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Above a captured Spitfire daubed with Nazi symbols is pictured. It was seized at Dunkirk

 

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[DeltaV]

This is really, really cool. Radial Rotary Engine

 

[Photon440]

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Quite the airplane. Despite the fame of the Spitfire, the Hurricane shot down more enemy aircraft during the Battle Of Britain.

 

[Dave6T4]

There was also an early car that that used a rear mounted rotary engine. In a rotary engine, the crankshaft is stationary, and the cylinders spin. On a radial, the engine is stationary, and the crankshaft spins.

 

[Photon440]

There was also an early car that that used a rear mounted rotary engine. In a rotary engine, the crankshaft is stationary, and the cylinders spin. On a radial, the engine is stationary, and the crankshaft spins.

Add to that, a couple of motorcycles using a rotary engine. Such as this Felix Millet, from 1897. Notice the five cylinder engine attached to the rear wheel.

 

[Richard Cranium]

This is really, really cool. Radial Rotary Engine

That was a pretty good video. I knew that the crankshaft was fixed and that they ran wide open when started, but didn’t know much of the mechanics involved.

 

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