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Wight Converted Seaplane

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Design and development
Operational history
Operators
Specifications (Seaplane – Eagle engine)
See also
References
External links

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The Wight Converted Seaplane was a British twin-float patrol seaplane produced by John Samuel White & Company Limited (Wight Aircraft).

Design and development

Developed from the unsuccessful Wight Bomber for use as an anti-submarine patrol aircraft, the "Converted" Seaplane was a straightforward adaptation of the landplane bomber to a seaplane. The aircraft was a three-bay biplane with unswept, unequal span, unstaggered wings. It had twin floats under the fuselage and additional floats at tail and wings tips. Initial production aircraft were powered by a 322 hp Rolls-Royce Eagle IV engine mounted in the nose driving a four-bladed propeller, with later production batches being powered by a 265 hp (198 kW) Sunbeam Maori engine owing to shortages of Eagles.^[1] Fifty were ordered for the RNAS, of which only 37 were completed.^[1]

Operational history

The Converted Seaplane entered service with the RNAS in 1917,^[1] operating from bases at Calshot, Dover, Portland and Cherbourg.^[1] On 18 August 1917, a Wight Converted Seaplane flying from Cherbourg sank the German U-boat {{SMU|UB-32||2}} with a single 100 lb bomb, the first submarine to be sunk in the English Channel by direct air action.^[1] Seven remained in service with the RAF at the end of the First World War.

Operators

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Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Air Force

Specifications (Seaplane – Eagle engine)

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|jet or prop?=prop
|ref=The British Bomber since 1914 ^[2]
|crew=2
|length main= 44 ft 8½ in
|length alt= 13.63 m
|span main= 65 ft 6 in
|span alt= 19.97 m
|height main= 16 ft
|height alt= 4.88 m
|area main= 715 ft²
|area alt= 66.4 m²
|empty weight main= 3,758 lb
|empty weight alt= 1,708 kg
|loaded weight main=
|loaded weight alt=
|max takeoff weight main= 5,556 lb
|max takeoff weight alt= 2,525 kg
|engine (prop)=Rolls-Royce Eagle IV
|type of prop= V-12
|number of props=1
|power main= 322 hp
|power alt= 240 kW
|max speed main= 73 knots
|max speed alt= 84 mph, 135 mph
|range main=
|range alt=
|ceiling main= 9,600 ft
|ceiling alt= 2,900 m
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|climb rate alt=
|loading main=
|loading alt=
|power/mass main=
|power/mass alt=
|more performance=*Climb to 6,500 ft (2,000 m): 18 min 20 sec

Endurance: 3½ hours

|armament=
}}

References

1. ^¹{{Cite book |author=Thetford, Owen|title=British Naval Aircraft since 1912 |edition =Fourth |publisher=Putnam |location= London|year=1994 |isbn= 0-85177-861-5}}
2. ^¹²³{{Cite book |author=Mason, Francis K |title=The British Bomber since 1914 |publisher=Putnam Aeronautical Books |location= London |year=1994 |isbn= 0-85177-861-5}}

{{cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985)|year= |publisher= Orbis Publishing|location= |issn=}}

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184338/http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/aircraftpage.php?ID=691 Wight Converted Seaplane] – British Aircraft Directory

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