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All Awhirl: Rotary Engines Still Soaring High
It's the stuff of legend: goggles, leathercaps, and fluttering white scarves, brightly-colored canvas-and-wood aircraft clashing in battle, just barely past the fledgling stage of human flight. The ...
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Rotary vs radial aircraft engines explained, the engineering tradeoffs that powered World War I and II
From spinning rotary engines and their brutal side effects to the massive multi-row radials that powered bombers and fighters, this episode traces how engineers chased power through clever compromises ...
The rotary engine is unique in its success and failure and its ability to make an impact with a completely different way of thinking. As it is, every production car for the last 130 years, aside from ...
Bore and Stroke: 146 mm (5.8 in.) x 165 mm (6.5 in.) Following World War I, French Gnome-Rhone ended its production of rotary engines, and began building radial engines under license from English ...
Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...
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