page_title: Bentley BR2
section_title: Applications
hierarchical_section_title: Bentley BR2 / Applications
caption_attribution_description: Gloster Nightjar H8539
context_page_description: The Bentley B.R.2 was a nine-cylinder British rotary aircraft engine developed during the First World War by the motor car engine designer W. O. Bentley from his earlier Bentley BR.1. Coming as it did near the end of the war, the BR.2 was built in smaller numbers than the earlier BR.1 – its main use being by the Royal Air Force in the early 1920s.
context_section_description: The type selected as the standard single-seat fighter of the post-war RAF, the Sopwith Snipe, had been designed around the BR.2, as had its ground attack version, the Sopwith TF.2 Salamander. A number of other experimental and minor production types were either designed for, or otherwise fitted with this power plant during the late "war" years and into the early 1920s.
  Armstrong Whitworth Armadillo
  Austin Osprey
  Boulton Paul Bobolink
  Brennan Helicopter
  Gloster Grouse
  Gloster Nightjar
  Gloster Sparrowhawk
  Grain Griffin
  Handley Page Type S
  Nieuport Nightjar
  Parnall Panther
  Sopwith Buffalo
  Sopwith Gnu
  Sopwith Salamander
  Sopwith Snipe
  Vickers Vampire
caption: Gloster Nightjar during evaluation at Farnborough in 1922
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