Aerospace Engines A to Z
Aerospace Engines A to Z

Updated: 30-Jul-2020

Miesse made a 100 CV, horizontally, 8-cylinder radial engine with a vertical crankshaft. It was mounted on the Belgian De la Hault helicopter in 1908.

From Appendix 7: Before the First World War, this brand of engines offered two models, a four-cylinder 50-60 CV and the 100 CV 8-cylinder.

From Appendix 9: No image of this brand appears in the main text. Now we have found one in an old, translated text.

-It is a twelve cylinder (?) Although the author only counts eight. The magneto is on top of the engine.

Miesse engine drawing
“Miesse engine drawing”

-It gave 120 CV weighing 92 Kg. In the Spanish translation, the crankshaft crankpin journals are mentioned as “manetones”.

-It is insisted that the crankshaft with two crankpin journals, each of them was connected with 6 connecting rods "with the help of a special connection that allows a wide useful range to be obtained".

-Referring to the contradiction of 8 or 12 cylinders, it could be that the author refers to two engines: one in the text and the other in the figure below it.

-The cylinders have cooling fins and under the engine there is a fan.

From Appendix 12: This brand appears in an old UK publication. Possibly a licensed representative or manufacturer.

Miesse 100 HP UK ad
“Miesse 100 CV UK ad”

Engines of MIESSE

Model: 4-cyl.

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Model: 6-cyl

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Model: 8-cyl. hor.

Arquitecture: Radial
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Radial engine with vertical crankshaft