M-701 | |
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Motorlet M701 turbojet engine (displayed at the Aviation Museum in Košice, Slovakia) | |
Type | Turbojet |
National origin | Czechoslovakia |
Manufacturer | Motorlet |
First run | 1958 |
Major applications | Aero L-29 Delfín |
Produced | 1961–1989 |
Number built | more than 9,250[1] |
The Motorlet M-701 is a Czechoslovak jet engine. It was used to power the Aero L-29 Delfín jet trainer, with about 9,250 engines built between 1961 and 1989.
In 1955, the Czechoslovakian aero-engine company Motorlet commenced design of a new turbojet engine to power the Aero L-29, a jet trainer being designed by Aero for a competition to equip all Warsaw Pact air forces. The resulting design, designated Motorlet M-701 was a single-shaft centrifugal-compressor turbojet and was the first jet engine designed in Czechoslovakia (although Motorlet had previously built the Klimov VK-1 under license).[2]
The M-701 was first run in 1958, and engine no. 4 was tested on an Avia B-228 flying laboratory in December 1959.[3] Engine no. 8 powered the third prototype L-29 when it flew on 12 July 1960 (the first two prototypes had flown the previous year powered by Rolls-Royce Viper engines). The L-29 was selected as the winner of the competition and was ordered in large numbers, with the M-701 entering production at Jinonice near Prague in 1961. By the time production ended in 1989, more than 9,250 had been built.[3]
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1971-72.[4]