de Havilland Gipsy Major
1930s British piston aircraft engine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The de Havilland Gipsy Major or Gipsy IIIA is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted inline engine used in a variety of light aircraft produced in the 1930s, including the famous Tiger Moth biplane. Many Gipsy Major engines still power vintage aircraft types.
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Gipsy Major | |
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Gipsy Major 31 engine on display at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum | |
Type | Piston inline aero-engine |
Manufacturer | de Havilland Engine Company |
First run | 1932 |
Major applications | de Havilland Tiger Moth de Havilland Canada Chipmunk |
Number built | 14,615 |
Developed from | de Havilland Gipsy |
Developed into | de Havilland Gipsy Six |
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Engines were produced by de Havilland in the UK and by the Australian arm of the company, de Havilland Australia, the latter modifying the design to use imperial measures rather than the original metric measurements.[citation needed]