Engineering:Blériot-SPAD S.42
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Short description: 1920s French training aircraft
| S.42 | |
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| Role | biplane trainer |
| National origin | France |
| Manufacturer | SPAD |
| Designer | Louis Béchéreau |
| First flight | 6 August 1921 |
| Primary user | Aéronautique Militaire |
| Number built | 10 |
The SPAD S.42 was a French biplane trainer aircraft of the early 1920s, developed by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD) from prolific SPAD S.XIII fighter.
Specifications
Data from [1]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 6.77 m (22 ft 3 in)
- Wingspan: 8.65 m (28 ft 5 in)
- Height: 2.65 m (8 ft 8 in)
- Wing area: 22.12 m2 (238.1 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 685 kg (1,510 lb)
- Gross weight: 1,056 kg (2,328 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 8Ab V-8 water-cooled piston engine, 130 kW (180 hp)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 175 km/h (109 mph, 94 kn)
- Range: 450 km (280 mi, 240 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 5,500 m (18,000 ft)
References
- ↑ "SPAD S-42 - avion d'entrainement - Un siècle d'aviation française". Aviafrance.com. 2004-01-19. https://www.aviafrance.com/spad-s-42-aviation-france-116.htm. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
Bibliography
- Andersson, Lennart (July 1998). "Histoire de l'aéronautique persane, 1921–1941: La première aviation du Chah d'Iran" (in French). Avions: Toute l'aéronautique et son histoire (76): 2–12. ISSN 1243-8650.
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