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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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    needed] Gnome Ω50 Omega (a.k.a. 50 hp) Gnome Λ80 Lambda (a.k.a. 80 hp) Gnome Δ100 Delta (a.k.a. 100 hp) Gnome Σ60 Sigma (a.k.a. 60 hp) Gnome ΩΩ100 Omega Omega...
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    lift-rotor helicopter in 1931–32. Unlike other rotaries, the early Gnome engines like the Gnome Omega, Lambda and Delta used a unique arrangement of valves in order...
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    Rotary engine (section Gnome)
    Henri Fabre's Le Canard, was powered by a Gnome Omega on March 28, 1910, near Marseille. Production of Gnome rotaries increased rapidly, with some 4,000...
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    1905 Louis Seguin created the company Gnome. Production of the first rotary engine for airplanes, the Gnome Omega, started in 1909. This company merged...
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  • commercial quantities – the seven-cylinder Gnome Omega – begins production by French company Société Des Moteurs Gnome. 1910: The first overhead camshaft engine...
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    Des Moteurs Gnome (the Gnome motor company founded by Louis and Laurent Seguin in 1905) where he worked on their 7-cylinder Gnome Omega rotary engine...
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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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    Farman replaced the engine with the new and more reliable 50 hp (37 kW) Gnome Omega rotary engine while the aircraft was at the Grande Semaine d'Aviation...
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    1908: Louis Seguin designed the Gnome Omega, the world's first rotary engine to be produced in quantity. In 1909 a Gnome powered Farman III aircraft won...
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  • Gnome system as the Gnome Omega aircraft engine, and from there a series of larger versions of the same basic design. The new Gnome engines were wildly...
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    based on the Type S.27, the Triple Twin. This was powered by two 50 hp Gnome Omega engines, one in the front of the nacelle driving a pair of tractor propellers...
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    gondola for the crew and an Argus in-line engine instead of the original Gnome Omega rotary engine. Four were sold to Bulgaria where they took an active part...
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    A major advance came with the introduction of the Seguin brothers' Gnome Omega seven-cylinder, air-cooled rotary engine, exhibited at the Paris Aero...
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    countries eventually producing the engine. In France, Gnome-Rhone produced a version known as the Gnome-Rhône 9 Jupiter that was used in several local civilian...
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  • exposed Fabre beam, was mounted below the rear of the upper beam, and the Gnome Omega rotary engine driving a two-bladed pusher Chauvière propeller was mounted...
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    Gnome Omega Archived 2012-04-19 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved: 11 November 2010. Moteurs Gnome (PDF) (in French). Paris: Société Des Moteurs Gnome...
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    1910 and together they finished the aeroplane, fitting a 50 hp (37 kW) Gnome Omega engine in the front. The machine is known variously as the Kitchen annular...
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  • Mercury Bristol Hercules XVIII Curtiss OX-5 Daimler-Benz DB 605 Gnome Monosoupape Gnome Omega Green C.4 Hispano-Suiza 8 Lycoming T55 Junkers Jumo 004 Liberty...
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  • Morane-Saulnier G 60 kW (80 hp) Gnome Lambda Second 92 km/h 57 mph 1913 5 France Nieuport IV.H 74.6 kW (100.0 hp) Gnome Omega-Omega Retired mid race n/a 1913...
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    Frenchman Henri Fabre flew the first successful powered seaplane, the Gnome Omega-powered hydravion, a trimaran floatplane. Fabre's first successful take...
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  • A's Gnome Omega was sometimes described as a Thulin engine. Although Thulin built Le Rhônes under licence, it is unlikely that Thulin built Gnomes since...
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    transport. Blériot XI-1 Artillerie Single-seater powered by a 50 hp (37 kW) Gnome 7 Omega, with collapsible fuselage for transportation. Blériot XI E1 Single-seat...
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    Frenchman Henri Fabre flew the first successful powered floatplane, the Gnome Omega–powered Hydravion, a trimaran floatplane. Fabre's first successful take...
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    which ran forward, rounding into a cowling around the 37 kW (50 hp) Gnome Omega seven cylinder radial engine. The cowling was more complete than on the...
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  • test pilot. The Bee was a single-bay biplane powered by a 50 hp (37 kW) Gnome Omega rotary engine, intended for use by Hawker as a runabout and for aerobatics...
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    More radical was the Seguin brothers' series of Gnôme rotary radial engines, starring with the Gnome Omega 50 horsepower (37 kW) air-cooled seven-cylinder...
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    area: 25 m2 (270 sq ft) Gross weight: 300 kg (661 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Gnome Omega air-cooled rotary piston engine, 37 kW (50 hp) Propellers: (2 coaxial...
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    'Rougier'. In 1909, Rougier learned to fly in a Voisin powered by a Gnome Omega engine. On 18 November 1909 he was awarded Aviator's Certificate number...
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  • were operated by bamboo pushrods. Power was provided by a 50 hp (37 kW) Gnome Omega seven-cylinder rotary engine driving an 8 ft 6in (2.59 m) propeller....
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