air-drives for boats. Due to its simple design and quantity production, this engine sold for approximately one half the price of its water-cooled competitors, and was lighter, more streamlined, and trouble-free than most of them.
- Early models such as this one had concentric valves, which presented a large valve area, but a complicated design. Later models were equipped with conventional valves. All of the 2-, 4-, and 6-cylinder models had automatic intake valves.
- A Kemp Model D-4 powered Walter Ralston's 1912 biplane.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. L. L. Walker Houston, TX.
- 1911-1912
- Inventory Number
- A19660012000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PROPULSION-Reciprocating & Rotary
- Materials
- Metal
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 76 × 30 × 46cm (29 15/16 × 11 13/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
- Support: 72.4 × 73.7 × 47cm (28 1/2 in. × 29 in. × 18 1/2 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19660012000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9a4b64dab-8bee-4af2-8876-66b5b5961301
