BMW 003 is an early axial turbojet engine produced by BMW AG in Germany during World War II.
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BMW 003 is an early axial turbojet engine produced by BMW AG in Germany during World War II.
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The only production aircraft to use the BMW 003 were the Heinkel He 162 and the later C-series, four-engined versions of the Arado Ar 234.
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About 3500 BMW 003 engines were built in Germany, but very few were ever installed in aircraft.
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In 1939, BMW 003 bought out Bramo, and in the acquisition, obtained both engine projects.
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General usage of the BMW 003 powerplant was abandoned for the Me 262, except for two experimental examples of the plane known as the Me 262 A-1b.
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Work on the BMW 003 continued anyway, and by late 1942 it had been made far more powerful and reliable.
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BMW 003 utilized nearly the same starting method as its slightly more powerful Jumo 004 competitor: one of Norbert Riedel's 10 PS flat-twin two-stroke engines, installed within the engine's intake diverter as a mechanical APU, to get the 003's central shaft rotating for operation.
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BMW 003 was intended for export to Japan, but working examples of the engine were never supplied.
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BMW 003 was selected as the basis for a gas turbine development project for the German military's anticipated need for what is today called a turboshaft powerplant for multiple needs — this project was called the GT 101, using the BMW 003 axial-flow turbojet as the starting point in mid-November 1944.
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Production of the BMW 003 was set up at the "Red October" GAZ 466 in Leningrad and in Kuznetsov along KMPO, where the engine was mass-produced from 1947 under the designation RD-20 .
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