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BMW 117

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The BMW 117 was a piston aircraft engine that BMW developed in the 1930s, initially known as the BMW XV, and development work stopped in 1937. It was a liquid-cooled V12 with a bore of 155.6 millimetres, a stroke of 158 millimetres and a displacement of 36 litres, fitted with a radial supercharger and fuel injection and giving 905 horsepower, or 675 kilowatts, at 2,320 rpm from a compression ratio of 6.5:1. It was 1,809 millimetres long, 740 millimetres wide and 985 millimetres high, and weighed 525 kilograms dry.

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