Posts by rds 2 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Sep 2013
What you are thinking of is a Wankel engine.
Rotary engines are similar in build to radial engines but the crankshaft is fixed and the block rotates. These were commonly used on WW1 era aircraft as the rotation of the block ensured good cooling but there is a limit to how large / fast reving you can make them before they fly apart.
Had some local hoodlums slice through two bundles of phone cables. OK not really BT's fault but trying to find out from their customer "service" people what the issue was... I raised a fault call online (yay for mobile broadband) and all I got back was an text with a resolution time and then a revised (later) resolution time. So I phoned customer service to find out what the issue was and how long it was going to be. Bearing in mind that this affected about two hundred lines on this exchange, you would think that they would say "Oh there is an issue with that exchange we are working on it". But no, they hadn't got a clue (this is about five days into the fault). Promised to call me back and never did. Called again, still no idea, promised to have a manager call me back, Nada. I only found out what the issue was by reading the weekly free paper.
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