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The SPAD S.XI or SPAD 11 is a French two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War. The SPAD 11 was the work of Louis Béchereau , chief designer of the Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD), who also designed the highly successful SPAD 7 and SPAD 13 single-seat fighter aircraft .
Developed from the SPAD V, of which 268 were ordered but none built as SPAD Vs, the SPAD S.VII was a single-seat tractor biplane fighter of simple and robust design powered by the new Hispano-Suiza water-cooled V-8 engine. Compared to earlier fighters, when the SPAD VII appeared in 1916 it was a heavy and unmanoeuvrable aircraft, but pilots ...
SPAD VII, SPAD S.XII and SPAD S.XIII, French fighter planes of World War I produced by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés; A-1 Skyraider, nicknamed Spad, an attack aircraft (1950s and 1960s) Self-propelled air defence, weapons
The SPAD S.XIII is a French biplane fighter aircraft of the First World War, ... Wing area: 21.11 m 2 (227.2 sq ft) late examples had a wing area of 20.2 m 2 ...
Pages in category "SPAD aircraft" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Data from French aircraft of the First World War, Aviafrance: SPAD S.A-2 General characteristics Crew: Two Length: 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) Wingspan: 9.55 m (31 ft 4 in) some sources give 9.10 m (29.9 ft) Height: 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) Wing area: 25.36 m 2 (273.0 sq ft) Empty weight: 414 kg (913 lb) Gross weight: 674 kg (1,486 lb) Powerplant: 1 × Le Rhône 9J 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine ...
The 13th Aero Squadron SPAD S.XII, showing the slight positive stagger of the wings. No units were entirely equipped with SPAD XIIs. [citation needed] The unknown number of aircraft produced were issued in small numbers, intended for use only by the most skilled pilots, such as Rene Fonck, Lionel de Marmier, Fernand Henri Chavannes, Henri Hay de Slade, Albert Deullin and François Battesti.
[1] [2] A single SPAD S.A-1 was converted with a small circular section pulpit nacelle mounting a mock-up of a fixed forward-firing machine-gun and smaller wings. At least one SPAD S.A-2 was converted to carry three fixed forward-firing machine-guns by the Imperial Russian Air Service in a similar fashion to the S.G. [1]