Aerospace Engines A to Z
Aerospace Engines A to Z

Updated: 13-Mar-2019

HELLMUTH HIRTH

(Germany)


Together with his brother Ernst he founded Hirth Motoren, which we will see in another chapter. It seems that they made some engines just before or at the time that they started their motor activities with the famous HM-60. In the early 1920's. See Hirth.

H. Hirth engine
“H. Hirth engine”

-It is a two-stroke radial engine, rather a cross one. Each cylinder group had two cylinders linked by their combustion chamber. Admission was made through the base of one cylinder and the exhaust through the base of the other.

Double cylinder principle
"Double cylinder principle"

-As we see, the weight of the double connecting rod and piston required a counterweighted crankshaft.

-Here in Spain this operation principle we saw in the Italian "Iso" motorcycle engines, which were built here under license as well. At the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace in Paris there is a sectioned engine with this system.

The author of this edition of Aeroengines AtoZ, through Aeroteca, collaborated on Version 2 of this video, which is presented here.

To understand the operation of the connecting rods, the 1929 Continental R 670 single-cylinder engine was chosen.

A demonstration of Version 3, improved at the author's suggestion, is also available on YouTube at a later date. This version shows bronze valve guides, improved valve spring movement, and the split crankshaft counterweights and front bearing balls also move.

The design is from Juan Soler, Sant Cugat, Barcelona

Below we show a flash of version 3

Counting also with the coloboration of JMC of Enginys Mecanics in Mataro, Barcelona