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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

 

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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.

 

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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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In 1970, the first Tristar was made ready for its maiden flight.

By Jon Proctor - Gallery page https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/5893645Photo https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/1/18870_1168031604.jpg, GFDL 1.2, File:Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar, Lockheed JP5893645.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

 

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Lancaster?

 

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Lancaster?

Yes, it was a popular test bed for jet engines. Avro in England used it to test Rolls Royce Ghost engines prior to their use on the Comet, and Avro Canada used them as test platforms for the Orenda engines used on the Avro 100 jet fighter. Sweden also experimented with jets attached to a Lancaster.

 

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