Clerget was the name given to a series of early rotary aircraft engine types of the World War I era that were designed by Pierre Clerget. Manufactured...
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The Clerget 9B is a nine-cylinder rotary aircraft engine of the World War I era designed by Pierre Clerget. Manufactured in both France and Great Britain...
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merged into SNECMA in 1947. The Clerget-Blin company mainly produced aircraft engines. Their successful rotary engine designs were also built in Britain...
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The Clerget 16X was an experimental French 16-cylinder X engine built in about 1918. Clerget are best known for their well engineered rotary engines produced...
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engine) Clerget 14Fcs Clerget 14F1 Clerget 14F2 Clerget 14U Clerget 16H diesel V-16 (180x200=81.43L) [1] Clerget 16SS diesel Clerget 16X Clerget 18 rotary...
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kW/kg (0.421 hp/lb) Clerget aircraft engines Comparable engines Gnome Monosoupape Le Rhône Related lists List of aircraft engines Lumsden 2003, p. 134...
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Clerget may refer to: Axel Clerget (born 1987), French judoka Charles Clerget (1795–1849), French army officer Clerget aircraft engines, made by the defunct...
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The Clerget 7Z was a seven-cylinder rotary aircraft engine of the World War I era designed by Pierre Clerget. First appearing in 1911 it was nominally...
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power components are referred to as powered flight. Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbines, although a few have been rocket powered...
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called a "star engine" in some other languages. The radial configuration was commonly used for aircraft engines before gas turbine engines became predominant...
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twinned M-2 rotary engines. Although rotary engines were mostly used in aircraft, a few cars and motorcycles were built with rotary engines. Perhaps the first...
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experimented with diesel engines in this period, such as the French Bloch (later Dassault Aviation), whose MB203 bomber prototype used Clerget diesels of radial...
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Ader Clément-Bayard Clerget-Blin — France Coatalen Colombo Comet Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation — Australia Compact Radial Engines – Canada CNA – Italy...
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especially powerful torque reaction. Some aircraft, such as the Sopwith Camel with its relatively heavy Clerget 9B engine, were noted for having a faster turn...
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Bentley BR1 (category Rotary aircraft piston engines)
of their license built Clerget 9B rotary engines. The 130 horsepower Clerget 9B powered a number of important British aircraft, including the Sopwith...
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Hispano-Suiza piston aero-engines were predominantly piston engines produced by Hispano-Suiza in France, Spain, and under licence in the United Kingdom...
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Coandă-1910 (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
was built in the workshops of Clergét Company in Paris, a company well known for the construction of aeroplane engines. Mr. Coandă's new aeroplane will...
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Le Rhône (category Gnome-Rhône aircraft engines)
was the name given to a series of rotary aircraft engines built between 1910 and 1920. Le Rhône series engines were originally sold by the Société des...
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Sopwith 1½ Strutter (redirect from Sopwith Land Clerget Tractor)
larger, fighter aircraft, the Sopwith LCT (Land Clerget Tractor), designed by Herbert Smith and powered by a 110 hp (82 kW) Clerget engine. Like the Sigrist...
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Gnome Monosoupape (redirect from Monosauppe engine)
on more conventional rotary engines, and made the Monosoupape engines some of the most reliable of the era. British aircraft designer Thomas Sopwith described...
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Guiberson A-1020 (category 1940s aircraft piston engines)
aircraft. Guiberson A-1020 Rated at 310 hp (230 kW) - production engines for aircraft use. Guiberson T-1020 Rated at 250 hp (190 kW) - for use in light...
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Sopwith Camel (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
pilot. Production Camels were powered by various rotary engines, most commonly either the Clerget 9B or the Bentley BR1. In order to evade a potential manufacturing...
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Hispano-Suiza 8 (redirect from M-6 V-8 engine)
230 hp (170 kW) and weighed 220 kg (490 lb), Clerget 9B rotary 130 hp (97 kW), 173 kg (381 lb). The new engine was presented to the French Ministry of War...
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Avro 504 (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
Aircraft & Engineering. 130 hp (97 kW) Clerget 9B, 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome Monosoupape or 110 hp (82 kW) Le Rhône 9J engines. 504K Mk.II Hybrid trainer based on...
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Bristol M.1 (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
experimental purposes, several Bristol Scout D aircraft were outfitted 110 horsepower (82 kW) Clerget rotary engine and large-diameter propellers; considered...
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Sopwith Triplane (category Rotary-engined aircraft)
installation of a 130 hp Clerget 9B engine. N504 was eventually dispatched to France in December of that year. This aircraft served as a conversion trainer...
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Nieuport 17bis (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
impressive, but the Clerget engines lost power quickly between overhauls, and the problem was worse with the British built engines. Many pilots tried to...
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Wight Quadruplane (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
inefficient. Power was provided by a 110 hp (82 kW) Clerget 9Z nine-cylinder air cooled rotary engine and it was to be armed with two 0.303 in (7.7 mm)...
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Nieuport 12 (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
Beardmore. It could be fitted with either a 100 hp (75 kW) Clerget, 130 hp (97 kW) Clerget 9B engine or 110 hp (82 kW) Le Rhône 9J mounted in the nose. Nieuport...
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Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10 (category Single-engined tractor aircraft)
first flown in the summer of 1916, powered by a 110 hp (80 kW) Clerget 9Z rotary engine. It had a shallow fuselage, with the wings joined by plank-like...
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