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Type: Fighter |
| Manufacturer:
Sopwith |
| Service:
1918 - 1926 |
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Flight: October 1917 |
| Production:
2097 |
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The Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe was a British single-seat biplane fighter of the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was designed and built by the Sopwith Aviation Company during the First World War.
The Snipe entered operational service near the end of the First World War. It gained a significant number of combat victories in its short operational history during the war. In 1919, the Snipe also took part in the Allied intervention on the side of the White Russians during the Russian Civil War against the Bolsheviks. A small number of RAF Snipes were actually captured by the Bolsheviks and pressed into service. The production of the Snipe ended in 1919, with just under 500 being built, the rest were cancelled due to the wide-ranging postwar cuts imposed on the British armed forces.
Selected as the standard postwar single-seat fighter of the RAF, the last Snipes were retired by that service in 1926.
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| TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS ( Snipe) |
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General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 19 ft 2 in (5.84 m)
- Wingspan: 31 ft 1 in (9.47 m)
- Height: 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m)
- Wing area: 274 ft (25.46 m)
- Empty weight: 1,305 lb (590 kg)
- Loaded weight: 2,105 lb (955 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 x Bentley BR2 rotary engine, 230 hp (172 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 121 mph (195 km/h) at 10,000 ft (3,050 m)
- Service ceiling 20,000 ft (6,100 m)
- Rate of climb: 970 ft/min (296 m/min)
- Endurance: 3 hours
- Time to altitude: 9 min 25 sec to 10,000 ft (3,050 m)
Armament
- Two 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine guns
- Four 25 lb (11 kg) bombs
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