The concept of the rotary engine (the whole engine running around a fix crankshaft) is a french innovation. 
Although rotaries where made in UK, Italia and Germany, the french ones where seen as the best ones; to the extent that french engines (removed from crashed planes) where fitted to German aircrafts. 
The last Fokker Dr. I of Manfred von Richtofen had a french engine! And Clerget engines where (and still are) the most sought after french engine of WWI
 
 
      
      
     
      
       
        
         
          
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          The concept of the rotary engine (the whole engine running around a fix crankshaft) is a french innovation. 
Although rotaries where made in UK, Italia and Germany, the french ones where seen as the best ones; to the extent that french engines (removed from crashed planes) where fitted to German aircrafts. 
The last Fokker Dr. I of Manfred von Richtofen had a french engine! And Clerget engines where (and still are) the most sought after french engine of WWI
 
 
         
         
        
        
         
          The concept of the rotary engine (the whole engine running around a fix crankshaft) is a french innovation. 
Although rotaries where made in UK, Italia and Germany, the french ones where seen as the best ones; to the extent that french engines (removed from crashed planes) where fitted to German aircrafts. 
The last Fokker Dr. I of Manfred von Richtofen had a french engine! And Clerget engines where (and still are) the most sought after french engine of WWI
 
 
         
         
        
        
         
          The concept of the rotary engine (the whole engine running around a fix crankshaft) is a french innovation. 
Although rotaries where made in UK, Italia and Germany, the french ones where seen as the best ones; to the extent that french engines (removed from crashed planes) where fitted to German aircrafts. 
The last Fokker Dr. I of Manfred von Richtofen had a french engine! And Clerget engines where (and still are) the most sought after french engine of WWI
 
 
         
         
        
        
       
      
     
     
     
      
       The concept of the rotary engine (the whole engine running around a fix crankshaft) is a french innovation. 
Although rotaries where made in UK, Italia and Germany, the french ones where seen as the best ones; to the extent that french engines (removed from crashed planes) where fitted to German aircrafts. 
The last Fokker Dr. I of Manfred von Richtofen had a french engine! And Clerget engines where (and still are) the most sought after french engine of WWI
 
 
      
      
     
      
       
        
         
          
           Join us - Volunteer Information
          
         
         
        
         
          The concept of the rotary engine (the whole engine running around a fix crankshaft) is a french innovation. 
Although rotaries where made in UK, Italia and Germany, the french ones where seen as the best ones; to the extent that french engines (removed from crashed planes) where fitted to German aircrafts. 
The last Fokker Dr. I of Manfred von Richtofen had a french engine! And Clerget engines where (and still are) the most sought after french engine of WWI
 
 
         
         
        
        
       
      
     
     
     
      
       The concept of the rotary engine (the whole engine running around a fix crankshaft) is a french innovation. 
Although rotaries where made in UK, Italia and Germany, the french ones where seen as the best ones; to the extent that french engines (removed from crashed planes) where fitted to German aircrafts. 
The last Fokker Dr. I of Manfred von Richtofen had a french engine! And Clerget engines where (and still are) the most sought after french engine of WWI
 
 
      
      
     
      
       The concept of the rotary engine (the whole engine running around a fix crankshaft) is a french innovation. 
Although rotaries where made in UK, Italia and Germany, the french ones where seen as the best ones; to the extent that french engines (removed from crashed planes) where fitted to German aircrafts. 
The last Fokker Dr. I of Manfred von Richtofen had a french engine! And Clerget engines where (and still are) the most sought after french engine of WWI