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| An unsponsored private-venture single-seat fighter designed
by Roy Chadwick and flown for the first time in
April 1918, the Spider made use of a number of Avro 504
components and had a fabric-covered wooden structure
with a system of Warren-girder steel-tube interplane
struts. The upper wing was mounted close to the
fuselage and directly above the cockpit. In its original
form, the Spider was powered by a 110hp Le Rhone 9J
nine-cylinder rotary engine, and proved to possess exceptional manoeuvrability, but overall performance
was not sufficiently in advance of the contemporary
Sopwith Camel to warrant quantity production. Armament
comprised one fixed synchronised 7.7mm Vickers machine gun, and a 130hp Clerget 9B
rotary was later fitted, the following details relating to
the Spider fitted with this power plant.
 | A three-view drawing (600 x 443) |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 688 kg | 1517 lb |
| Empty weight | 437 kg | 963 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 8.68 m | 29 ft 6 in |
| Length | 6.25 m | 21 ft 6 in |
| Height | 2.38 m | 8 ft 10 in |
| Wing area | 17.55 m2 | 188.91 sq ft |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 193 km/h | 120 mph |
| lxbfYeaa, e-mail, 14.03.2024 06:38 20 reply | | Stephanie Lawton, e-mail, 07.09.2017 14:10 Hi I work as a volunteer Exhibition Officer at the Solway Aviation Museum, Carlisle,(Registered Charity) and in the process of putting a time-line together on Avro aircraft, as part of a display for next year. I would to ask you for permission to use the image of the Avro Spider, in my display. I will acknowledge ownership of image etc. reply | | Matt, e-mail, 12.09.2011 02:22 It looks cool :) reply |
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