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Originally posted by Mogster:
From the discussion in the Camel vid thread It seems that WW1 rotary engined aircraft didn't have a true throttle just an on off magneto switch. Will this feature of old rotaries be modelled in KOTS? It could be a difficultly option I suppose.
Actually it is not quite true.

On such rotaryes as Crerget, LeRhone (Oberursel) Bentley - there was throttle (air flow into carburettor) and mixture (fuel flow into carburettor) levers.

BUT there also was Gnome engine, wich had NO carburettor at all, imagine that \:\)
It had spray-tube inside air tube, so fuel-air mass mas mixed "as is" and sucked into the engine. Gnome actually had "fixed" position throttle - reostat, which one where setted up to interrup magnetto in the way to 25%-50%-75%-100%, so actually at the position 25% there was only 2x cylinders have ignition on them (i can be incorrect in the number of cylinders - cant remember it at the moment).
The fuel control was only on and off.

Both of types have blip button - ignition interrupter. It was implemented due to high idle RPM`s of rotaryes ~600-700 of 1100-1300 max (~50% of power/thrust) to make easyer such stages as taxing/landing to put lower thrust by ignition interrupt.

Cant say for 100% about how we will make it at the moment, but we will try to;) no promisses


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