Fake Rotaries

CodyPaul · 12 November 2003, 03:14 PM

I remember reading a long time ago about a false rotary front for WW I replicas that Frank Ryder had developed. Never been able to find out anything about them. Then I saw this picture on another thread. It stated that the triplane was powered by a 165 Lycoming. Does anyone know anything about the rotary front? Are the still made and sold anywhere?

CodyPaul · 12 November 2003, 03:18 PM

Sorry, don't know whats wrong with the picture. If you click on it another window will open with a better picture that can actually be seen.

jumpinjan · 13 November 2003, 12:03 AM

Did you attach the picture? It has the height attribute included of 60 some pixels which flattened it down a lot. Some way strip off the picture attributes and it should look fine.
You know, I also recently seen that same picture too. If it had a real rotary, the prop would surely be larger, so yes, it probably does have a dummy LeRone rotary. Very clever
Jan

wolfenbill · 13 November 2003, 06:30 AM

It looks good from certain angles, but from others it is obvious that the nose is way too long.

Lyle · 13 November 2003, 08:28 AM

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It looks good from certain angles, but from others it is obvious that the nose is way too long. *

All these rotary jobs suffer from cowl-excess when they use the Lycoming. John Shively was building a Camel for Ryder and had moved the firewall back because of the excessive depth of the Lycoming O-320. An interesting solution...I wonder if the CG was affected much by that re-engineering.

CodyPaul · 13 November 2003, 05:42 PM

How did he move the firewall back, the engines already in the pilots lap. Pretty close anyway. Seems like it would be better to scale up a little bit if you're going to use a modern engine in a Camel.