Polish Aviation Museum Cracow

31-864 Kraków,
al. Jana Pawła II 39
phone: (12) 640 99 60,
(12) 642 40 70
e-mail: info@muzeumlotnictwa.pl

a cultural institution of the Malopolska Region

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Aircraft engine: Salmson 9 Z

France
radial engine
1917

Configuration	9-cylinder radial
Cooling	water-cooled
Displacement	18.7 l (1,141.14 cu in)
Power output	260 hp

A radial engine unorthodox in being water-cooled.

The engine was designed by a duo of Swiss designers Georges Marius Henri-Georges Canton and Pierre Unné and built at Societe de Moteurs Salmson in Billancourt. The Z 9 was another of a series of water-cooled Salmson radials. It was used in the Salmson 2A2 and Farman F.60 Goliath aircraft.

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