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French reconnaissance flying boat
The Blanchard Brd.1 was a French
reconnaissance
flying boat, to the
1923 STAé HB.3 specification, used by the
French navy in the 1920s. It was a large
biplane with two
engines mounted in the gap between the wings, each engine driving a
pusher propeller. In
1924, one Brd.1 was used to set several world altitude records for seaplanes.
Operators
France
Units using this aircraft
Aéronautique Maritime
Specifications
Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1924,
[1] Aviafrance:Blanchard Brd-1
[2]
General characteristics
- Crew: 3/4
- Length: 13.6 m (44 ft 7 in)
- Wingspan: 19.2 m (63 ft 0 in)
- Height: 4.2 m (13 ft 9 in)
- Wing area: 85 m2 (910 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 2,300 kg (5,071 lb)
- Gross weight: 3,765 kg (8,300 lb)
- Powerplant: 2 ×
Hispano-Suiza 8Fe V-8 water-cooled piston engines, 190 kW (260 hp) each
- Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propellers
Performance
- Maximum speed: 175 km/h (109 mph, 94 kn)
- Service ceiling: 3,500 m (11,500 ft)
- Time to altitude: 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in 30 minutes
- Wing loading: 43 kg/m2 (8.8 lb/sq ft)
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Power/mass: 0.1034 kW/kg (0.0629 hp/lb)
Armament
- 1 × 7.7 mm (0.303 in) machine-gun on flexible mount in bow
- 1 × 7.7 mm (0.303 in) machine-gun in flexible mount in rear fuselage
- 290 kg (640 lb) of bombs
See also
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
References
Further reading
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 161.