Re: Speaking of Rotaries

wisconsinmike Wrote:
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> beleneagle Wrote:
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> > I've heard it said that steam engines are
> machines
> > that beat themselves to death, so it only
> figures
> > that a steam type rotary would be the same. My
> > question is does a diesel rotary use some sort
> of
> > traction motor to drive the shaft, or does it
> use
> > some other means?
>
> The same is said of helicopters: "A million parts
> all trying to come apart at once, the trick is
> keeping them all together long enough to get from
> point A to B."
>
> We use accelerometers to finely weight and balance
> all of the moving parts on a helicopter, I can
> imagine a rotary could really benefit from careful
> balancing.


In my Navy we called a helocopter a bunch of parts flying in close formation and sometimes it was called a bunch of parts going to the
same place on the same day. Ditto for the rotary!