Hawker Typhoon

[aeropilot]

saaby93 said:

Ayahuasca said:

Hold on, do the cylinders oscillate as well as the pistons?

Its not what I was expecting
I thought the cylinders rotated all the way round as the pistons slid up and down inside them
I didnt know they were operated by an arm so moved longitudinally and rotated back and for
Thats not to say that they didnt - just that I didnt realise it had that extra complexity
Amazing

Great animation here of the same principle in the Bristol Hercules radial.....lots of gear cogs!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrvep_YOio

[dr_gn]

It’s the sleeves that move within the cylinder block, and the pistons within the sleeves. There’s something slightly wrong with the timing of the animation I think - the gears don’t move at the same rate as the shafts.

[Ayahuasca]

It is the work of the devil. Imagine servicing that thing.

[Yertis]

It looks complex all at once, but if you focus on one cylinder it's amazingly simple with (if I'm correct) fewer moving parts than a conventional OHV engine.

But yes I'm sure it would be a bugger to service.