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Antoinette 8V

V8 piston aircraft engine

V8 piston aircraft engine

FieldValue
name8V
imageAntoinette 8V side cropped Museo scienza e tecnologia Milano.jpg
captionAntoinette 8V exhibited at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan
engine_typeV8 aero engine
national_originFrance
manufacturerAntoinette
designerLéon Levavasseur
first_runc.1906

The Antoinette 8V was an early French eight-cylinder, liquid-cooled, V engine, the first series production gasoline-fueled, spark plug ignition engine of any kind produced with manifold injection. It was typically rated at 50 hp. First produced in 1906 it was used on a number of early French aircraft, including Alberto Santos Dumont's 14 Bis and the Antoinette company's own Antoinette VII.

Specifications (Antoinette 8V)

Data for: Antoinette 8V | and start a new, fully formatted line with -- |power/weight=0.4 kW/kg

References

  1. Engine Data Sheets - Mechanical Data tables
  2. Specifications: Antoinette 8V

References

  1. Boucher, W.I.. "Antoinette 8V". www.wwiaviation.com.
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