- Avro Baby
Infobox Aircraft
name=534 Baby
caption=Bert Hinkler's Avro Baby in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane
type=Sports plane
manufacturer=Avro
designer=Roy Chadwick
first flight=30 April 1919
introduced=
retired=
status=
primary user=
more users=
produced=
number built=9
variants with their own articles=The Avro 534 Baby (originally named the "Popular") was a British light sporting biplane built shortly after the First World War. It was a single-bay biplane of conventional configuration, with equal-span, unstaggered wings. The prototype first flew on
30 April 1919 powered by a Green engine that had previously been installed in theAvro Type D , but crashed two minutes into the flight due to pilot error. The second prototype also crashed, seriously injuring its designerRoy Chadwick , but the Baby soon achieved fame in the hands ofBert Hinkler .On
31 May 1920 , Hinkler made a non-stop flight fromCroydon toTurin in 9 hours 30 minutes - a flight of 655 miles (1,050 km) and celebrated at the time as "the most meritorious flight on record". On24 July , he won second place in the Aerial Derby atHendon , and on11 April 1921 set a new distance record in Australia. He flew the Baby non-stop fromSydney to his home town ofBundaberg 800 miles (1,280 km) away, making the flight in 8 hours 40 minutes. Hinkler's Baby is preserved at theQueensland Museum inBrisbane .In June 1922, another Baby with another pilot made the first flight between
London andMoscow ; and a specially-modified Baby accompaniedErnest Shackleton on his final expedition to the Antarctic.A two-seat variant of the Baby, to be powered by a Gnome rotary engine was proposed as the Avro 554, but this was never actually built.
pecifications (534 Baby)
aircraft specifications
plane or copter?=plane
jet or prop?=propref=
crew=1
capacity=
payload main=
payload alt=length alt=5.34 m
length main=17 ft 6 in
span alt=7.62 m
span main=25 ftheight alt=2.29 m
height main=7 ft 6 inarea main= 180 sq
area alt= 16.7 m2
airfoil=
empty weight main=625 lb
empty weight alt= 283 kg
loaded weight main=857 lb
loaded weight alt= 389 kg
useful load main=
useful load alt=
max takeoff weight main=
max takeoff weight alt=
more general=engine (prop)=Green
type of prop=
number of props=1
power main= 35 hp
power alt=26 kw
power original=max speed alt=126 km/h
max speed main=78 mphcruise speed main=
cruise speed alt=
stall speed main=
stall speed alt=
never exceed speed main=
never exceed speed alt=range alt=386 km
range main=240 miles
ceiling main=
ceiling alt=climb rate alt=2.5 m/s
climb rate main=500 ft/miloading main=
loading alt=
thrust/weight=
power/mass main=
power/mass alt=
more performance=armament=
avionics=
References
*
* [http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/aircraftpage.php?ID=275 britishaircraft.co.uk]ee also
aircontent
related=
similar aircraft=
lists=
see also=
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.