on video Tiny See-Thru Engine - In 4k Slow Motion

 

A rotary engine is essentially a standard Otto cycle engine, with cylinders arranged radially around a central crankshaft just like a conventional radial engine, but instead of having a fixed cylinder block with rotating crankshaft, the crankshaft remains stationary and the entire cylinder block rotates around it . In the most common form, the crankshaft was fixed solidly to the airframe, and the propeller was simply bolted to the front of the crankcase.

Animation of a seven-cylinder rotary engine with every-other-piston firing order.

This difference also has much impact on design (lubrication, ignition, fuel admission, cooling, etc.) and functioning (see below).

The Air and Space Museum in Paris has on display a special, "sectioned" working model of an engine with seven radially disposed cylinders. It alternates between rotary and radial modes to demonstrate the difference between the internal motions of the two types of engine.I run this Miniature Model see-through engine and film it in slow motion just like the original see-through engine to see what is going on inside the engine and how the combustion works in this very tiny running model 4-stroke engine since it's made a little differently than a full-sized engine.

 

A rotary engine is essentially a standard Otto cycle engine, with cylinders arranged radially around a central crankshaft just like a conventional radial engine, but instead of having a fixed cylinder block with rotating crankshaft, the crankshaft remains stationary and the entire cylinder block rotates around it . In the most common form, the crankshaft was fixed solidly to the airframe, and the propeller was simply bolted to the front of the crankcase.

Animation of a seven-cylinder rotary engine with every-other-piston firing order.

This difference also has much impact on design (lubrication, ignition, fuel admission, cooling, etc.) and functioning (see below).

The Air and Space Museum in Paris has on display a special, "sectioned" working model of an engine with seven radially disposed cylinders. It alternates between rotary and radial modes to demonstrate the difference between the internal motions of the two types of engine.I run this Miniature Model see-through engine and film it in slow motion just like the original see-through engine to see what is going on inside the engine and how the combustion works in this very tiny running model 4-stroke engine since it's made a little differently than a full-sized engine.

 

A rotary engine is essentially a standard Otto cycle engine, with cylinders arranged radially around a central crankshaft just like a conventional radial engine, but instead of having a fixed cylinder block with rotating crankshaft, the crankshaft remains stationary and the entire cylinder block rotates around it . In the most common form, the crankshaft was fixed solidly to the airframe, and the propeller was simply bolted to the front of the crankcase.

Animation of a seven-cylinder rotary engine with every-other-piston firing order.

This difference also has much impact on design (lubrication, ignition, fuel admission, cooling, etc.) and functioning (see below).

The Air and Space Museum in Paris has on display a special, "sectioned" working model of an engine with seven radially disposed cylinders. It alternates between rotary and radial modes to demonstrate the difference between the internal motions of the two types of engine.I run this Miniature Model see-through engine and film it in slow motion just like the original see-through engine to see what is going on inside the engine and how the combustion works in this very tiny running model 4-stroke engine since it's made a little differently than a full-sized engine.

 

A rotary engine is essentially a standard Otto cycle engine, with cylinders arranged radially around a central crankshaft just like a conventional radial engine, but instead of having a fixed cylinder block with rotating crankshaft, the crankshaft remains stationary and the entire cylinder block rotates around it . In the most common form, the crankshaft was fixed solidly to the airframe, and the propeller was simply bolted to the front of the crankcase.

Animation of a seven-cylinder rotary engine with every-other-piston firing order.

This difference also has much impact on design (lubrication, ignition, fuel admission, cooling, etc.) and functioning (see below).

The Air and Space Museum in Paris has on display a special, "sectioned" working model of an engine with seven radially disposed cylinders. It alternates between rotary and radial modes to demonstrate the difference between the internal motions of the two types of engine.I run this Miniature Model see-through engine and film it in slow motion just like the original see-through engine to see what is going on inside the engine and how the combustion works in this very tiny running model 4-stroke engine since it's made a little differently than a full-sized engine.