Pilot's Perspective: Fokker DVIII | Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome 

So glad you enjoy them!

@@OldRhinebeckAerodrome is that the original engine? Incredible sound!

We definitely have more on the way!

We hope to see you again in the spring!

You had to be there.

These rotary engines lacks an oil sump, therefore they must run on 2 cycle mix. At the time castrol oil was used

A very complicated question. Depends on the materials and their application. For example we cover with modern materials as they are not toxic and will not burn. Spruce spar is a spruce spar.

evidently theyre wicked easy and stable... $~7k for the kit minus engine

The guns are synchronized so that they do not fire when the propellor blades are in front of the muzzles-cams and levers.

Possibly a blip switch? It disconnects half the spark plugs the and allows the plane to glide uncovered in quick bursts before planes were equipped with throttles. For some it was 100% power or none at all. The engine shouldn't die as long as the rpms of the radial don't get too low.

@@kaseyfreudenstein4970 in my flight sim it has a throttle and im sure that is correct cause its really authentic

@@sebastianbombasti7554 In reality, these engines did technically have a throttle, but it would take about 30 seconds to tune the engine properly to make sure that it runs without stalling at the right settings for that throttle. So in real life, the way that people flew them, was to use a mag switch that would shut off half of the mags or all of the mags and they would use the blip switch to basically throttle it by going on and off. For long distance cruises they did have a throttle but once you adjust the throttle you have to spend a lot of work and tuning and it was very finicky to get right, so when flying in formation you could adjust the throttle a very teeny teeny teeny tiny bit at a time in order to match your speed but in real world flying when making turns in maneuvers and when landing, you would just use the blip system at full throttle because then you only would have to tune it once. You couldn't just adjust the throttle and keep the engine running, just moving the throttle would pretty much instantly kill the engine or flood it