Dewoitine D.21
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| D.21 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Fighter aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Dewoitine |
| Maiden flight | 1925 |
The Dewoitine D.21 was 1920s French open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage monoplane fighter aircraft.
[edit] Development
The prototype D.21 was a development of the D.12. The aircraft was licence built in Switzerland (by EKW), Czechoslovakia (by Skoda and known as the Skoda-Dewoitine D.1) and Argentina (by FMA).
[edit] Operational history
Argentina bought seven D.21s, and built another 58 under their own licence. Turkey bought a number, and Czechoslovakia built 25 for their air force.[1]
[edit] Operators
[edit] Specifications (variant)
Data from [1]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Capacity: 1
- Length: 7.64 m (25 ft .75 in)
- Wingspan: 12.8 m (41 ft 0 in)
- Wing area: 24.8 m² (266.95 ft²)
- Empty weight: 1090 kg (2,403 lb)
- Gross weight: 1580 kg (3,483 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 12Gb inline piston engine, 373 kW (500 hp) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 270 km/h (168 mph)
- Range: 400 km (249 miles)
Armament
- 2 fuselage-mounted syncronised 7.7-mm (0.303-in) Vickers machine-guns
- 2 wing-mounted 7.5-mm (0.295-in) Darne machine-guns in the center section (optional)
[edit] References
- ^ a b The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. (1997). Ed. Donald, David. Prospero Books. pg. ISBN 1-85605-375-X.
[edit] See also
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