Re: Airplanes - Engines - Aircraft Testing Field

Posted by Guscha On 2019/10/25 23:00:43

Mal, Wikipedia about Wikipedia: "Wikipedia has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, for presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods"

White Triplex land speed record car, showing the three engines, source: Wikipedia


According to Stuart D. Brandes, author of Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America, University Press of Kentucky, 2015, ISBN 0813157609, 9780813157603, 384 pages, the government paid for the facilities for the production of the Liberty motor. (scroll down to page 161 / 162).

Pic #5 below shows the manual ignition advance and hand throttle.

source: U.S. National Archives; -> Public Domain Archive
Copyright info: no known copyright restrictions
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