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On 1 Apr 2001, at 16:23, fuzzyface57@hotmail.com wrote: > You'd be very wrong comparing our engines to "Rotory" aircraft > engines. The "Rotory" Aircraft engine has a crankshaft fixed to the > airframe (does not rotate) and the crankcase (cylinders and propeller > attached) rotates around the crankshaft. So some people think "rotary" properly describes the Wankel, a few people have pointed out that it has long been used to describe the "inverted" radial piston aircraft engine, and I maintain that since all engines incorporate rotating parts that this word is a poor choice to differentiate any of these. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/