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Rotary engine

The rotary engine is a type of reciprocating internal combustion engine, usually designed with an odd number of cylinders per row in a radial configuration. In most designs, the engine's crankshaft remained stationary in operation, while the entire crankcase and its attached cylinders rotated around it as a unit. Its main application was in aviation…

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Rotary engine control

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Use in cars and motorcycles

Other rotary engines

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Rotary engine

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Triples165
Avg. degree1.98
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Rotary engine

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related to Gnome · 26
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related to Postwar · 19
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related to External links · 14
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related to Other rotary engines · 14
Rotary engine → Besides, Bricklin SV-1, Bricklin-Turner Rotary Vee, In, Mazda, NSU, Piston, Ro80, RX-series, The, The Rotary Vee, This, V-shaped, Wankel
related to Adams-Farwell · 12
Rotary engine → Adams-Farwell, American, Bentley BR1, Clerget, Emil Berliner, Fay Oliver Farwell, French Army, Gnôme, In, It, The Adams-Farwell, US
related to Use in cars and motorcycles · 11
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related to World War I · 10
Rotary engine → An, Castor, Due, Flying, Oil, Rotaries, The, This, While, World War
related to Balzer · 8
Rotary engine → Balzer, Balzer's, He, In, New York, Stephen, The, To
related to Monosoupape rotaries · 8
Rotary engine → Early, However, It, Monosoupape, Prolonged, The, This, Thus
related to "Normal" rotaries · 7
Rotary engine → Although, Bloctube, Due, Most, The, This, Throttling

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Rotary engineis atype of reciprocating internal combustion engine0.90text
dogfightsinstance ofthis could be advantageous in situations0.80text
the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguarinstance ofradials0.80text
Bristol Jupiter.Experiments with the concept of the rotary engine continued.The first version of the 1921 Michel engineinstance ofradials0.80text
an unusual opposed-piston cam engineinstance ofradials0.80text
used the principle of a rotary engineinstance ofradials0.80text
in that itsinstance ofradials0.80text
the RX-seriesinstance ofby Mazda in a variety of cars0.80text
and in some aviation applications.In the late 1970s a concept engine called the Bricklin-Turner Rotary Vee was testedinstance ofby Mazda in a variety of cars0.80text
Rotary enginerelated to "Normal" rotariesMost0.60section
Rotary enginerelated to "Normal" rotariesAlthough0.60section
Rotary enginerelated to "Normal" rotariesBloctube0.60section

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