Nieuport-Macchi Parasol
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The Nieuport-Macchi Parasol was a single-engine observation aircraft produced by the Italian aeronautical company Nieuport-Macchi in the early 1910s. It was the first aircraft designed independently b
A Nieuport-Macchi Parasol in 1913.
Rotary engine
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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 re
Nieuport-Macchi Parasol
…already in production: Mainly of wood construction covered by canvas, the Parasol had an 80-horsepower (60 kW) Gnome 7 Lambda seven-cylinder air-cooled rotary engine driving a helical wooden two-bladed fixed-pitch propeller. It had bicycle landing gear with a rear skid. As in similar monoplanes of the era, the Parasol…
An 80 horsepower (60 kW) rated Le Rhône 9C, a typical rotary engine of WWI. The copper pipes carry the fuel-air mixture from the crankcase to the cylinder heads acting collectively as an intake manifold.
This Le Rhône 9C installed on a Sopwith Pup fighter aircraft at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. Note the narrowness of the mounting pedestal to the fixed crankshaft (2013), and the size of the engine
Megola motorcycle with rotary engine mounted in the front wheel
An 1897 Félix Millet motorcycle