The Technology Of High-Speed Flight
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1. A New Spin One of the first engines built and produced specifically for aircraft use was the Gnome rotary engine, designed in 1907 by France’s Laurent Seguin. The Gnome was a radial engine in which the crankshaft was rigidly mounted to the airplane and the rest of the engine spun with the...
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