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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 Mercedes D.IIIa were later re-engined with the D.IIIaü. By mid-1918, some D.VIIs received the "overcompressed" 138 kW (185 hp) BMW IIIa, the first product...
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    product was a straight-six aircraft engine called the BMW IIIa. Following the end of World War I, BMW remained in business by producing motorcycle engines...
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    engine. BMW has also made prototype V6 engines * Also produced in a naturally aspirated configuration. 1917–1919 – IIIa, 19.1 L straight-six — first BMW corporate...
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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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    year. BMW's first product was produced for fighter aircraft of the Luftstreitkräfte. It was a straight-six aircraft engine called the BMW IIIa, designed...
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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 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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  • 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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    Rapp Motorenwerke (category BMW)
    success under the designation BMW IIIa. In 1922, the company changed its name to Süddeutsche Bremsen-AG [de] after the BMW name and engine-making assets...
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    an enlarged Fokker D.VII fighter with two seats and a 138 kW (185 hp) BMW IIIa engine. The C.I was originally developed to sell to the German Army. It...
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    by the BMW IIIa of 138 kW (185 hp) and then 150 kW (200 hp)(British rated it at 170 kW (230 hp)) in 1918, however, the small number of BMW's produced...
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    Karl Rapp (category BMW people)
    was a big success under the designation BMW IIIa. After Rapp left the company (immediately it was renamed BMW) he became chief engineer and head of the...
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    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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    more powerful 140 kW (185 hp) BMW IIIa upright inline water-cooled motor. Many variants were built using Mercedes, BMW, Junkers, and Armstrong Siddeley...
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    All of these were developments of the BMW IIIa inline-six SOHC German World War I aviation engine, which BMW allowed as they were no longer interested...
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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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    poor climb rates at altitude. After being fitted with a more powerful BMW IIIa inline-six liquid-cooled engine that reduced the time needed to rate to...
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    Production of Volvo straight-six engines ceased in 2015. BMW's first product was the 1917 BMW IIIa straight-six aircraft engine. The company began production...
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    pre-war inline six. Prominent examples include the German Mercedes D.III and BMW IIIa, Italian Isotta Fraschini V.4 and British Siddeley Puma. The British de...
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    with SPAD-type wings and Windhoff "ear" radiators. The overcompressed BMW IIIa engine would have provided improved performance in the D.XIIf variant....
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    Bramo 323 (redirect from BMW-Bramo 323A)
    economy kept it from more widespread use, and most designs chose the similar BMW 132 instead, whose specific fuel consumption varied between 220 and 240 g/(kW•h)...
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    weight: 637 kg (1,404 lb) Gross weight: 862 kg (1,900 lb) Powerplant: 1 × BMW IIIa 6-cyl. water-cooled in-line piston engine, 138 kW (185 hp) Propellers:...
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    weight: 670 kg (1,477 lb) Gross weight: 900 kg (1,984 lb) Powerplant: 1 × BMW IIIa 6-cyl. water-cooled in-line piston engine, 138 kW (185 hp) Performance...
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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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    followed the later Mercedes D.IIIa design's partly-exposed SOHC valvetrain design; and the Max Friz-designed; German BMW IIIa straight-six engine. The DOHC...
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  • The BMW GT 101 was a turboshaft-type gas turbine engine developed from the BMW 003 aviation engine, that was considered for installation in Nazi Germany's...
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  • needed] Gross weight: 1,270 kg (2,800 lb) [citation needed] Powerplant: 1 × BMW IIIa 6-cylinder qater-cooled in-line piston engine, 136 kW (182 hp) Propellers:...
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    the 138 kW (185 hp) BMW IIIa engine. The Dutch airline KLM, which ordered the first two F.IIs after the prototype, found the BMW IIIa lacked power and had...
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