Fairey IIID Specifications
Item Specification
Type Two or three seat general purposes reconnaissance floatplane
Accomodation Pilots seat under cut-out in trailing edge of top wing, with cockpit for either one or two immediately behind. In three seater wireless operator is between pilot and gunner
Power Plant One 570 hp Napier Lion IIB water cooled engine
Armament One fixed Vickers gun firing forward and one Lewis gun over back cockpit. Bombs carried under wings. Prone bombing position in fuselage. 4 x 20lb or 25lb bombs
Wing Span 46ft 1in
Height 13ft
Length 36ft 1in
Weight Empty 4,000 lbs
All Up Weight 5,050 lb
Max Speed 120 mph at 10,000 ft
Climb 15 min 48 sec to 10,000 ft
Max Ceiling 20,000 ft
Max Range 1,520 miles
Description The IIID had an wooden, fabric-covered fuselage and usually a wooden, twin-blade, fixed-pitch propeller.
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