The Curtiss D-12, sometimes identified with the military designation Curtiss V-1150, was an

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of 18.8 liter

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. It was a water-cooled

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, producing 443 hp (330 kW) and weighing 693 lb (314 kg). It was designed by

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in 1921 and used in the

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for the 1923

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race. Fairey Aviation of England imported 50 Curtiss-built examples in 1926, renaming them the Fairey Felix. The D-12 was one of the first truly successful

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cast- block engines and was extremely influential in the interwar period. Numerous engines trace their design to the D-12, among them the

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Rolls-Royce Kestrel The Kestrel or type F is a 21 litre (1,300 in³) 700 horsepower (520 kW) class V-12 aircraft engine from Rolls-Royce, their first cast-block engine and the pattern for most of their future piston-engine designs. Used during the interwar pe ...

and

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Applications

D-12

* Boeing Model 15 *

Curtiss CR The Curtiss CR was a racing aircraft designed for the United States Navy in 1921 by Curtiss. It was a conventional single-seater biplane with a monocoque fuselage and staggered single-bay wings of equal span braced with N-struts. Two essentially ...

* Curtiss Falcon *

Curtiss P-5 The P-1 Hawk (Curtiss Model 34) was a 1920s open-cockpit biplane fighter aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps. An earlier variant of the same aircraft had been designated PW-8 prior to 1925."US Military Aircraft Designations & Serials 19 ...

Curtiss PW-8 The P-1 Hawk (Curtiss Model 34) was a 1920s open-cockpit biplane fighter aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps. An earlier variant of the same aircraft had been designated PW-8 prior to 1925."US Military Aircraft Designations & Serials 19 ...

Curtiss R2C The Curtiss R2C was a racing aircraft designed for the United States Navy in 1923 by Curtiss. It was a single-seater biplane with a monocoque fuselage and staggered single-bay wings of unequal span braced with I-struts. The aircraft's advanced ...

Fokker D.XII The Fokker D.XII was a Dutch single seat, single engine fighter aircraft designed to an United States, American specification which called for the use of a Curtiss D-12 engine, designated PW-7. Despite considerable efforts to improve the airframe ...

Macchi M.33 The Macchi M.33 was an Italian racing flying boat which competed in the 1925 Schneider Trophy race. Design and development The Macchi M.33 was a single-seat, wooden, shoulder-wing monoplane flying boat of very clean aerodynamic design for its t ...

Wittman D-12 Bonzo The Wittman D-12 "Bonzo" was an air racer designed by Steve Wittman for the Thompson Trophy races. The aircraft's top speed of made it faster than any United States military aircraft of the era. Development Wittman purchased a Curtiss D-12 engin ...

Felix

* Fairey Firefly I * Fairey Fox

Specifications (Curtiss D-12/Felix)

References

Notes

Bibliography

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

External links

Great Aircraft Engines - Curtiss D-12

a 1922 ''Flight'' article on the CD-12 {{USAF piston engines D-12 1920s aircraft piston engines