Fairey Campania
| Campania | |
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| Fairey F.22 Campania N1006 at Calshot, England | |
| Role | Carrier-borne patrol and reconnaissance aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Fairey Aviation
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| First flight | 16 February 1917 |
| Retired | August 1919 |
| Primary users | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force |
| Number built | 62[1] |
The Fairey Campania was a British ship-borne, patrol and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War and Russian Civil War. It was a single-engine, two-seat biplane with twin main floats and backward-folding wings. The Campania was the first aeroplane ever designed specifically for carrier operations.[1]
Development
The
Operational history
Trials proving satisfactory, the type went into production and service. Most of the F.17s shipped aboard the carriers HMS Campania, HMS Nairana and HMS Pegasus; the first aircraft joined Campania and the type took its name from her. Only Campania possessed a flight deck; Campanias operated from this using jettisonable, wheeled bogies fitted to the floats. The aircraft in the other ships took off from the water in the normal way.
The 27 F.22s operated from Royal Naval Air Service air stations. The Campania had an undistinguished career, but performed useful work as a spotter aeroplane.[1][4]
On 1 August 1918, during the
The Campania was declared obsolete in August 1919.
Variants
- F.16 – 250 hp (190 kW) Rolls-Royce Eagle IV
- F.17 – 275 hp (205 kW) Rolls-Royce Eagle V or 345 hp (257 kW) Eagle III
- F.22 – 260 hp (194 kW) Sunbeam MaoriII
Operators
Specifications (F.22)
Data from Fairey Aircraft since 1915[7]
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 43 ft 1 in (13.13 m)
- Wingspan: 61 ft 7 in (18.77 m)
- Height: 15 ft 1 in (4.60 m)
- Wing area: 674.6 sq ft (62.67 m2)
- Empty weight: 3,672 lb (1,666 kg)
- Gross weight: 5,329 lb (2,417 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Sunbeam Maori IIV-12 water-cooled piston engine, 260 hp (190 kW)
- Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 85 mph (137 km/h, 74 kn)
- Endurance: 4 hours 30 minutes
- Service ceiling: 6,000 ft (1,800 m)
- Time to altitude: 2,000 ft (610 m) in 7 minutes
- Wing loading: 7.90 lb/sq ft (38.6 kg/m2)
- Power/mass: 0.049 hp/lb (0.081 kW/kg)
Armament
- Guns: 1 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis Gun on Scarff ringin rear cockpit
- Bombs: Up to 6 × 116 lb (53 kg) bombs under wings and fuselage.
See also
Related lists
- List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force
- List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service
- List of flying boats and floatplanes
References
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Munson, Kenneth. Flying Boats and Seaplanes since 1910. Blandford.
- ^ Taylor 1988, p.56
- ^ Bruce 1963, pp. 142–143.
- ^ In all, 170 aircraft were ordered, but only 62 were completed.
- ^ Dobson, Christopher, and John Miller, The Day They Almost Bombed Moscow: The Allied War in Russia, 1918–1920, New York: Atheneum, 1986, no ISBN, pp. 63–64.
- ^ Baron, Nick, The King of Karelia: Col. P.J. Woods and the British Intervention in North Russia 1918–1919: A History and Memoir, London, 2007. p. 185.
- ^ Taylor 1988, p.60.
Bibliography
- Bruce, J.M. "Fairey Campania". Air Pictorial, May 1963. pp. 142–145.
- Taylor, H.A. Fairey Aircraft since 1915. London:Putnam, 1988. ISBN 0-370-00065-X.
External links
- Fairey Campania Carrierborne Reconnaissance and Patrol Aircraft – Military Factory