BMW VI engine

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V12 engine aircraft engine liquid-cooled engine

The BMW VI engine was a German liquid-cooled V12 aircraft engine of the interwar period, widely used in military and civilian aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Label Occurrences
BMW VI engine canonical 2
BMW VI 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf V12 engine ⓘ
aircraft engine ⓘ
liquid-cooled engine ⓘ
application Arado Ar 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ
Arado Ar 65 NERFINISHED ⓘ
Dornier Do F NERFINISHED ⓘ
Dornier Do J Wal NERFINISHED ⓘ
Dornier Do Y NERFINISHED ⓘ
Fokker F.VII (license-built variants) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Heinkel He 45 NERFINISHED ⓘ
Heinkel He 46 NERFINISHED ⓘ
Heinkel He 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ
Junkers Ju 52 (early versions) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Rohrbach Ro VIII Roland NERFINISHED ⓘ
configuration V12 ⓘ
coolingSystem liquid-cooled ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Germany ⓘ
cylinderArrangement 60-degree V ⓘ
cylinderCount 12 ⓘ
developedBy BMW NERFINISHED ⓘ
displacement about 46 litres ⓘ
era interwar period ⓘ
firstRunDate 1925 ⓘ
fuelType aviation gasoline ⓘ
licenseBuiltAs M-17 ⓘ
licenseBuiltIn Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ
manufacturer Bayerische Motoren Werke AG NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFeature formed basis for later BMW aircraft engine developments ⓘ
one of the first successful German large V12 liquid-cooled aircraft engines after World War I ⓘ
powerOutput approximately 500 horsepower ⓘ
up to about 750 horsepower in later versions ⓘ
predecessor BMW V NERFINISHED ⓘ
productionEnd mid-1930s ⓘ
productionStart 1926 ⓘ
successor BMW 116 NERFINISHED ⓘ
BMW 132 NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedBy Luftwaffe predecessors ⓘ
civil airlines in Europe ⓘ
usedFor bombers ⓘ
fighters ⓘ
flying boats ⓘ
transport aircraft ⓘ
usedIn Soviet Polikarpov R-5 (via M-17) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Soviet Tupolev TB-1 (via M-17) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Soviet Tupolev TB-3 (via M-17) NERFINISHED ⓘ
civilian aircraft ⓘ
military aircraft ⓘ
usedInPeriod 1920s ⓘ
1930s ⓘ
valvetrain single overhead camshaft per bank ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Heinkel He 51 → powerplant → BMW VI engine ⓘ
Heinkel He 60 → powerplant → BMW VI engine ⓘ
BMW aircraft engine division → produced → BMW VI engine ⓘ
this entity surface form: BMW VI