The rotary engine was an early type of internal-combustion engine, usually designed with an odd number of cylinders per row in a radial configuration, in which the crankshaft remained stationary and the entire cylinder block rotated around it. The design was used mostly in the years shortly before and during World War I to power aircraft, and also saw use in a few early motorcycles and cars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine
I can’t fa… err, nevermind.
These uses a sling type oilier… and used as much oil as they did gas… that why the old type bi-wing pilots wore the ubiquitous scarves… to wipe all the spend oil off their goggles…
The next generation stationary type where much better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ChXmMiXjY
Still used by Mazda in their sports cars, i.e. RX-8
Ahhh… That’s a Rotary engine…. these are Radial engines
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Um, no, not exactly.
Mazda’s Wankel engines are often referred to as Rotary, but it not the same as the Radial or Rotary engine shown here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine_%28disambiguation%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine
Hey Atkinson, where’s the Kitty Hawk?
etiii:
“There are more Kitty Hawks in heaven and earth, etiii,
Than are dreamt of in your Wiki.”* 🙂
P-40?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40
Good idea, thanks
Atk
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_Hamlet_in_common_English