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    The Monosoupape (French for single-valve), was a rotary engine design first introduced in 1913 by Gnome Engine Company (renamed Gnome et Rhône in 1915)...
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    100 hp (75 kW) Gnome Delta in 1914 (also called the Gnome Monosoupape as it used that type of engine design for the first time). Gnome also tried a 14-cylinder...
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    rated power at 1,200 rpm. The later 160 hp nine-cylinder Gnome 9N rotary engine used the Monosoupape valve design while adding the safety factor of a dual...
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    Le Rhône (category Gnome-Rhône aircraft engines)
    outselling Gnome et Rhône's other main wartime engine series, the Gnome Monosoupape. Licenses for production of Le Rhône series engines were negotiated...
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    powerplant) Clerget 9Bf, 140 hp Le Rhône 9J, 110 hp Gnome Monosoupape 9B-2, 100 hp Gnome Monosoupape 9N, 160 hp The F.1 was the main production version...
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    generally weaker structure than the S-6. They had either an 80 hp Gnome Monosoupape or a 100 hp Argus Motoren engine. Some were deployed on the world's...
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    The Gnome 7 Omega (commonly called the Gnome 50 hp) is a French seven-cylinder, air-cooled aero engine produced by Gnome et Rhône. It was shown at the...
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    The Gnome-Rhône 14N was a 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine designed and manufactured by Gnome-Rhône just before the start of World War II...
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    competition with the SPAD XIII, which it was built as a back-up for. Its Gnome Monosoupape 9N 160 CV rotary engine was mounted in a circular open-front cowling...
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    in the early 1920s, usually powered by Russian-made copies of the Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine. This Russian version of the 504 was replaced by what...
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    Home Defence Pups standardised on the more powerful 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome Monosoupape, which provided an improved rate of climb. These aircraft were distinguishable...
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    B.2. This was a two-bay biplane powered by a single 80 hp (60 kW) Gnome Monosoupape nine-cylinder rotary engine; the aircraft had a steel tube structure...
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    100 hp Gnome Monosoupape 7 Type A 80 hp 110 mm × 150 mm (4.3 in × 5.9 in) Gnome Monosoupape 9 Type B-2 100 hp 110 mm × 150 mm (4.3 in × 5.9 in) Gnome Monosoupape...
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    The Gnome 9 Delta was a French designed, nine-cylinder, air-cooled rotary aero engine that was produced under license in Britain. Powering several World...
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    The Gnome-Rhône 14K Mistral Major was a 14-cylinder, two-row, air-cooled radial engine. It was Gnome-Rhône's major aircraft engine prior to World War II...
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    The Gnome 7 Lambda was a French designed, seven-cylinder, air-cooled rotary aero engine that was produced under license in Britain and Germany. Powering...
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    The Gnome-Rhône 14M was a small 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine that was used on several French and German aircraft of World War II. While...
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  • tractor made from 1939 to 1941 9N, a model of Fordson tractor Gnome 9N, a model of Gnome Monosoupape Lorraine 9N Algol, a model of Lorraine Algol Typ 9n, internal...
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    (75 kW) Gnome Monosoupape 9 Type B-2 had to be substituted, this allowing the first aircraft to fly in August 1915. Testing showed that the two Gnome engines...
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    Oberursel U.I 9-cylinder rotary engine, a close copy of the French Gnôme Monosoupape rotary of the same power output, in place of the E.I's 60 kW (80 hp)...
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    Clergets. The remaining 821 aircraft were powered by either Le Rhône or Gnome Monosoupape engines. The BR.1 was developed as the BR.2, a heavier, more powerful...
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    differed in the engine installed, with the type B using a 75 kW (100 hp) Gnome Monosoupape and the type C using a 97 kW (130 hp) Clerget 9B. The RNAS contracted...
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    the tail. Powered by two M-2 powerplants, up-rated copies of the Gnome Monosoupape 9 Type B-2 100 CV output rotary engine of World War I, the TsAGI 1-EA...
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    target. The majority of DH.2s were powered by the 100 hp (75 kW) Gnôme Monosoupape nine-cylinder, air-cooled rotary engine, however later models received...
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    installation of the Vickers-Challenger synchroniser gear. The 100-hp Gnome Monosoupape engine gave a relatively slow speed, and the relatively low cockpit...
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    overhauled about every 20 hours. The reliability of Gnome engines license-built by The British Gnome and Le Rhone Engine Co. was improved with an overhaul...
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    rotary engines, including the Gnome and Le Rhône engines with power ranging from 50 hp Gnomes to 100 hp Gnome Monosoupape. Early Bristol T.B.8s used wing...
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    floatplane adaptation was prepared, to be powered by a 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome Monosoupape, which T.O.M. Sopwith personally collected from Paris. This was initially...
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    in 1931 in the Soviet Union, used a pair of uprated, Russian-built Gnome Monosoupape rotary engines of 120 hp each for its power. For later flights of...
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    in flight, but only on the ground. A single 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome 9 "Type B2" Monosoupape rotary engine driving a four-bladed propeller powered the aircraft...
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