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Wingspan
  
17 m

First flight
  
May 1917

Length
  
8.99 m

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The Robey-Peters Gun-Carrier was a British three-seater armed tractor biplane designed and built by Robey & Company Limited at Bracebridge Heath, Lincoln for the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).

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The gun-carrier was a single-engined three-bay biplane powered by a 250 hp (186 kW) Rolls-Royce engine. The Gun-Carrier had a gondola on each of the upper wings to carry a Davis gun (a form of recoilless rifle) and a gunner, while the pilot sat alone in a cockpit in the rear fuselage, just forward of the aircraft's tail. He was provided with windows in the sides of the cockpit to improve the extremely poor view caused by the cockpit's location. Two were ordered for the RNAS in May 1916 but the first aircraft (serial number 9498) crashed on its maiden flight from Bracebridge Heath in May 1917. The second aircraft was not completed and no others were built.

Operators

 United Kingdom
  • Royal Naval Air Service, two ordered but only one built.

    • Specifications

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    General characteristics

  • Crew: 3 (pilot and two air-gunners)
  • Length: 29 ft 6 in (8.99 m)
  • Wingspan: 56 ft 6 in (16.62 m)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce Eagle piston engine, 250 hp (186 kW)

    • Armament

  • provision for 2× 2-pdr Davis guns (not fitted)

    • References

    Robey-Peters Gun-Carrier Wikipedia
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