Vickers Hydravion
| Hydravion | |
|---|---|
| Role | Flying boat |
| National origin | United Kingdom |
| Manufacturer | Vickers-Armstrongs |
| First flight | 1912 |
| Number built | 1 |
The Vickers Hydravion (No.14) was a British seaplane built by Vickers in the early 1910s.
Design
[edit]The Hydravion was a large seaplane of biplane configuration, which relied on the design philosophy of Henri Farman by utilizing a pusher engine and the tail being supported on outrigger booms. Only one seaplane version was built, and it crashed at Dartford during early tests.[1][2]
A later version of the Hydravion, the Vickers No. 14B, would have had two 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome 9 Delta engines in tandem configuration buried in the fuselage, driving tractor propellers as well as a nose-mounted 37 mm (1.457 in) semi-automatic cannon.
Specifications
[edit]Data from British Aircraft 1809-1914[3]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 3 passengers
- Length: 43 ft (13 m)
- Wingspan: 72 ft 8 in (22.15 m)
- Height: 12 ft 2 in (3.71 m)
- Wing area: 819 sq ft (76.1 m2)
- Gross weight: 2,400 lb (1,089 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Gnome 9 Delta 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engines, 100 hp (75 kW)
- Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch pusher propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 51.5 mph (82.9 km/h, 44.8 kn)
- Stall speed: 32 mph (51 km/h, 28 kn)
References
[edit]- ^ Andrews, C.F; Morgan, E.B. (1988). Vickers aircraft since 1908 (New. ed.). London: Putnam. pp. 42–43. ISBN 0-85177-815-1.
- ^ Tagg, Michael H. (2001). British aircraft before the Great War. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub. p. 321. ISBN 978-0764312076.
- ^ Lewis, Peter (1962). British Aircraft 1809-1914. London: Putnam. p. 506.