Curtiss F8C-4 Helldiver

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Název:
Name: 		Curtiss F8C-4 Helldiver Curtiss F8C-4 Helldiver
Originální název:
Original Name: 		Curtiss F8C-4 Helldiver
Kategorie:
Category: 		víceúčelový bojový letoun multi-role combat aeroplane
Výrobce:
Producer:		 DD.MM.1929-DD.MM.1930 Curtiss-Wright Corp., Buffalo, New York
Období výroby:
Production Period: 		DD.MM.1929-DD.MM.1930
Vyrobeno kusů:
Number of Produced: 		26 (A8314, A8421/8445)
První vzlet:
Maiden Flight: 		DD.04.1929 XF8C-4
Osádka:
Crew: 		2
Základní charakteristika:
Basic Characteristics:		 
Vzlet a přistání:
Take-off and Landing: 		CTOBAR - standardní vzlet, přistání s pomocí brzdících lan CTOBAR - conventional take-off but arested recovery
Uspořádání křídla:
Arrangement of Wing: 		dvouplošník biplane
Uspořádání letounu:
Aircraft Concept: 		klasické conventional
Podvozek:
Undercarriage:		 pevný fixed
Přistávací zařízení:
Landing Gear:		 kola wheels
Technické údaje:
Technical Data: 		 
Hmotnost prázdného letounu:
Empty Weight: 		1140 kg 2513 lb
Vzletová hmotnost:
Take-off Weight: 		1713 kg 3776 lb
Maximální vzletová hmotnost:
Maximum Take-off Weight: 		1922 kg 4238 lb
Rozpětí:
Wingspan: 		9.75 m 32ft
Délka:
Length: 		7.92 m 25ft 11,88in
Výška:
Height: 		3.10 m 10ft 2in
Plocha křídla:
Wing Area: 		28.61 m2 308 ft2
Plošné zatížení:
Wing Loading: 		? kg/m2 ? lb/ft2
Pohon:
Propulsion:		 
Kategorie:
Category:		 pístový piston
Počet motorů:
Number of Engines:		 1
Typ:
Type:		 Pratt & Whitney R-1340-88 o výkonu 336 kW
dvoulistá kovová vrtule		 Pratt & Whitney R-1340-88, power 450 hp
two-blade metal propeller
Objem palivových nádrží:
Fuel Tank Capacity: 		515 l 136 US gal
Výkony:
Performance: 		 
Maximální rychlost:
Maximum Speed: 		220.5 km/h v 0 m 137 mph in 0 ft
Cestovní rychlost:
Cruise Speed: 		186.7 km/h v 1829 m 116 mph in 6000 ft
Rychlost stoupání:
Climb Rate: 		5.2 m/s 1030 ft/min
Čas výstupu na výšku:
Time to Climb to: 		6 min do 1524 m 6 min to 5000 ft
Operační dostup:
Service Ceiling: 		6035 m 19800 ft
Dolet:
Range: 		727.4 km 452 mi
Maximální dolet:
Maximum Range: 		? km ? mi
Výzbroj:
Armament: 		2x pevný 7,62mm kulomet Browning v horním křídle
2x dvojitý 7,62mm kulomet Lewis na oběžném kruhu Scarff

227 kg bomb		 2x fixed .30 Browning machine gun in the upper wing
1x twin .30 Lewis machine gun on Scarff ring

500 lb of bombs
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Zdroje:
Sources: 		Swanborough, F. G., Bowers, P. M.: US Navy Aircraft Since 1912, Putnam Aeronautical Books, London 1990. ISBN 0-85177-838-0
Bowers, P. M.: Curtiss Aircraft 1907-1947, Putnam Aeronautical Books, London 1979. ISBN 0-370-10029-8
Jones, LLoyd S.: U.S. Naval Fighters 1922 to 1980s, Aero Publishers, Fallbrook 1977, ISBN 0-81689-254-7
http://www.aerofiles.com/_curt.html
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww1/f8c.html

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In April 1929 he was the navy handed over to the second prototype Helldiveru, designated XF8C-4. From the previous XF8C-2 from the outside differ mainly by replacing the spur wheel with olejopneumatickým suspension. Soon after he was followed by twenty-five serial machines, which in the course of the year 1930 have entered into service with the fighter squadrons VF-1B on the carrier the USS Saratoga. Flight characteristics and durable construction originally pilots excited enough to overlook the shortcomings of the construction, but soon to take effect. The main problem was the significant decline in performance between the prototypes and fully equipped with serial machines, which have failed to keep up with your jednomístnými counterparts and years in a mixed formation, which required the tactics to them one-man machines have had to adapt. Problems amounted also to an overheating engines, lack of range and cover the tail surfaces, which are in a dive plucked. They didn't so to the main task, for which they were ordered, and already in January 1932, after a year of operation, were moved to the naval air reserve in Long Beach, where to withstand up to mid-30. years. Other machines, meanwhile, ordered as a modified F8C-5, have been completed without landing hooks and allocated to the marine corps. The reputation of the VF-1B but not yet reached Hollywood, and the squadron and its Helldivery she starred in the movie, aptly called Hell Divers, whose main star was Clark Gable..
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