- De Havilland Gipsy Minor
The de Havilland Gipsy Minor was a four-cylinder, air-cooled, inline
engine used primarily in thede Havilland Moth Minor monoplane. The engine was a simplified and smaller version of the earlierde Havilland Gipsy . It featured only one magneto where dual ignition was normal for the Gipsy series of engines. A total of 171 engines were produced, including 100 built in Australia, production moving to that country due to the start of the Second World War. [Lumsden 2003, p.136.]Applications
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De Havilland Moth Minor
*Short Scion pecifications (Gipsy Minor)
pistonspecs
ref= [Lumsden 2003, p.141.]
type=4-cylinder air-cooled inverted inline piston aircraft engine
bore=4.016 in (102 mm)
stroke=4.528 in (115 mm)
displacement=229.29 in³ (3.759 L)
length=
diameter=
width=
height=
weight=216 lb (98 kg)
valvetrain=Overhead valve
supercharger=
turbocharger=
fuelsystem=
fueltype=Minimum 70 octane petrol
oilsystem=Dry sump, gear-type pump
coolingsystem=Air-cooled
power=90 hp at 2,600 rpm
specpower=
compression= 6:1
fuelcon=
specfuelcon=
oilcon=
power/weight=0.41 hp/lbee also
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de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre
*Frank Halford Comparable engines
* Cirrus Minor
*Hirth HM 504 Related lists
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List of aircraft engines References
Notes
Bibliography
* Lumsden, Alec. "British Piston Engines and their Aircraft". Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-85310-294-6.
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