Vickers Venture

infobox Aircraft
name = Venture
type = Reconnaissance aircraft
manufacturer = Vickers


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first flight = 3 June 1924
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primary user = Royal Air Force
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number built = Six
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developed from = Vickers Vixen
variants with their own articles = The Vickers Venture was a British Army Co-operation aircraft of the 1920's, designed and built by Vickers, as a development of the Vickers Vixen. While six were built for the Royal Air Force, they were found unsuitable and were used for experimental work.

Development and design

The Vickers Type 94 Venture was a further development of the Vickers Vixen II to meet the requirements of Air Ministry Specification 26/27, six aircraft being ordered. The Venture, like the Vixen which formed its basis, was a single bay biplane with a steel tube fuselage and wooden wings. It used the wings of the Vixen II with the lengthened fuselage of the Vixen III. The first Venture flew at Vickers factory at Brooklands on 3 June 1924 cite book |last= Andrews|first=E.N. |coauthors=Morgan, E.B. |title= Vickers Aircraft Since 1908 |edition= Second edition |year= 1988 |publisher= Putnam|location= London |isbn=0 85177 815 1 ] , being sent to the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Martlesham for evaluation. While demonstrating what was said to be "docile" handling , further testing showed that the aircraft had poor longitudinal stability, had a long landing run and was considered too large for use in army co-operation, where it would be expected to operate out of small airstrips Cite book |author=Mason, Francis K |title=The British Bomber since 1914 |publisher=Putnam Aeronautical Books |location= London |year=1994 |isbn= 0 85177 861 5. While it underwent brief Service trials with No. 4 Squadron, the six Ventures were relegated to experimental purposes, the final aircraft being struck off charge in January 1933 .

Operators

;UK
*Royal Air Force

pecifications (Venture)

aircraft specifications
plane or copter?=plane
jet or prop?=prop

ref=The British Bomber since 1914

crew=Two
capacity=
length main= 32 ft 0 in
length alt= 9.76 m
span main= 40 ft 0 in
span alt= 12.20 m
height main= 13 ft 3 in
height alt= 4.04 m
area main= 526 ft²
area alt= 48.9 m²
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empty weight main= 3,140 lb
empty weight alt= 1,427 kg
loaded weight main= 4,890 lb
loaded weight alt= 2,223 kg
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engine (prop)=Napier Lion I
type of prop= 12 cylinder water cooled W-block
number of props=1
power main= 450 hp
power alt= 336 kW
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max speed main= 112 knots
max speed alt= 129 mph, 208 km/h
max speed more= at 10,000 ft
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ceiling main= 19,200 ft
ceiling alt= 8,730 m
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loading main= 9.30 lb/ft²
loading alt= 45.5 kg/m²
thrust/weight=
power/mass main= 0.092 hp/lb
power/mass alt= 0.015 kW/kg
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armament=
*Two forward firing .303 in Vickers machine gun
*One Lewis gun on Scarff ring in observers cockpit

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ee also

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related=*Vickers Vixen
*Vickers Valparaiso

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lists=
*List of aircraft of the RAF
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References