Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8

     
Název:
Name:
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8
Originální název:
Original Name:
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8
Kategorie:
Category:
stíhací letoun fighter aeroplane
Výrobce:
Producer:
DD.MM.1915-DD.MM.191R Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough /
DD.MM.191R-DD.MM.191R Darracq Motor Engineering Co. Ltd., Fulham /
DD.MM.191R-DD.MM.191R Vickers Ltd. (Aviation Department), Weybridge /
Období výroby:
Production Period:
DD.MM.1915-DD.MM.191R
Vyrobeno kusů:
Number of Produced:
272
První vzlet:
Maiden Flight:
15.10.1915
Osádka:
Crew:
1
Základní charakteristika:
Basic Characteristics:
 
Vzlet a přistání:
Take-off and Landing:
CTOL - konvenční vzlet a přistání CTOL - conventional take-off and landing
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:
406 kg 895 lb
Vzletová hmotnost:
Take-off Weight:
? kg ? lb
Maximální vzletová hmotnost:
Maximum Take-off Weight:
611 kg 1346 lb
Rozpětí:
Wingspan:
9.6 m 31ft 6in
Délka:
Length:
7.01 m 23ft
Výška:
Height:
2.79 m 9ft 2in
Plocha křídla:
Wing Area:
19.88 m2 214 ft2
Plošné zatížení:
Wing Loading:
? kg/m2 ? lb/ft2
Pohon:
Propulsion:
 
Kategorie:
Category:
pístový piston
Počet motorů:
Number of Engines:
1
Typ:
Type:
Gnome 9B o výkonu 75 kW
čtyřlistá dřevěná vertule
Gnome 9B, power 100 hp
four-blade wooden propeller
Objem palivových nádrží:
Fuel Tank Capacity:
132 l 29 Imp gal
Výkony:
Performance:
 
Maximální rychlost:
Maximum Speed:
151.3 km/h v 0 m 94 mph in 0 ft
Cestovní rychlost:
Cruise Speed:
? km/h v ? m ? mph in ? ft
Rychlost stoupání:
Climb Rate:
? m/s ? ft/min
Čas výstupu na výšku:
Time to Climb to:
9.5 min do 1829 m 9.5 min to 6000 ft
Operační dostup:
Service Ceiling:
4420 m 14500 ft
Dolet:
Range:
? km ? mi
Maximální dolet:
Maximum Range:
? km ? mi
Výzbroj:
Armament:
1x pohyblivý 7,7mm kulomet Lewis 1x flexible .303 Lewis machine gun
Uživatelské státy:
User States:
Poznámka:
Note:
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Zdroje:
Sources:
Hare, Paul R. The Royal Aircraft Factory, Putnam, London 1990. ISBN 0-85177-843-7.
Lamberton, W. M. Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War. Harleyford Publications Ltd, Letchworth 1960.
www.britishaircraft.co.uk/aircraftpage.php?ID=823
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww1/fe8.html

Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 - Prototyp s původním umístěním kulometu v přídi.

Prototyp s původním umístěním kulometu v přídi.
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 - Sériový F.E.8 stojící před továrními budovami ve Farnborough.

Sériový F.E.8 stojící před továrními budovami ve Farnborough.
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the Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8

Fighter Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 is the first fighter of the british air company the Royal Aircraft Factory. Established as one of the first british attempts to stop the domination of the German fighter Fokker Eindecker equipped with machine guns synchronizátory.

Because in 1915 there were still synchronizátory guns in the Uk and France developed, looking for the way to the pilot to allow a clear shot forward. While the French went the way of mounting machine guns above the wing and their oblique placement on the hull, british engineers have relied on a frame structure fighter with a pusher engine behind the pilot. This concept was excellent for the release of the shot in front but was redeemed by the great complication of the structure, its fragility and danger for the pilot in case of an accident (the engine is often plucked from the imposition of and the pilot's crushed).

In the Uk the design of the frame fighter jets launched two air companies. The company Airco designed and built a fighter plane D.H.2, that as the first frame fighters get to the battlefield. A few days after the take-off of the first prototype have been with the company the Royal Aircraft Factory started work on a custom frame fighter jet.

Its design took the designer of J. Kenworthy, who the new fighter brought to the stage of the prototype in less than five months. The first prototype was to test flight ready in October 1915 and 15. 10. 1915 was the [pilot Frank Goodenem. The aircraft was subsequently identified as F.E.8 (Farman Experimental 8). After the completion of factory tests, the aircraft was 8. 11. 1915 transferred to the Central aviation school in Upavonu, where he was to undergo the state air tests. In the course of the aircraft was very well rated and the only real criticism remained complaint on the location of the gun, which was fully movably positioned on the frame on the motor gondola.

The prototype was subsequently 15. 11. 1915 flown back to the air base at Farnborough, where it was severely damaged during the landing and subsequently underwent long repair. The second prototype was 19. 11. 1915 flown to the front, and here subjected to martial tests at 5. squadron the RFC. Here he again received a very good rating because of his agility and speed superior to the German fighters Fokker E.III, which in the meantime have topped in the air over the front.

In the course of these tests has been removed and criticized the assembly of the movable machine gun and replaced by a fixed mounting of a machine gun in front of the pilot in a recess on the upper side of the pilot's nacelle. Thus the modified returned in January 1916 back to Britain, where, together with the corrected first prototype served as the basis for the serial production of F.E.8.

The first squadron of fully armed F.E.8 - 40. squadron - flitted gradually to France 25. 8. 1916 and three days later joined in fighting over the front. 40. squadron in France 21. 10. 1916 added a second fully armed squadron - 41. squadron. But at that time I luck frame the fighters ceased to wish. The deployment of the new German fighters Albatros D.I and D.II broke temporarily-won air supremacy and the F.E.8 and D.H.2 began to gradually change from hunters to prey.

F.E.8 were gradually withdrawn from the queue and replaced by more modern aircraft, up to June 1917, when 41. squadron transmitted last F.E.8 and replaced them aeroplanes the De Havilland D.H.4. Several aircraft F.E.8 was subsequently tested in the system of Home Defence, but their deployment in this service were eventually on the basis of the obsolescence of the structure was rejected and a part of the aircraft has been moved to training units, where it remained until 1918.

Technical description of the aircraft
Fighter Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 was of wooden construction with metal reinforcement stringers gondola and the beams of the tail and wings. The remaining structure was made of wood and plywood. Cover the airplane consisted of impregnated canvas with the exception of the engine nacelles, which was in the area of the pilot covered with a plywood cover and in the engine compartment was covered with metal sheets. The aircraft was equipped with a rotating star engine Gnome Monosoupape with a four-blade propeller in a compression arrangement, and its armament consisted of one fixed unsynchronised Lewis gun caliber 0.303.

an Overview of the units of the RFC/RAF fully armed F.E.8
40. squadron
41. squadron

Sources:
In.Němeček, Military aircraft And
www.letouny.sweb.cz
www.wikipedia.org
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Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8 - F.E.8, trupové číslo 2, sériové číslo 7616, 41. peruť RFC, počátek roku 1917, letiště Abeele. Na tomto stroji se 2/Lt. S. W. Taylor dne 24. 1. 1917 účastnil nerozhodného souboje tří F.E.8 41. perutě proti 4 Rolandům. Později na stroji létal 2/Lt. S. Hay, jenž 12.2. zažil nemilou příhodu, když se mu při startu zablokovalo kolo a začala hořet pneumatika. O tři dny později stroj havaroval a byl odepsán. Stroj je kamuflován standardně, kromě spodních ploch křídel a VOP, jež zůstaly v barvě lakovaného plátna, nese na všech ostatních plochách nátěr khaki PC10. Trupová číslice 2 bývá zpravidla kreslena jako modrá.

F.E.8, trupové číslo 2, sériové číslo 7616, 41. peruť RFC, počátek roku 1917, letiště Abeele. Na tomto stroji se 2/Lt. S. W. Taylor dne 24. 1. 1917 účastnil nerozhodného souboje tří F.E.8 41. perutě proti 4 Rolandům. Později na stroji létal 2/Lt. S. Hay, jenž 12.2. zažil nemilou příhodu, když se mu při startu zablokovalo kolo a začala hořet pneumatika. O tři dny později stroj havaroval a byl odepsán. Stroj je kamuflován standardně, kromě spodních ploch křídel a VOP, jež zůstaly v barvě lakovaného plátna, nese na všech ostatních plochách nátěr khaki PC10. Trupová číslice 2 bývá zpravidla kreslena jako modrá.
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