Two magnetos were mounted on the outside of each cylinder bank.

The engine was in V-form, with two cylinder banks set at 60 degrees.

The variation developed by Volkswagen retained the 18 cylinders but instead of three cylinder banks, it had four.

Flatplane V8 engines may use any angle between the cylinder banks, with 60 and 90 the most common.

Able to accept an autocannon in the "vee" between cylinder banks.

It is a V engine with an angle of 45 between cylinder banks.

Each line is referred to as a cylinder bank.

The angle between cylinder banks is described as the bank angle.

This was mounted between the cylinder banks of an inverted V-8 engine.

The two cylinder banks are inclined at a 72-degree angle.