Airco DH.10 Amiens

Airco DH.10 Amiens
Type:	three-seat day bomber
Design country:	United Kingdom
Manufacturer:	Aircraft Manufacturing Company
First flight:	March 4, 1918
Commissioning:	1918
Number of pieces:	266

The Airco DH.10 Amiens is a twin-engine British biplane .

history

In 1916, Geoffrey de Havilland designed his first twin-engine bomber, the Airco DH.3 . However, the two prototypes never got beyond the testing stage and were finally scrapped in 1917. De Havilland revised the concept, however. When more powerful engines were available, he developed the DH.10. The concept worked and the British military ordered a total of 1290 pieces. However, only 266 were built as the war ended. The planes remained in active service until 1927.

One machine each was used by Aircraft Transport & Travel in Great Britain and one by the US Post Office for airmail services in the USA .

Prototypes

• Amiens I had two six - cylinder Siddeley Puma in- line engines , each with 230 HP (171 kW) and pusher propellers .
• Amiens II had two twelve-cylinder - V-engines Rolls-Royce Eagle III with 360 hp (298 kW) and conventional train propeller .
• Amiens III was the later production model with two V12 engines of the Packard - Liberty type, each with 400 HP (313 kW) and also with pull-propellers.

Military use

 United Kingdom

• Royal Air Force

Technical specifications

Parameter	Data
crew	3
length	12.08 m
span	19.96 m
height	4.02 m
Takeoff mass	4082 kg
Top speed	180 km / h
Service ceiling	5030 m
Flight duration	5:45 h
Engines	Two twelve-cylinder - V-engines Packard - Liberty with 400 hp (313 kW)
Armament	One or two 7.7 mm Lewis MGs on turntables in the bow and stern stands, external mounts for bombs up to 408 kg

literature

• AJ Jackson: British Civil Aircraft since 1919. Volume 2. 2. Ed., Putnam, London 1973, ISBN 0-370-10010-7 .
• AJ Jackson: De Havilland Aircraft since 1909. Putnam, London 1987, ISBN 0-85177-802-X .
• Phillip Jarrett: By Day and By Night - Part Four. In: Airplane Monthly. September 1992, Vol. 20 No. 9, ISSN  0143-7240 , pp. 13-20.
• Francis K. Mason: The British Bomber since 1914. Putnam Aeronautical Books, London 1994, ISBN 0-85177-861-5 .
• Michael Sharpe: biplanes, triple decks & seaplanes. Gondromverlag, Bindlach 2001, ISBN 3-8112-1872-7 .
• Owen Thetford: By Day and By Night - Part Five. In: Airplane Monthly. October 1992, Vol. 20 No. 10, ISSN  0143-7240 , pp. 6-11.

Web links

Commons : Airco DH.10  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Owen Thetford: By Day and by Night - Airco DH. 10 Amiens. Part 2. In: Airplane Monthly. October 1992, p. 7.