[Fot] Header primary lengths

[Terry Stetler]

RE: [Fot] Header primary lengths
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Bill Babcock<mailto:BillB at bnj.com>
  To: Terry Stetler<mailto:tlizzard at msn.com> ; Michael
Porter<mailto:portermd at zianet.com>
  Cc: SHANE Ingate<mailto:hottr6 at hotmail.com> ;
fot at autox.team.net<mailto:fot at autox.team.net>
  Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 9:55 PM
  Subject: RE: [Fot] Header primary lengths



  "Big radials had short pipes because the engines rotated."



  Only WW1 era rotary engines such as the Gnome Rhone had the cylinders
rotating around a fixed crankshaft with the propeller bolted to the block.  A
the WW2 radials, such as the Wright Cyclone R2600 and Pratt and Whitney Twin
Wasp R2800 were conventional in that the engine block was stationary and the
crankshaft rotated inside it.

  I know I'm picking nits here, but I do love aircraft.



  Terry Stetler