Let me ease your furrowed brow. OK. cannot add the GIFs, but you get the idea. Digging the Gnome.
Did I miss it? Surprised at the omission of the radial engine.
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
Inline, V, W, and radial all fundamentally work the same way: 4-stroke.
Is that a flat head or a piston port motor?
One sparking plug for an aircraft motor?
Looks like it is FWD also!
Curious how that engine powers the car when the output shaft is in front. How do they get drive through the accessory section.
But the Gnome Rotary that is trying to be depicted here has the cylinders spinning on the axis and the center point stationary. This makes the propeller attached to the crankcase and the plane attached to the crack.
And a YouTube of one running for detail:
In reply to bentwrench :
The Trossi-Monaco pictured is a 2 stroke radial with 7 cylinders and front wheel drive. The one time it was presented for competition it was far too slow.
The WWI Sopwith Camel had one of those. When we were kids, we built several of the Revell 1/24 kits. The model's engine would rotate with the propeller when completed. I always wondered how those engines worked.
In reply to Driven5 :
Even a turbine operates that way.
You still have intake, compression, power and exhaust, they just happen in-line.
I'm disappointed that there is no opposed-piston 2-stroke on there, like a Fairbanks-Morse 38D8 1/8 or the even wilder Napier Deltic
NickD said:
This needs some 70's disco music to accompany it.
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