Looking very good Michael
Very true Michael, but on start up, a rotary engine that size - really does sound quite nice.\ said:Nice result. I'm off to youtube to listen to a Corsair on start up.
There is a difference between a radial engine and a rotary engine. Where the cylinder bank is fixed (as was typical of round engines from the decade prior to the Second World War onwards), the crankshaft turns inside fixed cylinder banks. Where the engine cylinders rotate around the crankshaft, the engine is known as a rotary engine; these were quite common on aircraft from the First World War and into the 1920s. The main advantage of a radial engine is you can have numerous banks of cylinders around a larger crank, producing more power. If you tried to increase the number of cylinder banks on a rotating engine, you would have uncontrollable swing in full power/low speed scenarios. Imagine the size of the rudder/fin/fuselage arm to control a 2,000hp Twin P&W Wasp!\ said:Very true Michael, but on start up, a rotary engine that size - really does sound quite nice.
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