Avro 519
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{{Infobox aircraft
|name=519 and 522
|image=|Avro 519
|caption=Avro 519
|type=Bomber
|manufacturer=Avro
|national_origin =United Kingdom
|designer=
|first_flight=1916
|introduction=
|retired=
|status=
|primary_user=
|more_users=
|produced=
|number_built=4
|developed_from =Avro 510
|variants=
}}
The Avro 519 was a British bomber aircraft of the First World War, a development of the Avro 510 seaplane. They were two-bay biplanes of conventional configuration with greatly uneven span. Two single-seat examples, powered by a single 150 hp (110 kW) Sunbeam water-cooled engine, were ordered by the RNAS in early 1916. This was soon followed by orders for two modified aircraft for the Royal Flying Corps. These were fitted with seats for a crew of two and had more powerful (225 hp/168 kW) Sunbeam engines
The first of the two-seaters was designated 519A to reflect its modifications. The second two-seater, however, was so different that it received a completely new number from Avro - 522 - and featured new wings with both upper and lower wings of equal but greater span, in the hope that this would rectify the type's poor climbing performance.
Never used operationally, all four were used for flight testing with the last still in service in April 1917.
There are some indications that the Avro 522A formed part of the equipment of 2 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force in the 1920s.
Specifications (519)
{{Aircraft specs
|prime units? = imp
|ref= Avro Aircraft since 1908 Jackson 1990, p.142.
|crew=one pilot
|length m=9.98
|length ft=32
|length in=9
|span m=19.21
|span ft=63
|height m=3.56
|height ft=11
|height in=8
|wing area sqm=55.8
|wing area sqft=600
|gross weight kg=1,360
|gross weight lb=3,000
|eng1 number=1
|eng1 name=Sunbeam Nubian V-8
|eng1 kw=112
|eng1 hp=150
|max speed kmh=121
|max speed mph=75
|climb rate ms=1.0
|climb rate ftmin=200
|armament = *Bombs carried on underfuselage racks
}}
See also
References
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- {{cite book |title= Avro Aircraft since 1908|last=Jackson |first= A.J. |year=1990 |publisher= Putnam|location=London |isbn= 0-85177-834-8}}
- {{cite book |title= The British Bomber since 1912|last= Mason|first=Francis K. |year= 1994|publisher=Putnam |location=London |isbn=0-85177-861-5 }}
- {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |pages=93 }}
- {{cite book | title= History of the Royal Canadian Air Force |last =Shores |first= Christopher |year=1984 |publisher= Royce |location= Toronto |isbn= 0-86124-160-6 |page= 18}}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184136/http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/aircraftpage.php?ID=295 Avro 519] – British Aircraft Directory
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