The BMW VI was a water-cooled V-12 aircraft engine built in Germany in the 1920s. It was one of the most important German aero engines in the years leading...
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BMW has been producing engines for automobiles, motorcycles and aircraft since 1917, when the company began production of an inline-six aircraft engine...
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Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, trading as BMW Group (commonly abbreviated to BMW (German pronunciation: [ˌbeːʔɛmˈveː] ), sometimes anglicised as Bavarian...
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The BMW VII was a water-cooled twelve-cylinder engine derived from the successful BMW VI. The engine was not as popular as the VI, due in no small part...
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biplane of relatively standard construction. Both the Rolls-Royce Kestrel and BMW VI selected to power the type proved to be inferior in terms of high altitude...
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2x BMW VI engines. – Dornier Do 16 Do J IId Wal 2x BMW VI engines. – Militär-Wal Do J IIe 16 Bos Wal 2x BMW VI engines Do J IIf Bos Wal 2x BMW VI U engines...
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its speed reached 380 km/h (240 mph) when powered by a 447 kW (599 hp) BMW VI engine. The He 70 had an elliptical wing, which the Günther brothers had...
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The BMW 801 was a powerful German 41.8-litre (2,550 cu in) air-cooled 14-cylinder-radial aircraft engine built by BMW and used in a number of German Luftwaffe...
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The BMW 132 was a nine-cylinder radial aircraft engine produced by BMW starting in 1933. BMW took over a license for manufacturing air-cooled radial engines...
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The BMW 803 was a German aircraft engine, an attempt by BMW to build a high-output aircraft engine by coupling two BMW 801 engines back-to-back, driving...
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retractable undercarriage. The He 70 was powered by a single nose-mounted BMW VI 7.3 Z engine and cooled via a relatively compact retractable radiator as...
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The BMW 003 (full RLM designation 109-003) is an early axial turbojet engine produced by BMW AG in Germany during World War II. The 003 and the Junkers...
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The Mikulin M-17 was a Soviet-licensed copy of the German BMW VI V-12 liquid-cooled aircraft piston engine, further developed by Alexander Mikulin and...
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November 1934, the Do 17 V1, with a single fin and powered by a pair of BMW VI 7.3 motors, took off on its maiden flight. Testing was delayed by a series...
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As originally built it had two conjoined BMW IV 6-cylinder petrol aircraft engines (later a single BMW VI 12-cylinder of 600 horsepower (450 kW)) driving...
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Focke-Wulf A 29, a variant of the 1927 German Focke-Wulf A 17 airliner with a BMW VI engine A-29, another name of the Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano A29 road (England)...
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The BMW 802 was a large air-cooled radial aircraft engine, built using two rows of nine cylinders to produce what was essentially an 18-cylinder version...
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but the prototype was powered by two 373 kW (500 hp) – 529 kW (709 hp) BMW VI engines. The first flight of the ANT-7 took place on 11 September 1929,...
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413 BMW VI V-12 water-cooled BMW 112 V-12 water-cooled, (prototype) BMW 114 9-cylinder radial diesel, combined air-water-cooled (prototypes) BMW 116 V-12...
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underpowered with its 492 kW (660 hp) BMW VI engine. The second prototype had a more powerful version of the BMW engine, but this only marginally improved...
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all-metal construction and fabric covering. It was powered by a glycol-cooled BMW VI engine, with an armament of two 7.92 mm (0.312 in) machine guns mounted...
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The BMW X is a small five-cylinder radial engine for sport and training aircraft. Although this engine proved successful at several large-scale events...
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need to find a replacement for the expensive imported Lion engines, the BMW VI (and later the Soviet licence-built version, the Mikulin M-17). Production...
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BMW IIIa was an inline six-cylinder SOHC valvetrain, water-cooled aircraft engine, the first-ever engine produced by Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, who...
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The BMW 018 (RLM designation 109-018) was an early axial-flow turbojet engine project by BMW AG in Germany. The 018 design was begun in 1940. It was generally...
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The BMW IV was a six-cylinder, water-cooled inline aircraft engine built in Germany in the 1920s. Power was in the 180 kW (250 hp) range. On 17 June 1919...
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Bristol Jupiter VI nine-cylinder radial. First flight in 1930. One built Ar 64b Only two built, powered by a 477 kW (640 hp) BMW VI 6.3 12-cylinder V-type...
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licence by Gotha, Focke-Wulf, and BFW. He 45a First prototype, powered by a BMW VI 7,3Z piston engine. He 45b Second prototype, fitted with four-blade propeller...
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wings with a steel-tube fuselage, and was powered by a 750 hp (600 kW) BMW VI engine. The single prototype flew in 1931. It was evaluated against the...
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wings and fixed tailwheel landing gear and was powered by a 470 kW (630 hp) BMW VI engine. After 180 aircraft were built, production continued with a structurally...
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