Avro 510
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{{Infobox aircraft
|name=510
|image=Avro 510.jpg
|caption=
|type=Racing and patrol seaplane
|manufacturer=Avro
|national_origin=United Kingdom
|designer=
|first_flight=July 1914
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|retired=
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|primary_user=Royal Naval Air Service
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|produced=
|number_built=6
|variants=Avro 519
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The Avro 510 was a two-seat racing seaplane designed by Avro to compete in the 1914 Circuit of Britain Race. It was a conventional two-bay biplane of greatly uneven span, equipped with two large central floats and two outriggers. The race was called off at the outbreak of the First World War, but the British Admiralty was aware of the type and ordered five examples, with modified floats and tail. In service, these proved completely unsuitable, and it was discovered that with a second person aboard, the aircraft could barely fly. In October 1915, the 510s in service were sent to Supermarine for modification and improvement, but by March the following year all were removed from service.Jackson 1990, pp.136–138.
Specifications
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|ref=Avro Aircraft since 1908Jackson 1990, p.138.
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|crew=1
|capacity=1
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|empty weight lb=2080
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|gross weight lb=2800
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|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=Sunbeam Crusader
|eng1 type=V-8 water-cooled piston engine
|eng1 hp=150
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|prop blade number=2
|prop name=fixed-pitch propeller
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|max speed mph=70
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|endurance= 4 hours 30 minutes
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|time to altitude=4{{frac|1|2}} minutes to {{convert|1000|ft|m|0|abbr=on}}
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See also
Notes
{{note label|Note1|a|a}}Most sources give the powerplant of the 510 as a Sunbeam Nubian, an engine that would not yet exist until all the 510s had been withdrawn from service in 1916. The Wolverhampton Museum of Industry website cites Eric Brew's Sunbeam Aero Engines and identifies the 510's engine as a Crusader.
References
{{Reflist|refs=
|url=http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/Transport/planes/SunbeamEngines1.htm
|title= Sunbeam: Side Valve Engines: The Crusader
|access-date=2008-08-02
|website=Wolverhampton Museum of Industry
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080601032600/http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/Transport/planes/SunbeamEngines1.htm
|archive-date=2008-06-01
}}
}}
- {{cite book |title= Avro Aircraft since 1908|last=Jackson |first= A.J. |year=1990 |publisher= Putnam|location=London |isbn= 0-85177-834-8}}
Further reading
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- {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |pages=93 }}
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