Starting WW2 Era Russischer Sternmotor Radial Engine

radxsays...

That looks an awful lot like the engine of those early engine-with-wings types of planes, like a Poli I-16 or a Brewster Buffalo.

By the way, "russischer Sternmotor" is just "Russian radial engine" in German.

articiansays...

Does anyone know what the mechanism is behind that high-pitched, start-up whine? I love that sound but realized I don't actually know what causes it. It didn't look like it had enough RPM to be friction.

Mordhaussays...

Fuel pump.

articiansaid:

Does anyone know what the mechanism is behind that high-pitched, start-up whine? I love that sound but realized I don't actually know what causes it. It didn't look like it had enough RPM to be friction.

Mordhausjokingly says...

I failed German in college.

radxsaid:

That looks an awful lot like the engine of those early engine-with-wings types of planes, like a Poli I-16 or a Brewster Buffalo.

By the way, "russischer Sternmotor" is just "Russian radial engine" in German.

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