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's
Atlantic Ocean 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 cylinder heads attached by long studs to the crankcase,
Duralumin
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Its use as a tra ...
connecting rods and
magnesium alloy crankcase.
The 6P was also produced in the
USSR, 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
Applications
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Caudron C.684
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Morane-Saulnier MS.350
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Design
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(Pei)
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Moskalyev SAM-9 Strela
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Design and development
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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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1920s aircraft piston engines
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Straight-six engines