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    Le Rhône was the name given to a series of rotary aircraft engines built between 1910 and 1920. Le Rhône series engines were originally sold by the Société...
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    The Le Rhône 9J is a nine-cylinder rotary aircraft engine produced in France by Gnome et Rhône. Also known as the Le Rhône 110 hp in a reference to its...
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    Rhône (French: le Grand Rhône) and the Little Rhône (le Petit Rhône). The resulting delta forms the Camargue region. The river's source is the Rhône Glacier...
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    Gnome et Rhône was a major French aircraft engine manufacturer. Between 1914 and 1918 they produced 25,000 of their 9-cylinder Delta and Le Rhône 110 hp...
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    Le Rhône 9C is a nine-cylinder rotary aircraft engine produced in France by Société des Moteurs Le Rhône / Gnome et Rhône. Also known as the Le Rhône 80 hp...
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    Rhône (French pronunciation: [ʁon]; Arpitan: Rôno) is a department of east-central France, in the central-southeastern Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Named...
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    Bouches-du-Rhône (/ˌbuːʃ djuː ˈroʊn/ BOOSH dew ROHN, French: les Bouches-du-Rhône French: [le buʒ dy ʁon], locally [le ˈbuʃə dy ˈʁɔnə]; Occitan: lei Bocas...
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    cultural regions, which was already true of Rhône-Alpes, as well as Auvergne, to a lesser extent. While the old Rhône-Alpes and Auvergne regions each enjoyed...
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    The prototype and most production Pups were powered by the 80 hp (60 kW) Le Rhône 9C rotary engine. The armament was a single 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine...
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  • wine grown in France Le Rhône, a type of aircraft engine initially created in 1910 by Société des Moteurs Le Rhône Gnome et Rhône (1915–1945), a French...
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    Côtes du Rhône is a wine-growing Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for the Rhône wine region of France, which may be used throughout the region, also...
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    ground runs and in flight. Rotary engines produced by the Clerget and Le Rhône companies used conventional pushrod-operated valves in the cylinder head...
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    primarily in the adoption of the lower powered 80 hp (60 kW) Le Rhône 9C or 90 hp (67 kW) Le Rhône 9Ga engine. This increased endurance and reduced wing loading...
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    The Gnome-Rhône 14N was a 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine designed and manufactured by Gnome-Rhône just before the start of World War II...
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  • Gnome engine design and the similar Le Rhône 9C. They produced both, the Gnomes as the U-series, and the Le Rhônes as the UR-series. The Gnome Lambda seven-cylinder...
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    eventually producing the engine. In France, Gnome-Rhone produced a version known as the Gnome-Rhône 9 Jupiter that was used in several local civilian...
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    Hispano-Suiza 8, and the other by an 80 hp (60 kW) Le Rhône 9C. Nieuport 20 Version powered by 110 hp (82 kW) Le Rhône 9J. Not used by France, but 21 delivered...
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  • biplane around the most powerful engine available to them, a 149 kW (200 hp) le Rhône M. The result was a reasonably conventional design, other than that the...
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    The Gnome-Rhône 14K Mistral Major was a 14-cylinder, two-row, air-cooled radial engine. It was Gnome-Rhône's major aircraft engine prior to World War II...
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    The Rhône wine region in Southern France is situated in the Rhône valley and produces numerous wines under various Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC)...
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    V struts to the lower longerons. David was powered by a 60 hp (45 kW) Le Rhône 9Z rotary engine, neatly enclosed within an aluminium cowling and driving...
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    region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône and the Alps...
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  • 127–134 kW (170–180 hp) Le Rhône 9R engine, though for about fours months of initial testing it was fitted with a 89 kW (120 hp) Le Rhône 9Jb. All of these...
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    Rhône 9C Le Rhône 9J Le Rhône 9R Le Rhône 9Z Le Rhône 11F Le Rhône 14D Le Rhône 18E (1912) Le Rhône 18E (1917) Le Rhône 28E Le Rhône K Le Rhône L Le Rhône...
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    (1,633 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Le Rhône radial piston engine, 180 hp (130 kW) (a 220 hp Bentley rotary engine replaced Le Rhône after early testing). Main...
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    Côte-Rôtie AOC (category Rhône wine AOCs)
    in the northern Rhône wine region of France. The vineyards are located just south of Vienne in the communes of Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône, Ampuis, and Tupin-et-Semons...
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  • in 1928 through the merger of Société des usines chimiques du Rhône (Society of Rhône Chemical Factories) from Lyon and Poulenc Frères (Poulenc Brothers)...
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    In World War I many French and other Allied aircraft flew with Gnome, Le Rhône, Clerget, and Bentley rotary engines, the ultimate examples of which reached...
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    Foster mounting, and powered by 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome or 110 hp (82 kW) Le Rhône engines. 274 converted Avro 504Js and Ks were issued to eight home defence...
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  • Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ siʁ syʁ lə ʁon], literally Saint-Cyr on the Rhône) is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern...
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