A Radial engine was used on old bi-planes - many (round)cylinders around one shaft - Rotary engines have a triangle type piston - not round. Instead of going up & down ,they move in a somewhat triangle circle.
The largest tsunami on record strucky Lituya Bay in a  remote portion of Alaska in 1958. It was overâ¦ 1,700 feet tall. The  meteor impact associated with the extinction of the dinosaurs is  believed to have generated a tsunami 3,000 feet to 1 mile tall.
100 feet. An earthquake followed by a landslide in 1958 in Alaskaâs Lituya Bay generated a wave 100 feet high, the tallest tsunami ever documented. When the wave ran ashore, it snapped trees 1,700 feet upslope. Five deaths were recorded, but property damage was minimal because there were few cities or towns nearby.t killed some 200,000 people, making it the deadliest wave known. 78 feet. Garrett McNamara holds the record for the largest wave ever surfed, set in 2011 in Nazare, Portugal. Last year he claimed to have surfed a 100-footer also at Nazare, but the height hasnât been confirmed.