Rotary Engine Motopcycle

[Arizona Bay]

I mean Radial.. LoL


bada$$






http://www.jrlcycles.com/page/page/4187437.htm

[Arizona Bay]

Cold start

[Paul Pless]

radial. . .

[Arizona Bay]

radial. . .

Yeah, that's what I meant, but my fingers wrote something else

[Paul Pless]

So Rotec Engineering, founded by an aviation enthusiast, spent years developing a line of 7 and 9 cylinder radials for small experimental airplanes; only to find his largest market is custom choppers. . .

http://www.rotecradialengines.com/

[LeeG]

choppers are goofy

[Arizona Bay]

...and impractical. They sound cool though

Art is what it is

[Paul Pless]

choppers are goofy

well one guy has built an autogyro with a Rotec. . .

[Paul Pless]

Pretty cool 3/4 scale PT-17. . .

[Paul Pless]

Ian should be very proud, Rotec is an Australian aerospace company, making state of the engines circa mid 1920's technology.

[Arizona Bay]

nice
I heard something with a radial engine fly over a couple of weeks ago, it was in the sun though. Love the sound.

[John Bell]

THIS is a rotary engine:


Gnome Rotary Engine No. 1 by dlberek, on Flickr

Paul recently posted a picture of a motorcycle with a rotary engine in the front wheel. A lovely thing, but surely it would be dreadful to ride.

[Cuyahoga Chuck]

I like the way the designer solved the problem of no cooling airflow to the rear cylinders. He merely mounts an insubstantial gas tank which will be sucked dry before the motor seizes.
Perfectly simple, simply perfect.

[Paul Pless]

It has water cooled cylinder heads. . .

[David W Pratt]

Air cooled radials must be the HP/lb champs

[Paul Pless]

Air cooled radials must be the HP/lb champs

Bottom half of the field generally.

[crawdaddyjim50]

Bottom half of the field generally.

True, but nothing looks and sounds sweeter than a radial. I worked on some at the warbird museum when I was younger as a helper.

[purri]

I heard three Curtiss Wright(Allison?) engined tp bombers fly past along the coast last month. Then a PBY. Most impressive!

[PeterSibley]

Pretty cool 3/4 scale PT-17. . .

For that I would give up motorcycles several times over .

[Keith Wilson]

Rotary engine motorcycle.

[hokiefan]

THIS is a rotary engine:


Gnome Rotary Engine No. 1 by dlberek, on Flickr

Paul recently posted a picture of a motorcycle with a rotary engine in the front wheel. A lovely thing, but surely it would be dreadful to ride.

I understand how rotary engines worked. But I have never gotten my head around why anyone would rotate the cylinders around the shaft. Just creates too many obvious problems in my mind. Almost, "What were they thinking?"

Cheers,

Bobby

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Rotary engine motorcycle.


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There's an RE5 which lives just along the road - very pretty in its own quaint way.

I rather like this one - though why they fitted a chain is beyond me.

[purri]

THIS is a rotary engine:


Gnome Rotary Engine No. 1 by dlberek, on Flickr

Paul recently posted a picture of a motorcycle with a rotary engine in the front wheel. A lovely thing, but surely it would be dreadful to ride.

Actually it's a "Gnome et Rhone". They made conventionally engined bikes too.

[varadero]

[Paul Pless]

Rotary Engine Motorcycle. . .

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

[purri]

^ Norton?

[skuthorp]

My cousin part owns and flies this, a Yak 52.
http://www.adventureflightsunlimited.com.au/



The Yakovlev Yak-52 (Як-52) is a Soviet trainer aircraft which first flew in 1976. The Yak-52 was designed originally as an aerobatic trainer for students in the Soviet DOSAAF training organisation, which trained both civilian and military pilots.
The all-metal Yak-52 is powered by a 268 kW (360 hp) Vedeneyev M14P 9-cylinder supercharged radial engine. The aircraft has inverted fuel and oil systems permitting inverted flight for as long as two minutes.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

^ Norton?

With the kid sister's next door neighbour.

[PeterSibley]

[skuthorp]

Speaking of "Gnome et Rhone" there's this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPgrk9gpkXw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=WCkpn8mlfxE

And a triplane with a new Le Rhone engine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=0aaf2WnHG_A