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1 Piston engines

• Allison V-1710
• BMW 801
• Bristol Aquila
• Bristol Centaurus
• Bristol Hercules
• Bristol Jupiter
• Bristol Mercury
• Bristol Pegasus
• Bristol Perseus
• Bristol Phoenix
• Bristol Taurus
• Continental O-200
• Daimler-Benz DB 601
• de Havilland Gipsy MajorThe de Havilland Gipsy Major was a 4-cylinder, air-cooled, inline engine used in a variety of light aircraft in the 1930s including the famous Tiger Moth biplane. Based on the Gipsy engine, the Gipsy Major used an "inverted" configuration with the cylinde
• Hispano-Suiza 12YThe Hispano-Suiza 12Y was a French aircraft engine in the pre- WWII era. Developed from the earlier, and somewhat smaller, 12X, the 12Y became the primary 1,000 hp (750 kW) class engine and was used in a number of famous aircraft, including the Morane-Sau
• Hispano-Suiza 12ZThe 12Z was the final evolution of the series of Hispano-Suiza V-12 aircraft engines, which had just entered production when France fell to the Germans during World War II. A small number were produced during the war but the German occupation government w
• Hitachi HatsukazeThe Hitachi Hatsukaze was a series of aircraft engines built in Japan prior to and during World War II. They were air-cooled, four-cylinder, inverted inline engines developing around 82 kW (110 hp). Hatsukaze engines were produced in very large numbers, s
• Gnome MonosoupapeThe Monosoupape engine is a style of rotary-radial engine once seen in high performance WWI fighter aircraft. An example of an aircraft powered by this engine was the 9-cylinder French LeRhone Gnome Monosoupape. Engine Configuration The conventional orien
• Junkers Jumo 205The Junkers Jumo 205 aircraft engine was the most famous of a series of diesel engines that were the first, and for more than half a century, the only successful diesel aircraft engines. The Jumo 204 first entered service in 1932. Later engines in the ser
• Junkers Jumo 222The Jumo 222 was a high power aircraft engine design from Junkers. The design failed to mature even after years of intensive development, dooming the entire Bomber B program along with it. Only a small number were built, never leaving the prototype phase,
• Junkers Jumo 223The Junkers Jumo 223 was an experimental 24-cylinder aircraft engine based on the Junkers Jumo 205. It had four banks of six cylinders in a rhomboid configuration, with four crankshafts one at each vertex of the rhombus, and 48 pistons. Only one example i
• Nakajima Homare
• Napier Lion
• Napier Nomad
• Napier Sabre
• Pratt & Whitney R-2800
• Pratt & Whitney R-4360
• Rolls-Royce Merlin
• Rolls-Royce Vulture
• Wright R-3350