User:MikWes/Renault 60 hp V-8

Precursors of the engine (move to separate article)

The first precursor of the Renault 50/60 hp engine was an air-cooled V-8 engine of approximately 40–45 hp (30–34 kW) presented on the Salon de l’Automobile 1907, which has been intended for aircraft and dirigibles and was cooled by two separate fans on both ends of the engine.

• TODO: variant with single fan, propeller shaft below.. (date, hp etc)
  • e.g. Le Génie Civil, vol 55 1909, p. 127 + plates
• (Henri) Farman II (The Flying Fish, Voisin), 35 hp Renault V-8 ref. par air, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k96036698/f9.item , La Vie au grand air, 29 Feb. 1908, pp. 134-135

Timeline

• 1908: variant with single fan, plain fan housing
  • Le 10eme Anniversaire des Renault, La Vie au grand air, 29 Nov. 1908, pp. 366-367

• 1908/09: variant with single fan, conical fan housing (date, hp etc)
  • 1st Paris Aeronautical Salon 24-30 December 1908, https://archive.org/details/Flight_International_Magazine_1909-01-23-pdf/page/n1/mode/2up
  • Le Moteurs extra-légers et Aeroplanes, La Vie au grand air, 2 Jan. 1909, pp. 18-19
  • London Olympia Motor show 19 March 1909, Flight pages 193 and 207, 50 hp, 1600 rpm
• 1909 version with oil pan / oil pump on back of oil pan
  • Le moteur d'aviation Renault, La Vie au grand air, 21 Aug. 1909, p. 134, 60 hp, winner of A.C.F motor competition, Breguet Airplane, also shows variant with propeller shaft below crankcase
  • Le Salon de l'Aeronautique - Le moteur Renault, La Vie au grand air, 2 Oct. 1909, p. 258

1909 vertical mounts

[1] (Salon)

[2] (Test stand)

[3] (Breguet, Semaine de Reims)

1910 transverse mounts (steel tubes)

[4] (Salon)

[5] (Test stand)

[6] (Test stand)

[7] (Test stand)

[8] (advert, July 1911)

1911 cast lower engine case

[9]

Applications

• Bréguet Type I (flown at Grande Semaine d'Aviation 1909, 55hp, 1800 rpm according to https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9804569q/f86.item)
• Bréguet Type II
• Bréguet L.1
• Biplan M. Farman (Grand Prix Michelin 1911)
• French Wright biplane

References

Bibliography

• Angle, Glenn Dale (1921). Airplane Engine Encyclopedia: An Alphabetically Arranged Compilation Of All Available Data On The World's Airplane Engines. Otterbein Press. pp. 411-413. OL 23525261M.

• Capitaine C. Martinot-Lagarde (1918). Les Moteurs d'Aviation (in French). Paris: Berger-Levrault. pp. 122-126.

• Lumet, G. (1909). "Rapport sour le Concours de Moteurs à grande puissance massique". Bulletin officiel de la Commission technique de l'Automobile-club de France, June 1909 (in French). Paris. pp. 54-64.

• Pepinster, E. (18 March 1911). "Le Grand Prix Michelin: le biplan Maurice Farman, le moteur d'aviation Renault, la magnéto Bosch". Omnia (in French). Paris. pp. 127-130.

• Lagrange, L. (15 March 1911). "La conquête du Grand Prix "Michelin"". L'Aérophile (in French). Paris. pp. 121-129.

• Philos (15 October 1911). "Les "Triplaces" militaires Bréguet". L'Aérophile (in French). Paris. pp. 476-482.

• "Le 10eme Anniversaire des Renault". La Vie au grand air (in French). Paris. 29 November 1908. pp. 366-367.

• "Renault Frères au deuxième Salon". La Vie au grand air (in French). Paris. 2 January 1909. p. 19.

• "The first Paris Aeronautical Salon". Flight. London. 23 January 1909. pp. 46-49.

• "Aero-motors at Olympia". Flight. London. 3–10 April 1909. pp. 193-197, 205-208.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)

• van Velzen, A. A. N. M. (1911). De voornaamste Vliegmachines en haar Motoren (in Dutch). Deventer: Æ. E. Kluwer. pp. 57–58. OCLC 7165413.

External links

• Renault 50/60 hp installed in a Bréguet aircraft, Semaine de Reims, 1909 (Agence Meurisse): 3600bis
• Renault 50/60 hp at the Concours de Moteurs pour l'Aviation 1909 (Agence Meurisse): 1803
• Renault 50/60 hp on the test bench, 1910 (Agence Meurisse): 7732 7733 7734
• Renault 50 hp at the Salon Aéronautique, 1910 (Agence Meurisse): 8353