Ron Wanttaja wrote:

They *did* have an actual rotary on a stand, in one of the
ground-maintenance
sequences.

And to *really* pick nits, when the maintenance guy rotated it, it
looked like it had the mass of an 18" fan blade & no compression or
friction resistance. :-)


Hi Ron, I was once a volunteer custodian at a local museum that had a Le
Rhone, I gave it a spin one day, to watch the valve action and to try to
understand the ignition. Even with plugs in they spin pretty easy.