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Old 03-28-2017, 05:27 AM   #9
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Default Re: Off Topic, 1918 the building of wooden airplanes

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Very cool Ol' Ron, I'm an old Machinist so especially enjoyed the over head leather power belts running multiple machines from a common shaft above. The V12 crankcase looked to be aluminum? Pretty advanced for the time.
Aluminum crankcase advanced for the time? Not really, because the Wright Brothers 4 cyl crankcase was aluminum.
Back in 1965 I was fortunate enough to be able to fabricate parts of and assemble the replica engine that sits in the museum in North Carolina.
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