Sorry, but you are not writing the truth.
There was an installation with an ordinary coal boiler (1.5 m of heating surface, although it should be about 2.1 but with a power of 17.5 kW - with a demand of 12.5 kW), pipes at the furnace connection -1 "with reductions to 3/4" and 1/2 "at the very top and" on the twigs.
Cast iron radiators - 120 ribs, pump 0.75kW (I do not know the capacity).
All this was also connected to the municipal network.
Due to the low inertia of cast iron and water capacity - first I reduced the number of ribs to the design 69 pieces (!) And then replaced them with Purmo convection heaters with a total power of 16kW (according to the design, 10.5kW is enough)
This resulted in energy savings of about 20%, but the bills were too high anyway - I switched to my own
And despite the fact that previously there was about 300l of water in cast iron, now nothing shoots or collapses.
The cross-sections of the pipes have nothing to do with installation with a pump.
In my case, overheating and airing of the system occurs only when I overfill the furnace and the house is already so hot that the thermostats choke the heat reception by the radiators.
If, on the other hand, I have time to react (temperature on the stove - about 85C) and turn the thermostats on full - they will have time to pick up the heat of the water and it's ok (but there is a sausage in the house)

In the described "broken" case, I would consider how to install the radiators (bevels of twigs)
I do not know the spacing of connections of the radiators installed by them, but:
60cm cast iron rib - spacing 55 and distance from the wall 8.5
Purmo convector 60cm - 50 and 6.5 respectively
but I also tried to convert to aluminum convectors (I don't remember ... it's 10 years ago) and these 60 nets had a width of exactly 60 cm.
Therefore, it suggests installation error. Perhaps the knobs do not have the correct connection angles.