The Lorraine 12E Courlis was a
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aero engine
An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system. Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbines, although a few have been rocket powered and in recent years many ...
produced by the French company
Lorraine-Dietrich
Lorraine-Dietrich was a French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935, created when railway locomotive manufacturer ''Société Lorraine des Anciens Etablissements de Dietrich et Cie de Lunéville'' (known as ''De Dietri ...
during the 1920s and 1930s.
Variants
;12E:
;12Eb:
;12Ebr:
;12Ed:
;12Edr:
;12Ee:
;12Ew:The standard Eb fitted with a supplementary supercharger.
;Elizalde A: The 12E built under licence in Spain by Elizalde S.A.
Applications
Aircraft
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Aichi AB-1
The Aichi AB-1 was a result of a 1926 government call for a small, Japanese-built, civil transport biplane able to operate from land or water. It won the contest in both roles but did not reach production as airlines moved from biplanes to mono ...
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Bernard SIMB V.1
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Blériot-SPAD S.86
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Breguet 19
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Canete Pirata
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Caudron C.17
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Dewoitine D.12
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Dewoitine D.25
The Dewoitine D.25 was a single-engine, two-seat, parasol-wing fighter aircraft built in France in the 1920s. The 1925 French two-seat fighter programme was cancelled before any orders were placed, but four examples were exported to Argentina.
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FMA AeT.1
The FMA AeT.1 was an airliner built in Argentina in the early 1930s.
Design and development
The AeT.1 was a low-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional design, with fixed tailwheel undercarriage. Only three examples were built, christened '' ...
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Grigorovich MR-2
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Grigorovich ROM-1
The Grigorovich ROM-1 was a long-range reconnaissance flying boat designed by the Grigorovich Design Bureau for the Soviet Navy in the late 1920s.
Design
The ROM-1 (ROM = ''Razviedchik Otkrytovo Morya'' pen Sea Reconnaissance was a long range ...
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Hiro H1H
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Levasseur PL.4
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Levasseur PL.5 __NOTOC__
The Levasseur PL.5 was a carrier-based fighter produced in France in the late 1920s, in response to the 1924 AMBC.2 (two seat carrier based fighter) specification issued by the ''Service Technique de l'Aéronautique'' (STAé). It was a ...
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Levasseur PL.8
The Levasseur PL.8 was a single engine, two-seat long-distance record-breaking biplane aircraft modified from an existing Levasseur PL.4 carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft produced in France in the 1920s. Levasseur (aircraft manufacturer), Lev ...
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Lioré et Olivier LeO H-134
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Potez 24
The Potez 24 A.2 was a mid-1920s French biplane intended to replace the Potez 15 as an army observation aircraft. The further improved and larger Potez 25 was preferred for production.
Design and development
The Potez 24 was designed to fill ...
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Potez 25
Potez 25 (also written as Potez XXV) was a French twin-seat, single-engine biplane designed during the 1920s. A multi-purpose fighter-bomber, it was designed as a line aircraft and used in a variety of roles, including fighter and escort mission ...
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Potez 26
The Potez 26 was a single seat fighter aircraft designed and flown in France in the mid-1920s. It did not reach production.
Design and development
The Potez 26 was a lighter, smaller span, single-seat fighter version of the two-seat biplane Pot ...
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PWS-10
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Rohrbach Ro IIIa Rodra
The Rohrbach Ro III was a twin-engined, all-metal flying boat built in Germany in the mid-1920s. A development of the Ro II, it could be configured either as an airliner or a reconnaissance aircraft. It was developed into the similar but more pow ...
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SET 2
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Villiers II
The Villiers II was a French two-seat fighter aircraft of the 1920s intended for operation from the Aircraft carrier French aircraft carrier Béarn, ''Béarn'' of the French Navy. It was a single-engined tractor configuration, tractor biplane wit ...
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Villiers XXIV
The Villiers XXIV or Villiers 24 CAN2 was a French army night fighter most notable as the first French military aircraft to be fitted with leading edge slats.
Design
Though the ability of retractable leading edge slots to enable wings to reach ...
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Wibault 73
The Wibault 7 was a 1920s French monoplane fighter designed and built by '' Société des Avions Michel Wibault''. Variants were operated by the French and Polish military and built under licence for Chile as the Vickers Wibault.
Development
D ...
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Yokosuka E1Y
The Yokosuka E1Y was a Japanese floatplane of the 1920s. A single-engined biplane that was designed and developed by the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal as a reconnaissance aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Navy, 320 were built as the Type ...
Other applications
* Argentine
Nahuel tank
The Nahuel DL-43 tank was a medium tank developed in Argentina during World War II. It was the Argentine equivalent of the M4 Sherman and the M3 Grant American medium tanks.
Design
The designer was Lt. Colonel Alfredo Baisi. The word ''Nahuel' ...
Specifications (12Ed)
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
* Gunston, Bill. ''World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines''. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.
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