Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 (Scout Experimental 5)

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GENERAL DATA
Type	Fighter, Ground Attack a/c
Manufacturer(s)	Royal Aircraft Factory (UK), Eberhart Steel Products Company (USA)
Prototype first flight	22 November 1916	Introduction	March 1917
Production	5205	Crew	1

Variants
S.E.5	First production version. Single-seat fighter biplane, powered by a 150 hp Hispano-Suiza 8a piston engine.
S.E.5a	Improved production version, powered by a 200 hp Hispano-Suiza 8b V-8 or 200 hp Wolseley Viper piston engine.
S.E.5b	Experimental prototype, with sesquiplane wings, streamlined nose and retractable radiator.
Eberhart S.E.5e	S.E.5a assembled from spare parts by American company Eberhart Aeroplane, 180 hp Wright-Hispano E engine and plywood-covered fuselages, about 60 built.
T.E.1	Drawings for a two seat fighter described as "based on a scaled-up S.E.5" were prepared early in 1917 - the type was to have had a 31 foot 3 inch wingspan, 200 hp Hispano-Suiza 8 engine, and to have been armed with a single forward firing Vickers and a Scarff mounted Lewis for the observer. Six examples ordered but because of the success of the Bristol fighter, and in view of the shortage of Hispano-Suiza engines, none was ever completed.[

ARMAMENT
Guns	1× 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers MG*	Ammunition Carried	400
	1× 0.303 in (7.7 mm) LewisMG **		4 x 97
Other Armament	4x 11 kg Cooper bombs, two under each lower wing, to be dropped in 2, 3, 4, 1 order.

(*) forward-firing Vickers machine gun with Constantinesco interrupter gear, (**) Foster mounting on upper wing

POWERPLANT
Engine	1 × Hispano-Suiza 8 or Wolseley W4A Viper	Type & Displacement	water cooled V8 engine, 11.76 L
Horsepower	200 hp	Power/Weight Ratio	227.27 hp / ton *
Fuel Capacity	148 L

(*) with the maximum takeoff weight

Drawings