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Old 05-05-2014, 03:38 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by elhigh View Post
It is an old aircraft engine. The LeRhone goes back to the early 1900s.

I'm trying to remember the engine where the shaft was actually fixed to the firewall and the engine spun with the prop. I imagine overheating wasn't a big issue on that one. Can anyone tell me what that was?
You must mean the Bentley BR2 Rotary Aero Engine.

Yeah, I just wrote "Airplane" and copied and pasted your description into Google!
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