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