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    The Monosoupape (French for single-valve), was a rotary engine design first introduced in 1913 by Gnome Engine Company (renamed Gnome et Rhône in 1915)...
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    100 hp (75 kW) Gnome Delta in 1914 (also called the Gnome Monosoupape as it used that type of engine design for the first time). Gnome also tried a 14-cylinder...
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    rated power at 1,200 rpm. The later 160 hp nine-cylinder Gnome 9N rotary engine used the Monosoupape valve design while adding the safety factor of a dual...
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    Le Rhône (category Gnome-Rhône aircraft engines)
    outselling Gnome et Rhône's other main wartime engine series, the Gnome Monosoupape. Licenses for production of Le Rhône series engines were negotiated...
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    powerplant) Clerget 9Bf, 140 hp Le Rhône 9J, 110 hp Gnome Monosoupape 9B-2, 100 hp Gnome Monosoupape 9N, 160 hp The F.1 was the main production version...
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    generally weaker structure than the S-6. They had either an 80 hp Gnome Monosoupape or a 100 hp Argus Motoren engine. Some were deployed on the world's...
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    competition with the SPAD XIII, which it was built as a back-up for. Its Gnome Monosoupape 9N 160 CV rotary engine was mounted in a circular open-front cowling...
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    Home Defence Pups standardised on the more powerful 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome Monosoupape, which provided an improved rate of climb. These aircraft were distinguishable...
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    B.2. This was a two-bay biplane powered by a single 80 hp (60 kW) Gnome Monosoupape nine-cylinder rotary engine; the aircraft had a steel tube structure...
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    in the early 1920s, usually powered by Russian-made copies of the Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine. This Russian version of the 504 was replaced by what...
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