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Default OT ish Really interesting automobile engine.

On 18/03/2014 09:46, Nightjar wrote:
On 18/03/2014 09:02, harryagain wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y0XbqHU...yer_detailpage

Heh. I knew these were used on aircraft but not in cars.


A good power to weight ratio, which the rotary engine has because it
needs no additional flywheel, would have been just as important in an
early motor car as it was in early aircraft.

Colin Bignell


I'd have called it a radial engine, not a rotary (Wankel).