Profile Publications No.1 - S.E.5A

S.E.Sa Squadron. CASTLE

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Photographed (1f Farnborougl: th firs S.E.50's /0 47. lit" 4 7 1 1 t

011

its filial inspection

1917,

Iwo

O/Ie

of

lite co

tw

A4562 5 I93jW.D. A4563

work of

pano-Suiza Ill) may

it

By

(A4845-A4868)

. It h d t

s of r

d s

s e

,a

/917_

ft.! ft.,

climb

9I

ur

B.I-B.200)

and

8501-8700).

20

8926,

(A8898-A8947) in

A4563 of

Farn-

and

A8923A894J-A8947;

of thi unit was

A4563,

prototype

have early

to 0.40.

A4563. underfairing behind

Major

Bleriot

1917

40

with the

t-

h.p,

B4890 !Va.!· captured intact by pa ed it fina in pe ti Of Farnborough rm

it

ke

by

all

un No. 7624

., fined s/II.) dow

Hispano-Suiza

/0

No. 56

SqlladrO/I, Krueger)

[J4885 force-landed

;1

Holland

all

il

E,5a tnsoected

ll

laudtng ;II/(I,{

251h Septembe tandar

1917,

ill whos

markings it is seen 24. riginall this

win

single Le is

011

it

rime of it fo ed Foster

ounting;

Appareml an earl instatlation of ,WOISele Vipe engine th miller-fairing is shallowe than on production Viper-powere

1/

steel-tub

with No 60 Sq "a r()ll,

r.c.

ik

8489

it ha

tlie

undercarriage bill its engine drove two-biade airscrew All S. E.5a 24 Squadron willI reduced dihedral. The and headrest has ve in if Alth ug h«engine isa ip tile offeror retains th« higher Foster mounting that wa standard on S.E.5a's with geared engines.

aircraft

the

/101

of the shape

Th smal number 98 ssencilted Oil tha: this S.E.5a is Cl148. TIJi,· aircraft passed its fina! imp ction Septembe 281h 19/8, when engine No. 2297/ W. D.33397 111February 1919 fitted willi Ro Ai EH(lbli,h/llclIl voriable-pitch airscrew. photograph date June 11 1920 an aircraft standard Vipe installatio and jixed-pild, airscrew; shar exhaus pipe an th oode undercarriage.

.5

Cf091, photographed va iable-pitc al crei

On

pril

6111

20

(Photo

it

an ex erimenta

rown copyri ht

A8923

was

(in

in ]917.

were h.p. Wolseley Hispano-Suizas in which A8923

and A8924

uiza 1,750 r.p.m. Normal

did

in

r.p.m. for the 200 h.p, engine

Of th

h.p. Hispano-Suiza,

later made,

It differed chiefl Ipi

OD

in 291" 1918.

Oil

geared

For Imilling pu pose severa S.E.5u ,· er modified 10 become two- ea ers, to th onsiderabl detr men: of th ir raft's fl il q/lalili~;·. (Photo I. .M.)

84900)

lJ

In

[hat im

43381 [port},

the

cockpi necessitated lite redistribution of th aircraft instru ents am unitto al three guns Obviousl replacin lite

serio

1101

the

li

have escape co

Fairl)' extensiv modification ha 10 be made 10 B4875 ill October /9/7, when II was thre ewis guns Th~fuselage de in ahea of th cockpi as deeRened, al extended windscreen 10 fire upwards 01 IIi! angle of 45 (11101 it thre slots

iii

campleted

ill

lillie

IV""

No.

tho/

000 7/ W.D.34176

as filled, .a

(r(ple mOllllling for modified relJ{r~ section transferred /0 84884 Belleville manufacture,

SOOn

of Delaunay

/I

s. E.5n

in Am

il it tand rd tion of Viper

ic

la

Ju

1921.

av

with form.

in an

B4862 at S.

B4899

airscrews,

84899

gears, Anothe

American S.E.5a

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