Engineering:Blériot-SPAD S.38
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Short description: 1920s French fighter aricraft
| S.38 | |
|---|---|
| Role | Fighter |
| Manufacturer | Blériot |
| First flight | 1920 |
| Primary user | Aéronautique Militaire |
| Number built | 1 |
The Blériot-SPAD S.38 was a French fighter aircraft developed in the early 1920s.
Design and development
The S.38 was a single-seat fighter plane of all-wood construction with canvas. The aircraft was intended to test a cable hook.
Specifications
Data from [1]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 5.51 m (18 ft 1 in)
- Wingspan: 7.1 m (23 ft 4 in)
- Height: 4 m (13 ft 1 in)
- Wing area: 16 m2 (170 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 380 kg (838 lb)
- Gross weight: 500 kg (1,102 lb)
- Powerplant: × Le Rhône 9C 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine, 60 kW (80 hp)
Performance
See also
References
- ↑ "SPAD S-38 - avion de chasse - Un siècle d'aviation française". Aviafrance.com. 1999-01-26. https://www.aviafrance.com/spad-s-38-aviation-france-5897.htm. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
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