Gnome Gamma

The Gnome 7 Gamma was a French designed, seven-cylinder, air-cooled rotary aero engine. Powering several pre-World War I era aircraft types it produced 70 horsepower (52 kW) from its capacity of 12 litres (680 cubic inches).

A 14-cylinder variant was known as the Gnome 14 Gamma-Gamma.

Variants

 * Gnome 7 Gamma
 * Seven-cylinder, single-row rotary engine.


 * Gnome 14 Gamma-Gamma
 * 14-cylinder, two-row rotary engine using Gamma cylinders. 140 hp (104 kW).

Applications
List from Lumsden

Gnome 7 Gamma

 * Blériot XXI
 * Bristol Biplane Type T
 * Bristol Prier-Dickson
 * Henry Farman Biplane
 * Grahame-White Passenger Biplane VIIc
 * Handley Page H.P.3
 * Morane-Borel seaplane
 * Nieuport Monoplane
 * Paulhan Biplane
 * Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.3
 * Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.4
 * Short School Biplane
 * Short S.32
 * Short S.36
 * Short S.38
 * Short S.45
 * Sopwith Three-Seater
 * Vickers No.6 Monoplane
 * Vickers No.8 Monoplane

Gnome 14 Gamma-Gamma

 * Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.7
 * Short S.41