Wankel rotary engine powered thousands of aircraft. One of several problems: It spewed castor oil on its pilots.

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While modern engines feature many tweaks and improvements on the original ideas, they usually aren't as interesting as the strange contraptions engineers experimented with in the early days. Take, for ...