Beardmore W.B.III

Infobox Aircraft
name=WB.III
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type=Carrier-based fighter
manufacturer=William Beardmore and Company
designer=
first flight=1917Sharpe, Michael. "Biplanes, Triplanes, an Seaplanes".Pg 75. London, England: Friedman/Fairfax Books , 2000. ISBN 1-58663-300-7.]
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primary user=Royal Navy
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number built=100
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developed from= Sopwith PupThe Beardmore WB.III was a British carrier-based fighter biplane of World War I. It was a development of the Sopwith Pup that Beardmore was then building under licence, but was specially adapted for shipboard use.

Design and development

It featured a redesigned wing cellule with no stagger, facilitating folding for stowage, a stretched fuselage that carried emergency floatation gear, and main undercarriage that could be folded for stowage (though not in flight). Later examples could also jettison their undercarriage.

One hundred of these aircraft were deployed on the carriers HMS "Furious", "Nairana" and "Pegasus".

Operators

;UK
*Royal Naval Air Service

pecifications

aircraft specifications

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jet or prop?=prop

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crew=1
capacity=
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length main= 20 ft 3 in
length alt=6.16 m
span main=25 ft
span alt=7.62 m
height main=8 ft 1 in
height alt=2.47 m
area main= 243 sq ft
area alt= 22.6 m2
airfoil=
empty weight main= 890 lb
empty weight alt= 400 kg
loaded weight main= 1,290 lb
loaded weight alt= 585 kg
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engine (prop)=Le Rhône 9C
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number of props=1
power main= 80 hp
power alt=60 kW
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max speed main= 103 mph
max speed alt= 166 km/h
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ceiling main= 12,400 ft
ceiling alt= 3,780 m
climb rate main=534 ft/min
climb rate alt= 2.7 m/s
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*Endurance: 2 hours 45 min

guns=1 × fixed, forward-firing .303 in Lewis gun

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References

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sequence= W.B.I - W.B.II - W.B.III - W.B.IV - W.B.V - W.B.VI →

lists=List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service

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