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. Powering several pre-

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(52 kW) from its capacity of 12 litres (680 cubic inches).Lumsden 2003, p. 151. A 14-cylinder variant was known as the Gnome 14 Gamma-Gamma.

Variants

;Gnome 7 Gamma :Seven-cylinder, single-row rotary engine. ;Gnome 14 Gamma-Gamma :14-cylinder, two-row rotary engine using Gamma cylinders. 140 hp (104 kW).

Applications

''List from Lumsden''

Gnome 7 Gamma

Blériot XXI The Blériot XXI was an early French aircraft built by Blériot Aéronautique. Design The aircraft was a shoulder-wing monoplane powered by a 52 kW (70 hp) Gnome Gamma 7-cylinder rotary engine driving a two-bladed propeller. The pilot ...

* Bristol Biplane Type T * Bristol Prier-Dickson * Henry Farman Biplane *

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* Morane-Borel seaplane *

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* Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.3 * Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.4 *

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Short S.45 The Short S.45 — also known as the Short T.5 after its naval serial number — was a training biplane built for Britain's Royal Navy by Short Brothers in 1912. It was the forerunner of another three identical aircraft (designated S.48, S.49, ...

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* Vickers No.6 Monoplane * Vickers No.8 Monoplane

Gnome 14 Gamma-Gamma

Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.7 The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.3 was a single-engined rotary engined biplane developed by the British Royal Aircraft Factory prior to the First World War. The B.E.4 and B.E.7 were virtually identical aircraft that differed only in the engine fit ...

Short S.41 The Short S.41 was a British single-engined biplane built for the Royal Navy in 1912. Capable of being operated either on wheels or floats, it was successful enough for a further two similar aircraft to be built, with the type remaining in us ...

Specifications (Gnome 7 Gamma)

References

Notes

Bibliography

* Lumsden, Alec. ''British Piston Engines and their Aircraft''. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. . {{Gnome-Rhône aeroengines Air-cooled aircraft piston engines 1910s aircraft piston engines

Gamma Gamma (uppercase , lowercase ; ''gámma'') is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. In Ancient Greek, the letter gamma represented a voiced velar stop . In Modern Greek, this letter re ...

Rotary aircraft piston engines