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Gnome Lambda Rotary Engines

43.6k PlanesOfOld  5.5 years ago

Throttle controls are improved,

Engine starts on 1 and will cut out if 1 is de-activated allowing blipping (turning the engine on and of to rapidly lose speed)
Throttle is as usual, you just have to turn on the engine,
Hopefully this will make my WWI builds more user friendly.

You may use these for your builds, just make sure to credit me and tag me in the comments so I can see what you've made with it.

On the left is the Gnome 7 Lambda, One of the most succesful rotary engines of the first world war, And on the right is the Gnome 14 'Double Lambda' Basically two 7's attached to each other in a single crankcase as one engine, these werent as succesful as they had overheating problems, but they were used a bit. These engines were used on French and British planes In early WWI but most were replaced by the more powerful Gnome 9 Omega, These engines were also built by the German company Motorenfabrik Oberursel as Oberursel U.O (7 cyl) and the Oberursel U.III (14cyl) The U.O was used on planes such as the Fokker E.I And the U.III was used unsuccesfully on the Fokker E.IV, Due to the huge gyroscopic forces of the 14clyinder engine rotating at great speed the E.IV was very hard to control and notoriously hard to turn, one pilot called the E.IV 'A flying Engine'

General Characteristics

  • Successors 2 airplane(s)
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 37.7ft (11.5m)
  • Length 17.5ft (5.3m)
  • Height 13.9ft (4.2m)
  • Empty Weight 4,024lbs (1,825kg)
  • Loaded Weight 4,157lbs (1,885kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.144
  • Wing Loading 198.1lbs/ft2 (967.0kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 21.0ft2 (2.0m2)
  • Drag Points 8641

Parts

  • Number of Parts 991
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 2,662