Significance... yeah... the first aluminum engine ever! And isn't that the one from the 1903 Flyer?
Well... it did enable the brothers to take flight and all... was that the significance you were looking for?
Cast by the Dayton Foundry... Charley Taylor was the Wright's machinist?
The original 1903 engine had no fuel pump, oil pump, spark plugs, egr valves, catalytic converters or any of that mumbo jumbo... It did use magnetos and a super simple timing system of contacts driven off a cam shaft.
The next model, the 1904 engine was the same cast, but they added a fuel pump and an oil pump... am I getting closer or am I trying to pee on the third rail?
Damn my spelling! And hey, I care about the Wright brothers! And I care about Charlie Taylor! Without all parties collaborating, it wouldn't have been a successful flight.
I've heard the reproduction run, but only through TV. Have you heard it in person?
The engine Charles Taylor built for the Wrights was 4 cylinders, weighed around 200lbs, displaced around 200 cubic inches and put out around 12 horsepower. In not too many years Continental would build the O-200, it's 4 cylinders, weighs around 200lbs, displaces 200 cubic inches, and puts out 100 horsepower
if only we had kept up that level of progress...
and back then, like today, everyone only cares about the pilots... some things never change!
The engine Charles Taylor built for the Wrights was 4 cylinders, weighed around 200lbs, displaced around 200 cubic inches and put out around 12 horsepower. In not too many years Continental would build the O-200, it's 4 cylinders, weighs around 200lbs, displaces 200 cubic inches, and puts out 100 horsepower
Where is it? Damn, after all these questions, I feel dumb to ask that one...