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Rotary engines were common in aircraft of WWI vintage.
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I wonder when the last Rotary engine was used in a production aircraft and the first Radial.
Wikipedia and ye shall have some shot at knowing:
"C.M. Manly Constructed a water-cooled five-cylinder radial engine in 1901, a conversion of one of Stephen Balzer's rotary engines, for Langley's Aerodrome aircraft."
Radial engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"By the mid-1920s, rotaries had been more or less completely displaced even in British service, largely by the new generation of air-cooled "stationary" radials such as the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar and Bristol Jupiter."
Rotary engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They needed Castor Oil as a lube?
Geoff
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Wikipedia and ye shall have some shot at knowing:
"C.M. Manly Constructed a water-cooled five-cylinder radial engine in 1901, a conversion of one of Stephen Balzer's rotary engines, for Langley's Aerodrome aircraft."
Radial engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"By the mid-1920s, rotaries had been more or less completely displaced even in British service, largely by the new generation of air-cooled "stationary" radials such as the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar and Bristol Jupiter."
Rotary engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They needed Castor Oil as a lube?
Geoff
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Yeah, and the lack of castor oil or acceptable substitutes was one of the things that hamstrung the WWI Luftstreitkrafte toward the end.
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