War Planes of the First World War, Volume 1Macdonald, 1965 - Airplanes, Military |
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200 h.p. Hispano-Suiza aeroplane ailerons ailerons were fitted airframe airscrew anti-airship Armament Armstrong-Whitworth Avro Bantam biplane Bristol F.2B Bristol Scout built centre section chord Climb details available Dimensions Eastchurch Empty Endurance engine cowling Farnborough fin and rudder flight flown Frank Barnwell fuselage Gnôme Monosoupape ground level h.p. Clerget h.p. Gnôme Monosoupape h.p. Le Rhône h.p. Sunbeam Hispano-Suiza engine installation interplane struts Isle of Grain Le Rhône 9J length Lewis gun Lewis machine-gun loaded longerons lower wings m.p.h. at ground machine Martinsyde S.1 Martlesham Heath Maximum speed modified monoplane Nieuport Nighthawk nine-cylinder rotary engine original form Performance pilot sat production radial engine radiator rear cockpit Rhône engine Rolls-Royce Falcon rotary engine Scarff ring Scout F Service ceiling seven-cylinder Single-seat Fighter Single-seat Scout Sopwith Span spars spinner Squadron synchronized 0.303-in tail unit tailplane triplane undercarriage upper longerons upper wing V-struts Vickers gun Vickers machine-guns Weights wing area