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    The Maybach VL II was a type of internal combustion engine built by the German company Maybach in the late 1920s and 1930s. It was an uprated development...
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    The Maybach VL I was an Otto cycle V-12 engine, made from 1924 in Germany. The airship LZ 126 was powered by five VL I engines which emphasised reliability...
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  • shape. Having perfected the hull, Lürssen equipped the boat with three Maybach VL II V12 engines of 370 kW (500 hp) each. In Lürssen speed trials the new...
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    supplies and military load (including the skyhook airplanes) Eight Maybach VL II 560 hp (420 kW) gasoline engines were mounted inside the hull. Each...
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    shape would compromise its strength. Graf Zeppelin was powered by five Maybach VL II 12-cylinder 410 kW (550 hp) engines, each of 33.251 L (2,029.1 cu in)...
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    airships Akron and Macon, but both were equipped with German-built Maybach VL II engines as the V-1710 was still in testing when the Macon was lost in...
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    gelatin-latex fabric. Inside the hull, the ship had eight German-made Maybach VL II 12-cylinder, 560 hp (418 kW) gasoline-powered engines that drove outside...
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    × 140 mm) Maybach AZ Maybach DW Maybach IR Maybach BY Maybach CX Maybach HS Maybach HS D Maybach HS-Lu Maybach Mb.III Maybach Mb.IV Maybach Mb.IVa Maybach 300 hp...
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    of five nacelles fixed to the hull. Every nacelle contained a Maybach engine, type VL 2, which drove a propeller at the nacelle’s tail. A mechanic was...
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    Sd.Kfz. 9 (category World War II half-tracks)
    provided by a Maybach 12-cylinder, water-cooled, 10.8-litre (660 cu in) HL 108 gasoline engine of 270 hp (200 kW). It had a synchromesh ZF G 65 VL 230 transmission...
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