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Has anybody tried to understand how a rotary engine, such as were used in Sopwith Camels, actually works? That is definitely weird machinery! I have a book with an exploded diagram of a rotary engine and it seems to me to be as easy to understand as some of the popular advanced Soduko puzzles in the morning paper.
All I can extract from the description is that the crankshaft is fixed and the crankcase complete with cylinders rotates around it. I got lost trying to figure out how fuel is delivered to the combustion chambers.
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