The Gnome 7 Gamma was a French designed, seven-cylinder, air-cooled rotary aero engine. Powering several pre-World War I era aircraft types it produced 70 horsepower (52 kW) from its capacity of 12 litres (680 cubic inches).Lumsden 2003, p. 151.
A 14-cylinder variant was known as the Gnome 14 Gamma-Gamma.
Variants Gnome 7 Gamma Seven-cylinder, single-row rotary engine. Gnome 14 Gamma-Gamma 14-cylinder, two-row rotary engine using Gamma cylinders. 140 hp (104 kW).
Applications List from Lumsden
Gnome 7 Gamma
Blériot XXI Bristol Biplane Type T Bristol Prier-Dickson Henry Farman Biplane Grahame-White Passenger Biplane VIIc Handley Page H.P.3 Morane-Borel seaplane Nieuport Monoplane Paulhan Biplane Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.3 Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.4 Short School Biplane Short S.32 Short S.36 Short S.38 Short S.45 Sopwith Three-Seater Vickers No.6 Monoplane Vickers No.8 Monoplane
Gnome 14 Gamma-Gamma Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.7 Short S.41
Specifications (Gnome 7 Gamma)
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Bibliography
Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .