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Le Rhône was the name given to a series of rotary aircraft engines built between 1910 and 1920. Le Rhône series engines were originally sold by the Société des Moteurs Le Rhône and, following a 1914 corporate buyout, by its successor company, Gnome et Rhône.
A single-seat fighter, it was largely designed to test the experimental Le Rhône 9R engine. It first flew in early 1918, however was plagued by problems from the start, mainly due to its powerplant. As a result, it was never submitted for official testing. The data below are based on Hanriot estimates.
floatplane fighter with Clerget 9B engine HD.2C HD.2 with wheeled undercarriage (10 built for USN, plus 2 converted from HD.2 by French Navy) HD.12 fitted with wheeled landing gear, powered by a 170-hp (127-kW) Le Rhône 9R rotary piston engine. (1 built) HD.27 powered by a 180-hp (134-kW) Hispano-Suiza 8Ac engine. (1 built) H.29
Prototypes fitted with a Gnome Monosoupape 9N rotary engine, two later converted to take a Hispano engine and fitted with twin floats and an auxiliary tail float for the Grand Prix de Monaco in 1923. NiD.29M Single prototype for Aeronavale (M for Marine) similar to 29G but with 130 kW (180 hp) Le Rhone 9R, further converted into 32Rh. NiD.29D
In 1895 the 26-year-old French engineer Louis Seguin bought a license for the Gnom [3] gas engine from the German firm Motorenfabrik Oberursel.Sold under the French translation, the Gnome was a single-cylinder stationary engine of about 4 hp (3 kW) that ran on kerosene (known in the UK and South Africa as paraffin) intended to be used in industrial applications.
Le Rhône 9J engines were produced under license in Great Britain by W.H. Allen Son & Company of Bedford, and in Germany by Motorenfabrik Oberursel where it was sold as the Oberursel Ur.II. [ 2 ] In common with other Le Rhône series engines, the 9J featured highly visible copper induction pipes and used a single push-pull rod to operate its ...
The intention was to power the Type 02 operationally with either a 112 kW (150 hp) Gnome 9N or a 127–134 kW (170–180 hp) Le Rhône 9R engine, though for about fours months of initial testing it was fitted with a 89 kW (120 hp) Le Rhône 9Jb. All of these engines were nine cylinder rotaries. Photographs show neat, close fitted cowlings.
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