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Turbomeca Piméné

1940s French turbojet engine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ7853908 ↗
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The Turbomeca Piméné was a small French turbojet engine produced by Turbomeca in the early 1950s.

First shown at the 1949 Paris Air Show this engine passed official type tests in 1950. A similar, but not directly related, smaller turboshaft, known as the Turbomeca Orédon, drove an alternator and was used as an aircraft auxiliary power unit,

Variants

TR-011

small 0.785 kN (176 lbf) turbojet engine, precursor to the Orédon APU.

Piméné

enlarged 1.079 kN (243 lbf) higher mass flow development of the TR-011 / Orédon.

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