Aeronautics: Aviation Powerplants
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Aviation Powerplants Aviation has reshaped modern life and has provided for extreme convenience for traveling businessmen, vacationers, and thrillseekers alike. It also plays a key role in military operations of all kinds. Although aircraft design progression plays a predominant role in advancing ....
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.... are placed in a radial pattern around the crankshaft. These produced respectable horsepower numbers in the category of up to 185+. They were used in such famous aircraft as the Sopwith Camel and Moth. A variation of the rotary engine was used in the most famous aircraft of the war: The Fokker Dr.1 Triplane flown by Baron Von Richtofen. A unique feature of these engines is that they had no throttle, but ran at a constant speed. Also the cylinders were not fixed in place as one might expect ....
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