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Logistics in WWI aero engines

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  • 03-04-2005 1:16am
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    Capt'n Midnight
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    http://www.wwiaviation.com/engines/Clerget.shtml
    in 1917 the Sopwith Camel's airframe cost £874 10s. The Clerget engine that powered it cost £907 10s. The fact that the power unit usually cost more than the airframe is not always recognized.
    just another example of logistics being more important than tatics

    and rotary engines were weird - the crankshaft did not move, the engine did and some engines had pistons inside the cylinders...

    http://www.keveney.com/gnome.html 630KB


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    OfflerCrocGod
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    Why the surprise back then the airframes were made from wood right? In the middle of a war surely metal is much more expensive then wood, anyway an engine is more complex then an airframe.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Just a reminder that the economics can be an important resoruce too.

    In WWII the Mosquito was mostly wooden
    and the Battle of Britan was won because the Hurricane's used cloth wings and could take more punishment and be repaired faster than the Spitfires (Hurricanes shot down more enemy planes than all the other defenses put together)


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