Aeroplane Aviation Archive — Issue 33 The World’s Fastest Aircraft

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T he need for speed’. This natural instinct is embedded in all our psyche, so it is of little surprise that from the moment the ...

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CONTENTS 5 The World’s Fastest Aircraft 6 WRIGHT FLYER 8 BLERIOT XI 10 SPAD XIII 14 RAF SE5A 22 FOKKER DVII 18 SUPERMARINE S 6 2 ...

(^6) UNITED STATES I t is something of a paradox that the slowest aircraft of its time should also be the fastest! But that was ...

WRIGHT FLYER^7 Wright Flyer Max speed: 30mph (48km/h) with later Flyer Engine: 1 x straight- 4 piston engine Power: 12hp Wingspa ...

(^8) FRANCE A viation came of age when Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel on 25 July 1909. For the first time, the po ...

BLERIOT XI^9 The need for speed Louis Blériot himself established two records in his Bleriot XI, culminating in a speed of 47.8m ...

(^10) FRANCE T he SPAD XIII was the ultimate expression of French fighter technology in World War 1. Derived from the highly suc ...

SPAD XIII^11 Above: RFC SPAD XIII B6732 of No 23 Squadron. This aircraft was piloted by Lt Doyle on 26 February 1918 when he was ...

12 FRANCE The need for speed The mount of virtually all the great French aces, and leading Americans such as Eddie Rickenbacker ...

SPAD XIII 13 SPAD XIII Max Speed: 131mph (209km/h) Engine: Hispano-Suiza 8Ba Power: 220hp Length: 20ft 6in (6.25m) Wingspan: 27f ...

(^14) UNITED KINGDOM R egarded by many as the best British fighter of World War 1, the Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a was less nimb ...

The subsequent replacement of the SE5’s 150hp Hispano-Suiza with a more powerful 200hp model, along with further refinements, pr ...

(^16) UNITED KINGDOM RAF SE5a Max Speed: 138mph (222km/h) Engine: Wolseley W.4a Viper Power: 215hp Length: 20ft 11in (6.37m) Win ...

RAF SE5a^17 Left: SE5a E5765 of Capt E. Davies, No 2 Squadron Australian Flying Corps, Auchel, France, November 1918. This aircr ...

21 22 UNITED KINGDOM N owadays, it is di cult to envisage that there was a time when the fastest machines on the planet were se ...

21 22 (^21) UNITED KINGDOM N owadays, it is di cult to envisage that there was a time when the fastest machines on the planet w ...

20 SUPERMARINE S Supermarine S Max speed: 407.5mph (655km/h) Engine: 1 x Rolls-Royce R inline engine Power: 1,900hp Wingspan: 30 ...