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From: wolit@rabbit.UUCP (Jan Wolitzky)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Radial engines
Message-ID: <2920@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 10:34:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 10:34:58 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Jul-84 04:19:40 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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On this morning's CBS radio "Newsbreak" segment, there was an
interview with one Douglas Campbell, an 88-year old WWI flying ace.
He described his Nieuport (sp?) as having been powered by radial
engine in which the cylinders and prop rotated together around a 
fixed crankshaft, which was attached to the plane.  Now, I'm not about
to argue with one who was there, but I always thought that in a radial
engine, it was only the geometry that was different, but that, as in a
"conventional" piston engine, the cylinders were fixed and the crank
did the turning.  I can't figure out how you'd manage carburetion,
valve actuation, etc., with the cylinders spinning around madly, or
if you could, why you'd want to.  Could someone out there enlighten
me?

	Jan Wolitzky, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ