Clerget 9B rotary engine
Status : private collection. Engine cut for didactic display - stored at owner's home.
The concept of the rotary engine (the whole engine running around a fix crankshaft) is a french innovation.
Although rotaries where made in UK, Italia and Germany, the french ones where seen as the best ones; to the extent that french engines (removed from crashed planes) where fitted to German aircrafts.
The last Fokker Dr. I of Manfred von Richtofen had a french engine! And Clerget engines where (and still are) the most sought after french engine of WWI
Although rotaries where made in UK, Italia and Germany, the french ones where seen as the best ones; to the extent that french engines (removed from crashed planes) where fitted to German aircrafts.
The last Fokker Dr. I of Manfred von Richtofen had a french engine! And Clerget engines where (and still are) the most sought after french engine of WWI
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Clerget 9B characteristics : |
Performances : |
| 9 cylinders rotary engine | Power : 130 hp at 1250 rpm |
| Bore : 120 mm |
Consumption of fuel: 27,71 l/h |
| Stroke : 160 mm |
Consumption of oil: 7,62 l/h |
| Total weight : 172,8 kg |
Aircraft powered with a Clerget 9B :
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Nieuport 12 |
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Sopwith Camel |
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Sopwith Triplane |
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Sopwith Strutter |
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Clerget 9B on Sopwith Camel (canadianflight.org)