Avro Type D
The Avro Type D is a double-decker aircraft of the British manufacturer Avro.
History
After Avro had only prescribed the construction of three-deckers in the first three years of production, the first flight of a two-seater Avro biplane was conducted on April 1, 1911 in Brooklands with the Type D.
The machine was among the pilots to be extremely good-natured and easy to fly. A total of six specimens ( seven copies according to other sources ) of type D have been built - all differed in various details such as the engine size from each other.
The British Navy acquired a machine for testing on the airship tender Hermione, who was the first British aircraft carried out a successful water start on 18 November 1911.
A modified Type D was equipped to participate in the Circuit -of- Britain race in the Daily Mail with a water-cooled engine with 45 kW ENV (61 hp). To participate in the race but it did not come because the machine crashed before.
Other alternative engines were a Green- line engine with 34 kW ( 46 hp ), a Viale engine with 26 kW ( 35 hp ) and Isaacson engine with 37 kW (50 hp).
Was produced in the machine Avro production facilities in Manchester and Brooklands, Surrey.
Military use
- Royal Navy