The ABC Hornet was an 80 hp (90 kW) four-cylinder aero engine designed in the late 1920s by the noted British engineer

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for use in light aircraft. The Hornet was effectively a double

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and was built by

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, first running in 1929.Lumsden 2003, p. 54. In 1931 the engine was re-designed, including the adoption of the new

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alloys for the crankcase, exhaust manifolds and pistons.

Applications

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* Westland Widgeon

Specifications (Hornet)

References

Notes

Bibliography

* Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

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