Gnome Gamma Explained

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).^[1]

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

References

Bibliography

• Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

Notes and References

1. Lumsden 2003, p. 151.

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