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m9a3r5i7o2n · 2 November 2008, 02:00 PM

Quote from:
Romani
Ruritania Flieger

Forgot to add that from mid 1917 onwards only the SE5 was under gunned, and not really by that much. The Constantinesco synchronizing gear in use by the Allies allowed for a higher rate of fire than the German system, coupled with the higher RoF of the unsynchronized Lewis, all things considered I estimate that the SE5 could put as much lead in the air as a pair of Spandaus.

Question:
Since you have come up with the Constantinescu (Inventor) and Colley (Instigator) Gear I am wondering just how much this unit was actually used as there seems to be two types one that used oil for the transmission of the sound power and one that used a wire to provide the timing. I have the one with the oil transmission but have not been able to find anyway to find the one with the wire sound transmission. It is really fascinating to try to figure just how this mechanism worked and how he got that much power from the sound that he claimed.
One of the extremely fascinating things about the oil type is the seemingly lack of any type of sound (Generator) explanation! Just how did he get enough power through the oil/wire to actuate the timer?

The generator appears to be a layered series of something unexplained in the generator diagram and I guess that he expected everyone to understand the operation from the diagram!

It must have worked as I understand it was used even on a few American aircraft in WW-II.
Yours, M.L. Anderson

Did it work similiar to a sound power telephone for example?

2 November 2008, 02:00 PM	#7 (permalink)
m9a3r5i7o2n Two-seater Pilot Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Las Cruces New Mexico U.S.A. Posts: 184	C & C Gear. Quote from: Romani Ruritania Flieger Forgot to add that from mid 1917 onwards only the SE5 was under gunned, and not really by that much. The Constantinesco synchronizing gear in use by the Allies allowed for a higher rate of fire than the German system, coupled with the higher RoF of the unsynchronized Lewis, all things considered I estimate that the SE5 could put as much lead in the air as a pair of Spandaus. Question: Since you have come up with the Constantinescu (Inventor) and Colley (Instigator) Gear I am wondering just how much this unit was actually used as there seems to be two types one that used oil for the transmission of the sound power and one that used a wire to provide the timing. I have the one with the oil transmission but have not been able to find anyway to find the one with the wire sound transmission. It is really fascinating to try to figure just how this mechanism worked and how he got that much power from the sound that he claimed. One of the extremely fascinating things about the oil type is the seemingly lack of any type of sound (Generator) explanation! Just how did he get enough power through the oil/wire to actuate the timer? The generator appears to be a layered series of something unexplained in the generator diagram and I guess that he expected everyone to understand the operation from the diagram! It must have worked as I understand it was used even on a few American aircraft in WW-II. Yours, M.L. Anderson Did it work similiar to a sound power telephone for example? Last edited by m9a3r5i7o2n; 2 November 2008 at 03:05 PM.