Airplane engines generate a lot of heat. This is common with combustion engines. Most of that heat is expelled in the exhaust gases. The vast majority of airplane engines are air-cooled using ram-airflow through the engine compartment to carry away some of the heat produced. Air-cooled engines are also dependent on the circulation of lubricating oil for proper cooling. This makes your oil pressure and temperature gauges very important, and they need to be part of your instrument scan. They may p

What Is A Hot V Turbo Engine? From Mercedes on the "Hot Inside V" setup: "For better performance and packaging, the AMG V8's twin turbos are placed inside the "V" of the engine. A sports-car first, it sends the compressed charge from each turbo to its bank of cylinders via an extremely short path, with near-zero pressure loss or turbo lag. The high-pressure turbos spool up quickly to as much as 186,000 rpm. The setup is also highly efficient from intake to exhaust, with liquid-cooled intercooler