Bentley BR2
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The Bentley B.R.2 was a nine-cylinder British rotary aircraft engine developed during the First World War by the motor car engine designer W. O. Bentley from his earlier Bentley BR.1. The BR.2 was bui
B.R.2 engine on display at the RAF Museum London
Gloster Nightjar during evaluation at Farnborough in 1922
Manufacturer's plate (dated November 1917) and valve operating gear of the BR.2 engine on display at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford
Sopwith Snipe
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The Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe is a British single-seat biplane fighter of the Royal Air Force. It was designed and built by the Sopwith Aviation Company during the First World War, and came into squadron ser
Bentley BR2
…engine could not be further developed, due to its inherent limitations. The type selected as the standard single-seat fighter of the post-war RAF, the Sopwith Snipe, had been designed around the BR.2, as had its ground attack version, the Sopwith TF.2 Salamander. A number of other experimental and minor production…
A Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe replica
William George Barker's Snipe
E6655 at the Royal Air Force Museum London
E6938 at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa