The Renault 6P, also called the Renault Bengali, was a series of air-cooled 6-cylinder inverted in-line aero engines designed and built in France from the late 1920s, which produced from to .
Design and development
Charles Lindbergh
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's
Atlantic Ocean
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crossing in 1927 inspired Renault to enter the light aero-engine market to diversify the range of engines they offered. To complement the
4P four-cylinder engines, Renault developed the 6P series, with bore and stroke; by adding two cylinders of the same bore and stroke.
Developed by
Charles-Edmond Serre, the 6P evolved to give , using bore steel cylinder liners,
aluminium alloy
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cylinder heads attached by long studs to the crankcase,
Duralumin connecting rods and
magnesium alloy
Magnesium alloys are mixtures of magnesium (the lightest structural metal) with other metals (called an alloy), often aluminium, zinc, manganese, silicon, copper, rare earths and zirconium. Magnesium alloys have a hexagonal lattice structure, w ...
crankcase.
The 6P was also produced in the
USSR
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, as the MV-6, (MV - ''Motor Vozdushniy'' / ''Motor Voronezhskiy'' - air-cooled engine / Voronezh built engine ).
Variants
;Renault 6Pdi:inverted 6 in-line
;Renault 6Pdis:with supercharger
;Renault 6Pfi:
;Voronezh MV-6:licence production in the
USSR
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Applications
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Caudron C.630 Simoun
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Caudron C.684
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Morane-Saulnier MS.350 (Pei)
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Moskalyev SAM-9 Strela
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Moskalyev SAM-10bis
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Moskalyev SAM-11bis
Specifications (Renault 6Pdi)
See also
References
Further reading
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{{Renault aeroengines
1920s aircraft piston engines
6P
Straight-six engines