Rotary engine (disambiguation)

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A rotary engine was a rotating piston engine used in some early aircraft.

Confusingly, the Wankel engine - a pistonless internal combustion engine used in NSU and some Mazda cars has also been referred to as a "rotary engine"

Rotary engine may also refer to:

  • Pistonless rotary engine - other proposed pistonless internal combustion engines
  • Turbine - a rotary engine that extract energy from a fluid flow
  • Windmill - a rotary engine that extract energy from wind
  • Waterwheel a rotary engines that extract energy from water