Vickers Type 207
Type 207 | |
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Role | Ship-based torpedo bomber |
National origin | United Kingdom |
Manufacturer | Vickers-Armstrongs |
Designer | R.K Pierson & Barnes Wallis |
First flight | 11 January 1933 |
Number built | 1 |
The Vickers Type 207 was a single-engined two-seat biplane designed as a shipborne torpedo bomber to an early 1930s specification. Structurally innovative, only one was built.
Development
The Vickers Type 207 was often known as the Vickers M.1/30, for it was built to
Like Blackburn, Vickers chose the 825 hp (615 kW) Rolls-Royce H10 engine, later called the
The upper wing was well above the fuselage, braced to it by two pairs of V-form struts on either side; two single struts from the same points on the upper fuselage braced each lower wing. The pilot sat below the wing leading edge and the observer, equipped with a Lewis gun, sat well aft. The split-axle undercarriage allowed torpedo dropping from under the aircraft and was fitted with wheel brakes as its shipborne role required, together with an arrestor hook and tailwheel. The Buzzard's underslung radiator was positioned between the forward undercarriage legs.[1]
The Type 207 flew for the first time on 11 January 1933, with
Specifications
Data from [2]
General characteristics
- Crew: two[3]
- Length: 43 ft 7 in (13.28 m)
- Wingspan: 50 ft 0 in (15.24 m)
- Height: 14 ft 5 in (4.39 m)
- Wing area: 724 sq ft (67.3 m2)
- Empty weight: 5,200 lb (2,359 kg)
- Gross weight: 9,600 lb (4,354 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × V-12 engine, 825 hp (615 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 159 mph (256 km/h, 138 kn) at 4,000 ft (1,200 m)
- Service ceiling: 16,000 ft (4,900 m)
- Time to altitude: 5 min to 4,000 ft (1,200 m)
Armament
- Guns: 1× fixed forward-firing 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun and 1 × Lewis gun in rear cockpit[3]
- Bombs: [3]
- 1 × 1,800 lb (820 kg) torpedo or
- Up to 2,200 lb (1,000 kg) bombs
References
Notes
- ^ a b c d Andrews & Morgan 1988, pp. 291–295, 308, 516
- ^ Andrews & Morgan 1988, p. 308
- ^ a b c Mason 1994, p. 235
Bibliography
- Andrews, CF; Morgan, E.B. (1988). Vickers Aircraft since 1908 (2nd ed.). London: Putnam. ISBN 0-85177-815-1.
- Mason, Francis K. (1994). The British Bomber since 1914. London: Putnam Aeronautical Books. ISBN 0-85177-861-5.