Isotta Fraschini Beta

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Beta
Type Piston aircraft engine
National origin Italy
Manufacturer Isotta Fraschini

The Isotta Fraschini Beta was an air cooled aircraft engine produced by the Italian engineering company Isotta Fraschini in the 1940s.

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Design and development

The Isotta Fraschini derived the Beta inverted 6-cylinder in-line aircraft engine from the Gamma, with which it shared its bore and stroke. The engine had a one-piece aluminium alloy crankcase with steel and aluminium cylinders, each with a single inlet and a single exhaust valve. It had a carburettor designed by Isotta Fraschini and a single speed supercharger. [1] It was produced in small numbers and fitted to a number of Italian training aircraft, including the Nardi FN.316 used in limited quantities by the Regia Aeronautica, Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana and German Luftwaffe during World War II. [2]

Variants

Beta R.C.10 ISZ
300 hp (224 kW) for take-off 270 hp (201 kW) at 1,500 m (4,921 ft)

Applications

Specifications

Data from Wilkinson, 1945 [1]

General characteristics

Components

Performance

See also

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References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Wilkinson 1945, p. 297.
  2. Arena 1996, p. 325.
  3. Thompson 1963, p. 46.
  4. Thompson 1963, p. 13.
  5. Brotzu, Caso, Cosolo 1977, p. 68.
  6. Stocchetti 2009.

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