Who did this?
WTF ???
Chubby fuel.
preach said:
That thing looks like it has a lot of miles on it. The car is in great shape though.
Yes please.
Astro Camino?
914Driver said:Astro Camino?
El Camastro
Modern cars are just bigger
914Driver said:Yes please.
Neat!
In reply to 914Driver :
Her bike?
914Driver said:Yes please.
That thing has Gerry Anderson written all over it.
aircooled said:Well... there are rotary radial engines:
Many WWI aircraft engines are radials, where the crank is attached to the plane, so the whole engine spins (yes, there is a LOT of gyroscopic procession effect!). The engine breath through a hollow crank, so intake charge passes through the crank case and the intake valves are on the pistons. Yes, they are kind of strange.
I would love to find a good diagram of that, because I am still not entirely sure how it works.
I love the concept, only because it is a nice exercise to try to get modern eyes to see the problems that our forefathers were trying to solve.
A rotary airplane engine has a lot of rotational intertia, true. But what it shouldn't have is any reciprocating vibration. If the crank is stationary, then the pistons effectively are traveling in a circle and not up and down. Eliminating vibration is probably extremely important when your airframe is knocked together from bits of wood and cloth.
They were also generally unthrottled. You controlled power by duty-cycling the ignition, manually. Suddenly all of that rotational inertia isn't so bad, especially bearing in mind the airframe made out of toilet paper and tongue depressors.
Oh! And full loss oil systems. So, er, wear a scarf to keep it from running down your neck. Apocryphally, WWI pilots had an almost permanent case of the runs due to all of the castor oil they ingested while flying.
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