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In its standard configuration, the aircraft is a true double-delta with no horizontal stabilizer; however, a small T-tail is an option for trimming variants with higher-power engines. Since the mid-1960s, designer John Dyke has sold full construction plans and three-view drawings for the aircraft to homebuilders and is still selling them today.
A rotary engine is essentially a standard Otto cycle engine, with cylinders arranged radially around a central crankshaft just like a conventional radial engine, but instead of having a fixed cylinder block with rotating crankshaft, the crankshaft remains stationary and the entire cylinder block rotates around it.
Data from Quest for Performance. General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 5.77 m (18 ft 11 in) Upper wingspan: 7.19 m (23 ft 7 in) Height: 2.95 m (9 ft 8 in) Wing area: 18.7 m 2 (201 sq ft) Aspect ratio: 4.04 Empty weight: 406 kg (895 lb) Gross weight: 586 kg (1,291 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Oberursel Ur.II 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine, 82 kW (110 hp) Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch ...
On the 31st of October 1918 the, newly formed, RAF had 385 Bentley BR.1 powered Camels vs 1,342 powered by Clergets. The remaining 821 aircraft were powered by either Le Rhône or Gnome Monosoupape engines. [1] The BR.1 was developed as the BR.2, a heavier, more powerful engine, [2] which powered, among other types of aircraft, the Camel's ...
It weighed 490 pounds (220 kg), only 93 pounds (42 kg) more than the Bentley BR.1. This was the last type of rotary engine to be adopted by the RAF – later air-cooled aircraft engines such as the Cosmos Jupiter and Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar being almost entirely of the fixed radial type. With the BR.2, the rotary engine had reached a point ...
[1] [4] In 2015 a quick-build kit was introduced at the U.S Sport Aviation Expo. [5] The aircraft fuselage is fabricated from welded 4130 steel tubing covered in doped aircraft fabric. The aluminum structure wing, covered in flush riveted aluminum sheet, employs a new Harry Riblett-designed airfoil and does not have flaps. The wing is supported ...
The Monosoupape (French for single-valve), was a rotary engine design first introduced in 1913 by Gnome Engine Company (renamed Gnome et Rhône in 1915). It used a clever arrangement of internal transfer ports and a single pushrod-operated exhaust valve to replace the many moving parts found on more conventional rotary engines, and made the Monosoupape engines some of the most reliable of the era.
The R-755 was first run in 1933 and was still in production in the 1970s. With a bore and stroke of 5.25 in × 5 in (133 mm × 127 mm) the displacement was 757 cu in (12.4 L), power ranged from 200 hp to 350 hp (150 kW - 260 kW).