Arsenal VB 10

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name=VB 10


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type=Fighter
manufacturer=Arsenal de l'Aéronautique
designer=Michel Vernisse and M Badie
first flight=7 July 1945
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number built=6
variants with their own articles=The Arsenal VB 10 was a French fighter aircraft developed during and shortly after World War II. It was a low-wing monoplane with retractable tailwheel undercarriage and of largely orthodox configuration. The ultimate product of a design that began with the Arsenal VG 30 prior to the war, the VB 10 added a second engine behind the cockpit which drove a second propeller, coaxial with and counter-rotating to the propeller driven by the engine in the nose.

Although the aircraft was first designed (and indeed ordered) in 1940, little progress was made during France's occupation, and the prototype did not fly until after VE day. By then, it was already apparent that the future of the fighter lay with jet power, but development of the VB 10 continued as a safety net for France's nascent jet fighter programmes. In December 1945, a contract for 200 machines was placed by the French government, the first of which flew on 3 November 1947. By the time the fourth had been delivered in September 1948, the entire order was cancelled, with the French Air Force relying on surplus British and American fighters to tide it over until domestically-produced jet fighters appeared shortly thereafter.

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crew=one, pilot
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length m=12.98
length ft=42
length in=7
span m=15.49
span ft=50
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height m=5.2
height ft=17
height in=1
wing area sqm=35.5
wing area sqft=382
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eng1 number=2
eng1 type=Hispano-Suiza 12Zars-15/16
eng1 kw= 860
eng1 hp= 1,150
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max speed kmh=700
max speed mph=435
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range km=7,700
range miles=1,056
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ceiling m=11,010
ceiling ft=36,120
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climb rate ms=10.2
climb rate ftmin=2,008
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armament1=4 × 20 mm HS-404 cannons
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