Wikipedia says the Wright Brothers' mechanic Charles E. Taylor designed and built the aluminum-copper, water-cooled, four-cylinder aircraft engine in only six weeks, based partly on rough sketches provided by the Wrights.
Thank you. That was something to see/hear. It's hard to fully appreciate the effort put into that these days since a single cylinder 4 stroke 12 hp engine at 33 kgs (72 kbs) can be ordered online.
Amazing the Brothers built this in their bike shop over a century ago. Sadly, that very shop is facing demolition for lack of maintenance and funding. Someone in Congress or a wealthy citizen should save that iconic building from destruction.
Charlie Taylor who built the wrights engine , made the crank from a block of steel, and drilled holes and broke chunks out, to get a crude roughly crank shape. That could then be put in a lathe, it only took him 6 weeks to build the engine from scratch! With better valves and a intake cam, a( more modern carburetor, from say the 1920's like from a Model A ford );modern carburetor , I'm betting it could mske 25-30 hp, get a bit of overlap on the valves. Use the exhaust to pull in air to the cylinder from the intake, this could possibly be simulated by using weak springs on the intake, and making the valve heavier, so the leaving exhaust can possibly pull the intake valve open just before the piston passes tdc! And adding a simple oil pump to spray every with oil, and if it burns a exhaust valve , then it must not been sealing completely, the slightest hole or gap exposed to combustion, it will quickly start cutting like a torch! A blown head gasket can cut a notch out of the block and or head, But the engine can be made lighter, drill out the center of the rod journals, Possibly the main journals, lighten the pistons and rods, allowing for much lighter counterweights. And lighten the flywheel, put the majority of weight on the outer edge, so it can still store enough energy, it would be awesome if this could be a compression ignition oil burner! Beef up the crank and block a bit. Raise the compression to about 20:1. And thicker dome pistons, with oil squirters, and a oil cooler, design a light weight high pressure low volume fuel sprayer/injector, this injection could possibly be more efficient than the most modern engines, cleaner and more mpg, I think it could still make more than 12hp, and lots more TQ! Possibly 20hp and 50-60 ftlbs TQ! Allowing higher over driven gear ratio, spinning the props just as fast lower engine speeds, using a variable prop, use a governor to maintain RPM, keeping the props at speed, only change the angle of attack to regulate thrust, possibly mount a small flywheel on the shaft with the prop, to reduce stalling from sudden attack angle changes, but it's easy to say this when you have history to look at and learn from, being the first to do something is difficult!! Charlie Taylor and the wrights were awesome! ✌️
doesn't exist. What is with you people who refuse to accept that the Wright Brothers were leagues ahead of everyone else when it came to aerodynamics? They had the key to sustaining powered flight. The rest were fighting themselves and trying to force something to fly that couldn't produce enough lift to do it.
@ powered CONTROLLED flight I think is the key. There might have been one or 2 guys who flung themselves off a hill in some contraption that generated a bit of lift but without control it would have been useless. The Wrights I pioneered control. First with gliders, then with a powered aircraft. And they documented it. Eye witness accounts are always the most unreliable form of historical archive. The Wrights understood this too. The rest of these guys like Whitehead and Santos Dumont have been discarded in the waste bin of history for a very good reason. And it’s not American exceptionalism. In fact Americans largely ignored the Brothers’ accomplishments until they became household names in Europe.
I recall an early 60’s “Mr. Science” type show in discussing the Wrights fashioned a carburetor from a Tomato Can. I remembered that aspect after 60 years. Maybe someone can conform the carburetor account.
this 12hp motor was bought when they went to france. No one in history never saw something comming off the ground with their original 8hp which they claimmed as making 53km flights back in the countryside.
@@gabrieldegois8687 So it is. Allied to this finding of aeronautical engineering, even the modern one, together with the little evidence of the first flights, it is difficult to believe that they flew first.
This video needs to be corrected to give Gustave Whitehead the credit for flying 2 years before the WRONG BROTHERS, and he did it in Bridgeport Connecticut in 1901. Whitehead may have even flown as early as 1899.!!
Wikipedia says the Wright Brothers' mechanic Charles E. Taylor designed and built the aluminum-copper, water-cooled, four-cylinder aircraft engine in only six weeks, based partly on rough sketches provided by the Wrights.
Thank you. That was something to see/hear. It's hard to fully appreciate the effort put into that these days since a single cylinder 4 stroke 12 hp engine at 33 kgs (72 kbs) can be ordered online.
A 120cc rc airplane engine makes around 12hp, and weighs less than 6lb, just revs a lot higher (mine does 7,500rpm).
Imagine the skills of the engine builder and machinist back in the day.
Certain better than the skills of the camera person...jiggle jiggle jiggle...I was getting a headache.
Amazing the Brothers built this in their bike shop over a century ago. Sadly, that very shop is facing demolition for lack of maintenance and funding. Someone in Congress or a wealthy citizen should save that iconic building from destruction.
I thought the shop was moved to a museum?
Lubrication was more of a suggestion back then
with no lube wouldn't the eng size up?
It seems they mounted the camera to the crankshaft as well
It sounds like a proper aircraft engine -very similar to WW1 era engines. Brilliant. Thanks for this...
Charlie made the crank shaft by hand
Charlie Taylor who built the wrights engine , made the crank from a block of steel, and drilled holes and broke chunks out, to get a crude roughly crank shape. That could then be put in a lathe, it only took him 6 weeks to build the engine from scratch! With better valves and a intake cam, a( more modern carburetor, from say the 1920's like from a Model A ford );modern carburetor , I'm betting it could mske 25-30 hp, get a bit of overlap on the valves. Use the exhaust to pull in air to the cylinder from the intake, this could possibly be simulated by using weak springs on the intake, and making the valve heavier, so the leaving exhaust can possibly pull the intake valve open just before the piston passes tdc! And adding a simple oil pump to spray every with oil, and if it burns a exhaust valve , then it must not been sealing completely, the slightest hole or gap exposed to combustion, it will quickly start cutting like a torch! A blown head gasket can cut a notch out of the block and or head,
But the engine can be made lighter, drill out the center of the rod journals,
Possibly the main journals, lighten the pistons and rods, allowing for much lighter counterweights. And lighten the flywheel, put the majority of weight on the outer edge, so it can still store enough energy, it would be awesome if this could be a compression ignition oil burner! Beef up the crank and block a bit. Raise the compression to about 20:1. And thicker dome pistons, with oil squirters, and a oil cooler, design a light weight high pressure low volume fuel sprayer/injector, this injection could possibly be more efficient than the most modern engines, cleaner and more mpg, I think it could still make more than 12hp, and lots more TQ! Possibly 20hp and 50-60 ftlbs TQ! Allowing higher over driven gear ratio, spinning the props just as fast lower engine speeds, using a variable prop, use a governor to maintain RPM, keeping the props at speed, only change the angle of attack to regulate thrust, possibly mount a small flywheel on the shaft with the prop, to reduce stalling from sudden attack angle changes, but it's easy to say this when you have history to look at and learn from, being the first to do something is difficult!!
Charlie Taylor and the wrights were awesome! ✌️
just awesome. the sound of the engine plus the abilities of the flyer would have made the first powered flight attempts very scary.
Did they fire up a replica of Gustave Whitehead's engine that flew 2 years before the Wright Brothers in 1901 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. ??
yes it must have because someone drew a picture of it
doesn't exist. What is with you people who refuse to accept that the Wright Brothers were leagues ahead of everyone else when it came to aerodynamics? They had the key to sustaining powered flight. The rest were fighting themselves and trying to force something to fly that couldn't produce enough lift to do it.
@ powered CONTROLLED flight I think is the key. There might have been one or 2 guys who flung themselves off a hill in some contraption that generated a bit of lift but without control it would have been useless. The Wrights I pioneered control. First with gliders, then with a powered aircraft. And they documented it. Eye witness accounts are always the most unreliable form of historical archive. The Wrights understood this too. The rest of these guys like Whitehead and Santos Dumont have been discarded in the waste bin of history for a very good reason. And it’s not American exceptionalism. In fact Americans largely ignored the Brothers’ accomplishments until they became household names in Europe.
That’s so cool!
I recall an early 60’s “Mr. Science” type show in discussing the Wrights fashioned a carburetor from a Tomato Can. I remembered that aspect after 60 years. Maybe someone can conform the carburetor account.
It never had a carburetor.
@@FarmerFpv a 60.5 year “Oh”.
@@davidcouch6514 Basically just gravity-fed fuel into the "intake manifold."
how did the ignition work if there were no spark plugs?
a metal pin flowing electricity would gap at the right moment causing a spark in the gap
So cool!
Probably burn the exhaust valve up because of the difference in fuel over 115 years.
Have u heard abt shivkar ji ?
Thought O. Wright was dead.
he died in 1948. Wilbur in 1912.
I like that Orville made it long enough to see the jet engine invented.
The Times can't afford a tripod or microphone?
Alguém já voou com uma réplica do Flier e um motor de 12 HP?
this 12hp motor was bought when they went to france. No one in history never saw something comming off the ground with their original 8hp which they claimmed as making 53km flights back in the countryside.
@@gabrieldegois8687 So it is. Allied to this finding of aeronautical engineering, even the modern one, together with the little evidence of the first flights, it is difficult to believe that they flew first.
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This video needs to be corrected to give Gustave Whitehead the credit for flying 2 years before the WRONG BROTHERS, and he did it in Bridgeport Connecticut in 1901. Whitehead may have even flown as early as 1899.!!
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