Avro 560
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| Type: | Sport plane |
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1923 |
| Number of pieces: |
1 |
The Avro 560 was a relatively small single-seat aircraft from the British manufacturer Avro , developed personally by company boss Alliott Verdon Roe for an endurance event for small aircraft. October 1923 took place in Lympne .
history
Avro chief designer Roy Chadwick built the Avro 558 biplane for the same event . In contrast to Chadwick's design, Roes Avro 560 was designed as a monoplane. The consistently light construction was powered by an air-cooled Blackburn Tomtit engine - a V-twin.
Originally Roe had planned to equip the machine with two wings of different lengths depending on the task at hand, but the competition rules forbade this. After the competition, the machine was converted and flown by Avro chief test pilot Bert Hinkler with the smaller areas.
Since the British Ministry of Aviation was looking for a small and inexpensive training and liaison aircraft, Avro equipped the 560 with a further developed Tomtit engine and landing gear (originally used in the first example of the Avro 558 ) and presented the machine to the Ministry available for testing. After these tests, however, the British Air Force opted for the competitor De Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird , so it remained with the only Avro 560 built .
The construction of another light monoplane with the type designation Avro 549 began, but the aircraft was never completed.
construction
The Avro 560 was a monoplane with a fabric-covered wooden fuselage, and the continuous wing construction with ailerons was also fabric-covered. The chassis consisted of two light wooden wheels with rubber shock absorbers and a rigid tail spur.
Technical data (if known)
| Parameter | Data |
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| crew | a pilot |
| length | 6.40 m |
| span | 10.97 m |
| Wing area | 12.83 m² |
| Empty mass | 129.27 kg |
| Max. Takeoff mass | 213.64 kg |
| drive | a 698 cc air-cooled Blackburn Tomtit engine |
See also
literature
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft. (Part Work 1982-1985), Orbis Publishing.
- AJ Jackson: Avro Aircraft since 1908. Putnam Aeronautical Books, London 1990, ISBN 0-85177-834-8 .
