Vickers F.B.19

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name=Vickers F.B.19


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type=Single-seat scout
manufacturer=Vickers
designer=G H Challenger
first flight=August 1916
introduced=1916
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primary user=Royal Flying Corps
more users=Russia/USSR
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number built=62
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variants with their own articles=The Vickers F.B.19 was a British single-seat scout of the First World War. It was a single-engine, single-bay, unstaggered equal-span biplane.

Development

The F.B.19 was designed by G H Challenger and first flew in August 1916. It was ordered by the War Office for the RFC.

Operational history

Fifty F.B.19s were built and six were sent to France for operational evaluation. They were found to be unsuitable for the fighting conditions then evolving. A number of F.B.19s were sent to Russia. Those which were still crated on the dockside were destroyed by the Royal Navy after the Revolution but some were used by the Bolshevik forces.

Twelve examples of the Mk II, with staggered mainplanes and a 110-hp (82-kW) Le Rhône or Clerget engine, were built. Several were sent to the Middle East in a batch of twelve F.B.19s. From June 1917, these operated in Palestine and Macedonia but they were not popular and no squadron was fully equipped with the type.

Variants

* F.B.19 Mk I : Single-seat fighter-scout biplane, powered by a 100-hp (75-kW) Gnome Monosoupapa or a 110-hp (82-kW) Le Rhone rotary piston engine.
* F.B.19 Mk II : Single-seat fighter-scout biplane, powered by a 110-hp (82-kW) Clerget or a Le Rhone rotary piston engine.

Aircraft markings

Operators

; USSR; UK
* Royal Flying Corps
** No. 14 Squadron RFC
** No. 17 Squadron RAC
** No. 30 Squadron RFC
** No. 47 Squadron RFC
** No. 111 Squadron RFC
** No. 141 Squadron RFC

Specifications (F.B.19)

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crew=1
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length main= 18 ft 2 in
length alt= 5.54 m
span main= 24 ft 0 in
span alt= 7.31 m
height main= 8 ft 3 in
height alt= 2.51 m
area main= 214.88 ft²
area alt= 19.97 m²
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empty weight main= 893 lb
empty weight alt= 405 kg
loaded weight main= lb
loaded weight alt= 670 kg
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max takeoff weight main= 1,477 lb
max takeoff weight alt= 670 kg
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engine (prop)=Gnome Monosoupape rotary piston
type of prop=2-blade
number of props=1
power main= 100 hp
power alt= 75 kW
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max speed main= 85 knots
max speed alt= 98 mph, 158 km/h
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range main= nm
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ceiling main= 16,995 ft
ceiling alt= 5,180 m
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armament=1 x 0.303-in Vickers machine gun

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