De Havilland Gipsy Minor

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Gipsy Minor
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de Havilland Gipsy Minor at the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre
Type Piston inline aero-engine
Manufacturer de Havilland Engine Company
First run1937
Major applications
Number built171
Developed from de Havilland Gipsy

The de Havilland Gipsy Minor or Gipsy Junior is a British four-cylinder, air-cooled, inline engine that was used primarily in the de Havilland Moth Minor monoplane, both products being developed in the late 1930s.

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Design and development

The engine was a simplified and smaller version of the earlier de Havilland Gipsy. It featured only one magneto where dual ignition was normal for the Gipsy series of engines. A total of 171 engines were produced, including 100 built in Australia as production moved to that country due to the start of the Second World War. [1]

Applications

Engines on display

Specifications (Gipsy Minor)

Data from [2]

General characteristics

Components

  • Valvetrain: Overhead valve
  • Fuel type: Minimum 70 octane petrol
  • Oil system: Dry sump, gear-type pump
  • Cooling system: Air-cooled

Performance

See also

Related development

Comparable engines

Related lists

References

Notes

  1. Lumsden 2003, p.136.
  2. Lumsden 2003, p.141.

Bibliography

  • Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. ISBN   1-85310-294-6.