The Bentley BR.1 was a British rotary aircraft engine of the First World War. Designed by the motor car engine designer W. O. Bentley, BR.1s powered the...
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by various rotary engines, most commonly either the Clerget 9B or the Bentley BR1. In order to evade a potential manufacturing bottleneck being imposed...
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kW/kg (0.341 hp/lb) Clerget aircraft engines Related development Bentley BR1 Bentley BR2 Comparable engines Gnome Monosoupape Le Rhône 9J Related lists...
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implement Bentley's more important suggestions the Navy gave him a team to design his own aero engine at the Humber factory in Coventry. Designated the BR1, Bentley...
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seven-cylinder Gnome designs with inlet valve in piston crown) Comparable engines Bentley BR1 Clerget 7Z Clerget 9B Le Rhône 9J Oberursel U.I Related lists List of...
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with a dedicated section on the work of Frank Whittle. Alvis Leonides Bentley BR1 Rolls-Royce Griffon Armstrong Siddeley Mamba Armstrong Siddeley Double...
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pistons and are believed to have been designed by W. O. Bentley while he was working on the Bentley BR1 rotary engine in Coventry. Daimler made more twelve-inch...
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who had worked with W.O. during the war producing the aero engines BR1 and BR2. Bentley did not deliver complete vehicles, but—as was customary—provided...
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135 hp (100 kW) at 1,350 rpm Compression ratio: 5:1 Comparable engines Bentley BR1 Clerget 9B Gnome Monosoupape Related lists List of aircraft engines Hartmann...
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December 1921, at which time the engine was up-rated from the Bentley BR1 to the Bentley BR2. Flight trials in the open started in May 1924, however in...
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