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bill-loveland
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    Probably a master rod with link rods – the only variant I’ve seen is the early twenties "slipper rod" style – the Glen Curtiss museum in Hammondsport had a cutaway Rhone Rotary – a radial in which the cylinders rotated en masse – with slipper rods.

    I’m dying to know what the power impulses are – does this thing fire each cylinder sequentially – five power impulses per rotation? Seems like balancing would be a challenge.