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Starting a rotary engine.
JackFlash
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Posted: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 06:56 AM UTC
Here is a bit of fun.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1275212115532&ref=mf

Removed by original poster on 08/03/10 - 19:45:17 (GMT).
ludwig113
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Posted: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 03:12 AM UTC
lovely,if that had been in the uk you wouldn't have been allowed with 100 meters
of it because of health and safety!

paul
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Posted: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 03:49 AM UTC
That is the most beautiful sound in the whole world ! Nothing even comes close . Thanks for sharing Stephen .
CaptainA
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Posted: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 04:28 AM UTC

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That is the most beautiful sound in the whole world ! Nothing even comes close . Thanks for sharing Stephen .


Nothing but the sweet sound of my lovely wife. softly whispering in my ear, "You need to go clean up the garage".

Sorry, I just needed a little dose of reality.
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Posted: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 07:45 AM UTC
Fascinating....
JackFlash
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Posted: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 09:53 AM UTC
Here is a Fok. E.V / D.VIII .

Click here.
thegirl
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Posted: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 10:58 AM UTC
OOOOOO......I'm so excited now that I have to go and have a cold shower !
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Posted: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 01:41 PM UTC

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OOOOOO......I'm so excited now that I have to go and have a cold shower !




Stephen, that's just awesome. Thanks for linking those little gems.

Cheers, D
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Posted: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 - 11:18 PM UTC
Pretty neat videos. I enjoyed seeing them.
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Posted: Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 02:16 PM UTC
Personally, I would have to say the most lovely sound, a la machine, is the Norton Manx 500cc. single in full throat. Truly a song to the ears of oil heads world around.

Mike
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Posted: Thursday, August 05, 2010 - 08:53 PM UTC

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Terri: "OOOOOO......I'm so excited now that I have to go and have a cold shower ! "


Ok no posting those images here!
thegirl
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Posted: Friday, August 06, 2010 - 03:01 AM UTC

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Terri: "OOOOOO......I'm so excited now that I have to go and have a cold shower ! "


Ok no posting those images here!


Yeah , a Lot of wives wouldn't be too happy ...........
JackFlash
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Posted: Monday, October 29, 2012 - 12:58 PM UTC
One modeler discusses the operation of the Spandau Maxims.


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". . .This an interesting view of MvR with triplane (Fok. F.I 102/17). Several cool features can be seen. You can see the mechanics priming the Ur.II engine with gasoline prior to starting it. On the rotary each cylinder was primed before attempting starting. They must have been weak that day, two actually spin the prop.

Note that the German inline engine aircraft were not prop started, you turn the prop a few times with switches off to prime it, then you merely switched on the mag and then, to actually crank it you spun the hand crank of a booster mag in the cockpit which gave a spark and this started the engine. As for the machine gun set up you can see the empty cartridge tray which let the cartridges flow out onto the curved part of the decking and then drop off the side of the fuselage to flow down somewhat under the cockpit. Note the interim Spandau Maxims in this aircraft. They have the Lindstrom/or Klingstrom device turned outward, so when you see MvR working the clearing handles, twice fo each gun he is making sure there is no loaded cartridge inside the chamber and if there was one he ejecting it in the tray. As the device is not camming with the clearing handle due to being in the forward position, the belt is not moving so no new cartridges are being taken into the gun. However on a real missions MvR would have cleared the guns as shown, but would have then reached forwarded and turned the device 180 degrees towards him so when he worked the clearing handles in flight twice each, they would then work the belt also and this would serve to charge the gun in the air. As this particular flight was for the cameras, MvR has left the device pointed forward. Pretty darn nice video. Note that most of the ground crew are wearing stirmutz caps, normally these were NCO caps, but they were so popular that many commissioned officers wore them also. Enlisted personnell work the brimless Mutz cap. . ."




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