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Motorized a Rotary Engine for my Eindekker WW1 One fighter .
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Nice job!
It's so funny that the Germans used the ~70hp Oberursel U.0 engine which was a license-built copy of the French Gnome 7 Lambda engine, which was in some of the Fighters planes the German fighters fought against. I wonder if the license payments lapsed during the war? Bob
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I think such legal niceties went by the wayside dyribg the war.They tried a 14 cylinder engine,but the increased weight compromised performance.
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Ummmm... A radial engine, right?
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Don't think so Growler,back then they used "Rotary" engines in which the engine spun and the crankshaft stayed still, Radials do the opposite.
My grand dead was killed by a bomb dropped from a Gotha bomber in June 1917.It went through the roof and exploded in a office with him and about twenty young lady typists who worked for him. My Dad was six at the time and saw all the gruesome details from across the street. Nevertheless Ive always been fascinated by WW1 aircraft.
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I'm more used to rotary engines being midship propelling the rear wheels. |
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The pilots controlled the engine by turning the ignition on and off and with that monster spinning mass on the front of the aircraft quickly realized the meaning of "gyroscopic effect" as they screamed across the sky doing 100 mph. We seem to have worked out the bugs and have way better war machines now! Just what is it these various countries want to "win" anyway? Jeeze, it doesn't take long to get into political trouble,----- forum wise!
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Oh, and just as a point of interest, we've got a couple of these functional engines living down the road from us. There's a museum where they either restore planes (WWII) or reconstruct them (WWI) and fly them. There are over thirty types from both wars including four repro Fokker DR.1 Dreideckers and an E.111 (variant of the Eindecker). There's a Rotex replica rotary in one of the DR.1s. They don't mention that Werner Voss' blue Dr.1 is also modeled.
MORE Bob
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Yes when I turn on the motor it cranks to the right.
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Last edited by philo426; 08-23-2018 at 10:52 AM. |
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http://www.shuttleworth.org/the-collection/ and The Imperial War Museum : https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford I live in the south-east of England so we are surrounded with a host of small fighter airfields (or at least the sites of them). One of them which has a small museum was where the Lysanders used to load up SOE operatives, (Special Operations Executive - alternatively termed the "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare") to be dropped in occupied France, Netherlands etc. So many great, talented, courageous people and so few who got home again, although I did have the pleasure of knowing and interviewing one).
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