Radial gasoline engines. Intriguing, but vulnerable, and bulky compared to the coming turbojets.
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Radial engines could be much tougher than a jet. It wasn't all that uncommon for WW2 aircraft to return to base with cylinders missing from running engines. That was one of the big draws for those aircooled engines. Robust and reliable. Bulky was their main drawback.
Look up the book "Thunderbolt" by Robert S. Johnson. He details a flight in which several German fighters expended whatever ammunition they had, and left, disappointed that his P-47 kept running and flying. The airplane was flying scrap, but the radial engine kept running, enough.
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