Avro Pike

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name=523 Pike


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type=Multi-role military aircraft
manufacturer=Avro
designer=Roy Chadwick
first flight=May 1916
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number built=2
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The Avro 523 Pike (the first Avro aircraft to receive a name) was a British multi-role combat aircraft of the First World War that did not progress past the prototype stage. It was intended to provide the Royal Naval Air Service with an anti-Zeppelin fighter that was also capable of long-range reconnaissance and light bombing. It was a large, three-bay biplane of conventional layout driven by two pusher propellers. Three open cockpits were provided, the centre one for the pilot, and gunners fore and aft of him. The Admiralty evaluated the type, but rejected it. Avro then built a second prototype, changing the original's Sunbeam engines for Green engines instead and designating it the 523A. The Admiralty evaluated this in November, but found that the type was now obsolete and did not place an order. The two prototypes flew as testbeds with Avro for the remainder of the war.

pecifications (523)

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met or eng?= eng
ref=Avro Aircraft since 1908 Jackson 1990, p.148.]

crew=three, pilot and two gunners
capacity=
length m=11.92
length ft=39
length in=1
span m=18.30
span ft=60
height m=3.56
height ft=11
height in=8
wing area sqm=75.7
wing area sqft=815

empty weight kg=1,814
empty weight lb=4,000
gross weight kg=2,756
gross weight lb=6,064

eng1 number=2
eng1 type=Sunbeam Nubian
eng1 kw= 121
eng1 hp= 160

max speed kmh=156
max speed mph=97

endurance h=7
climb rate ms=2.67
climb rate ftmin=526 ref label|Note1|a|a

armament1=1 × flexible .303 Lewis gun in nose
armament2=1 × flexible .303 Lewis gun in rear fuselage
armament3=2 × 112 lb (51 kg) bombs carried in internal bay Mason 1994, p.56.]

References

*note label|Note1|a|aClimb to 5,000 ft (1,524 m) in 9 min 30 sec).

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External links

* [http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/aircraftpage.php?ID=297 britishaircraft.co.uk]

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