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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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    cutting the ignition using a "blip" switch. This was only true of the "Monosoupape" (single valve) type, which took most of the air into the cylinder through...
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    outselling Gnome et Rhône's other main wartime engine series, the Gnome Monosoupape. Licenses for production of Le Rhône series engines were negotiated with...
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    200 hp) Gnome Monosoupape Gnome Monosoupape 7 Type A:(1916) 80 hp (60 kW) Gnome Monosoupape 9 Type B-2:(1916) 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome Monosoupape 9 Type N:(1917)...
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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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    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 would...
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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. It...
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    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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    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 first...
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    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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    Compression ratio: 5:1 Comparable engines Bentley BR1 Clerget 9B Gnome Monosoupape Related lists List of aircraft engines Hartmann, Gerard (2004). "Moteurs...
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    timing Manifold pressure Mean effective pressure Naturally aspirated Monosoupape Overhead camshaft Overhead valve engine Rotary engine Shock cooling Stroke...
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    14-cyl rotary Delta Delta-Delta Gamma Gamma-Gamma Monosoupape 7 Type A Monosoupape 9 Type B-2 Monosoupape 9 Type N Omega Omega-Omega Lambda Lambda-Lambda...
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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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    14-cyl rotary Delta Delta-Delta Gamma Gamma-Gamma Monosoupape 7 Type A Monosoupape 9 Type B-2 Monosoupape 9 Type N Omega Omega-Omega Lambda Lambda-Lambda...
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    Hispano-Suiza 8 and Mercedes D.III, and even rotary engines as the later Gnome Monosoupape model 9N 160 hp (119 kW) versions featured twin spark plugs per cylinder...
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    14-cyl rotary Delta Delta-Delta Gamma Gamma-Gamma Monosoupape 7 Type A Monosoupape 9 Type B-2 Monosoupape 9 Type N Omega Omega-Omega Lambda Lambda-Lambda...
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    14-cyl rotary Delta Delta-Delta Gamma Gamma-Gamma Monosoupape 7 Type A Monosoupape 9 Type B-2 Monosoupape 9 Type N Omega Omega-Omega Lambda Lambda-Lambda...
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    Compression ratio: 4.5:1 Comparable engines Bentley BR1 Clerget 9B Gnome Monosoupape Related lists List of aircraft engines Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    14-cyl rotary Delta Delta-Delta Gamma Gamma-Gamma Monosoupape 7 Type A Monosoupape 9 Type B-2 Monosoupape 9 Type N Omega Omega-Omega Lambda Lambda-Lambda...
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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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    14-cyl rotary Delta Delta-Delta Gamma Gamma-Gamma Monosoupape 7 Type A Monosoupape 9 Type B-2 Monosoupape 9 Type N Omega Omega-Omega Lambda Lambda-Lambda...
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    timing Manifold pressure Mean effective pressure Naturally aspirated Monosoupape Overhead camshaft Overhead valve engine Rotary engine Shock cooling Stroke...
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    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 his...
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    the tail. Powered by two M-2 powerplants, up-rated copies of the Gnome Monosoupape rotary radial engine of World War I, the TsAGI 1-EA made several successful...
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    timing Manifold pressure Mean effective pressure Naturally aspirated Monosoupape Overhead camshaft Overhead valve engine Rotary engine Shock cooling Stroke...
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    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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  • 14-cyl rotary Delta Delta-Delta Gamma Gamma-Gamma Monosoupape 7 Type A Monosoupape 9 Type B-2 Monosoupape 9 Type N Omega Omega-Omega Lambda Lambda-Lambda...
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    timing Manifold pressure Mean effective pressure Naturally aspirated Monosoupape Overhead camshaft Overhead valve engine Rotary engine Shock cooling Stroke...
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