Engineering:Goupy Type A

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Goupy Type A
Role Experimental aircraft
National origin France
Designer Ambroise Goupy
Introduction 1912
Number built Unknown

The Goupy Type A was a staggered biplane designed by Ambroise Goupy in the early 1910s.

Design

The Goupy Type A was a staggered biplane.[1] The similar Goupy Type AA was powered by an Anzani engine.[1]

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913[2]

General characteristics

  • Crew: 1
  • Length: 7.50 m (24 ft 7 in)
  • Wingspan: 8 m (26 ft 3 in)
  • Wing area: 45 m2 (480 sq ft)
  • Empty weight: 300 kg (661 lb)
  • Gross weight: 450 kg (992 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Gnome 7 Omega 7-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine, 37 kW (50 hp)

Performance

  • Maximum speed: 100 km/h (62 mph, 54 kn)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Opdycke, Leonard E. (1999). French Aeroplanes before the Great War. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Limited. pp. 141-143. ISBN 0-7643-0752-5. https://archive.org/details/frenchaeroplanes00opdy. 
  2. Jane, Fred T., ed (1969). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 (Facsimile ed.). Newton Abbott: David & Charles. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-7153-4388-3.