The Gnome-Rhône 9K Mistral was a nine-cylinder 550 hp (405 kW) to 700 hp air-cooled radial engine, that started life as an enlarged
Gnome-Rhône 7K
The Gnome-Rhône 7K Titan Major was a seven-cylinder 370 hp (270 kW) air-cooled radial engine, that started life as an enlarged Gnome-Rhône 5K with two extra cylinders.
Development
The Gnome-Rhône 5K was itself a licensed version o ...
with two extra cylinders.
Design and development
The Gnome-Rhône 7K itself was an enlarged version of the
Gnome-Rhône 5K
The Bristol Titan was a British five-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the late 1920s. It had the same size cylinders as the earlier Bristol Mercury engine, (displacing ), and produced ...
which was derived from a licensed version of the
Bristol Titan
The Bristol Titan was a British five-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the late 1920s. It had the same size cylinders as the earlier Bristol Mercury engine, (displacing ), and produced ...
. A redesign of the cylinders is indicated by the K suffix. The 9K was followed by the larger and more powerful 14-cylinder twin row
Gnome-Rhône 14K.
The 9K was license produced by Hungarian company
Weiss Manfréd Repülogép- és Motorgyár Rt. (WM Rt, the aircraft engine factory of Manfred Weiss). The engine was used successfully in the
MÁVAG Héja
The MÁVAG ''Héja'' ("Hawk") was a Hungarian fighter aircraft based on the Italian Reggiane Re.2000. The 70 Reggiane Re2000s delivered from Italy were modified with Hungarian equipment and fitted with Hungarian-built Manfred Weiss WM K-14 engin ...
and
Weiss WM-21 Sólyom __NOTOC__
The Weiss WM-21 Sólyom ( en, Falcon) was a 1930s Hungarian light bomber and reconnaissance biplane which served in World War II and was developed by the Manfred Weiss company.
Design and development
The WM-21 was designed to replace t ...
aircraft. The 9K was also produced in the Soviet Union as the M-75 at
GAZ-29 in
Zaporozhye
Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запоріжжя) or Zaporozhye (russian: Запорожье) is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia has a populatio ...
. Only small numbers were built and it was dropped in favor of the
M-25 M25 or M-25 may be:
Aerospace
* M-25 Dromader Mikro, a variant of the Polish PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader agricultural aircraft
* Cors-Air M25Y Black Devil, an Italian aircraft engine
* Shvetsov M-25, an aircraft radial engine produced in the Soviet ...
a version of the
Wright Cyclone
Wright Cyclone was the name given to a family of air-cooled radial piston engines designed by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation and used in numerous American aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s.
Background
The Wright Aeronautical Corporation was f ...
and the M-85 a version of the
Gnome-Rhône 14K Mistral Major.
Variants
;9K:
;9Kbr:
;9Kdr:
;9Kdrs:
;9Kers:
;9Kfr:
;I.A.R. 9KIc40:Licence production in
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
by
Industria Aeronautică Română
Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR) (now IAR S.A. Brașov) or Romanian Aeronautic Industry in English, is a Romanian aerospace manufacturer. It is based in Ghimbav, near Brașov, Romania.
IAR was founded in 1925 with the aid of the Romanian g ...
(IAR).
Applications
*
Breguet Calcutta
*
IAR-15
*
Loire 70
*
Morane-Saulnier M.S.225
The Morane-Saulnier M.S.225 was a French fighter aircraft of the 1930s. It was produced in limited quantities to be used as a transitional aircraft between the last of the biplanes and the first monoplane fighters.
Design and development
The M.S. ...
*
SNCAC NC.510
The SNCAC NC.510 was a twin-engine French reconnaissance, army co-operation or advanced training aircraft, built in the late 1930s. Three were built and refined but production orders were not forthcoming.
Design and development
The Société ...
*
Wibault 313
*
Wibault 365
Specifications (9Kd)
See also
References
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1920s aircraft piston engines
Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines
9K
M-75