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William:
By mid 1918, the days of the rotary engine were numbered. The horse power peaked with the BR.2 at 230 hp and the Seimens-Schukert bi-rotary SSWIIIa at 260Ps. No new designs followed these two engines. Radials, V-8 and V-12 engines were being produced at the end of the war that were putting out up to 500 hp, with 1000 hp engines just over the horizon. Rotaries were on their way out along with the buggy whip.
Blue skies,
Dan-San
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