https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5acbb5ff-ea32-48d4-8a6f-0b54cd140fa4 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This short 1970s film "Air-Cooled Engine-Uity" is actually a promo for Volkswagen of North America, demonstrating the reliability and functionality of its air cooled engines. The film features footage of the Volksplane VP-1, a single seat aircraft powered by a 40 hp VW engine. The Volksplane was designed by W.S. Evans, and first flew in 1968. At 1:01 the plane is shown landing at Pinkerton Aviation, where Evans' VW Beetle waits on the tarmac. At 1:30, Evans speaks to an admirer and shows off the plans for the VP-1. It's bare angular look is due to the designer’s aim to build a simple plane where appearance and performance were of secondary importance. At 1:58, the aircraft is shown in flight (aerobatics were not permitted in the VP-1). At 2:54, rear-engined VW dune buggies drive off-road through snow-covered landscapes. At 4:23, an air cushion vehicle or hovercraft powered by a VW engine is shown. At 5:50, a Whirly-bug gyrocopter tail N2747 is shown with the same air cooled VW engine. Inventor Bill Brown of Rialto, California. (This aircraft is also known as a Benson Gyroplane or Benson B-8M Gyro-Copter.) The Volkswagen air-cooled engine is an air-cooled, gasoline-fuelled, boxer engine with four horizontally opposed cast-iron cylinders, cast aluminum alloy cylinder heads and pistons, magnesium-alloy crankcase, and forged steel crankshaft and connecting rods. There are two distinct families/variations of the aircooled engine namely Type 1 and Type 4. The Type 3 engine is a variation of the Type 1 engine with pancake cooling arrangement. Variations of the engine were produced by Volkswagen plants worldwide from 1936 until 2006 for use in Volkswagen's own vehicles, notably the Type 1 (Beetle), Type 2 (bus, transporter), Type 3, and Type 4. Additionally, the engines were widely used in industrial, light aircraft and kit car applications. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl4RK_DB_aE Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:45:37 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5acbb5ff-ea32-48d4-8a6f-0b54cd140fa4 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.