The Hispano-Suiza 14AA, also known as Type 79, was a fourteen-cylinder aircraft
radial engine
The radial engine is a reciprocating type internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel. It resembles a stylized star when viewed from the front, and is ca ...
used in France during the late 1930s. As
Hispano-Suiza
Hispano-Suiza () is a Spanish automotive–engineering company. It was founded in 1904 by Marc Birkigt and Damian Mateu as an automobile manufacturer and eventually had several factories in Spain and France that produced luxury cars, aircraft en ...
lacked recent experience in developing radial engines, it was derived from the licensed
Wright R-2600
The Wright R-2600 Cyclone 14 (also called Twin Cyclone) is an American radial engine developed by Curtiss-Wright and widely used in aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s.
History
In 1935, Curtiss-Wright began work on a more powerful version of their ...
engine.
Hartmann, Gérard, ''Hispano-Suiza. Les moteurs de tous les records
/ref> Due to reliability problems, the engine was largely supplanted by the similar Gnome-Rhône 14N
The Gnome-Rhône 14N was a 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine designed and manufactured by Gnome-Rhône just before the start of World War II. A development of the Gnome-Rhône 14K, the 14N was used on several French and even one Ger ...
.
Not to be confused with the smaller Hispano-Suiza 14AB
The Hispano-Suiza 14AB, a.k.a. Hispano-Suiza Type 80, was a 14-cylinder twin-row air-cooled radial engine. In 1929 the Hispano-Suiza company bought a license to produce the Wright Whirlwind engine. The technology from that engine was used to p ...
, which was derived from the smaller Wright Whirlwind
The Wright Whirlwind was a family of air-cooled radial aircraft engines built by Wright Aeronautical (originally an independent company, later a division of Curtiss-Wright). The family began with nine-cylinder engines, and later expanded to incl ...
series.
Variants
;14AA-00
: Direct drive LH rotation
;14AA-01
: Direct drive RH rotation as -00
;14AA-02
: 0.625:1 reduction gear LH rotation
;14AA-03
: 0.625:1 reduction gear RH rotation as -02
;14AA-04
: 0.625:1 reduction gear LH rotation
;14AA-05
: 0.625:1 reduction gear RH rotation as -04
;14AA-06
: Direct drive LH rotation
;14AA-07
: Direct drive RH rotation as -06
Applications
* Amiot 341
*LeO 45
Leo or Léo may refer to:
Acronyms
* Law enforcement officer
* Law enforcement organisation
* ''Louisville Eccentric Observer'', a free weekly newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky
* Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity
Arts an ...
*Farman F.223
The Farman F.220 and its derivatives were thick-sectioned, high-winged, four engined monoplanes from Farman Aviation Works. Based on the push-pull configuration proven by the F.211, design started in August 1925 and the first flight of the prot ...
* Latécoère 530
* Latécoère 570
* Koolhoven F.K.58
* Potez 501
* Romano R.120
Specifications (14AA-04)
See also
References
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Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines
1930s aircraft piston engines
Hispano-Suiza aircraft engines