Sunbeam Bomber
by last date | by total length | by number


LATEST COMMENTS

29.03.2024 12:12

Mikoyan/Gurevich Ye-8

28.03.2024 13:52

Short S.8/8 Rangoon

27.03.2024 22:04

25.03.2024 18:02

25.03.2024 04:10

22.03.2024 19:36

21.03.2024 23:56

Robin HR.200

21.03.2024 14:54

20.03.2024 19:36

20.03.2024 18:42

20.03.2024 14:05

Blackburn B-101 Beverley

19.03.2024 02:12

18.03.2024 22:06

Supermarine Spitfire

18.03.2024 22:02

Canadair CL-41 "Tutor"

18.03.2024 16:30

Bachem Ba 349 Natter

18.03.2024 14:47

18.03.2024 03:41

Curtiss Eagle

18.03.2024 00:04

17.03.2024 20:30

Junkers Ju 390

17.03.2024 16:34

AIDC Ching-Kuo

17.03.2024 10:52

15.03.2024 23:56

Messerschmitt Me 309

14.03.2024 07:03

Bartel BM.2

14.03.2024 07:02

Boeing B-50

14.03.2024 07:02

14.03.2024 07:02

14.03.2024 07:01

Beech Model 2000 Starship

14.03.2024 07:01

Beech Model 18

14.03.2024 07:01

14.03.2024 07:01


Barry, 04.12.2015 14:15

Built to the same concept as the private venture Sopwith B1 the Sunbeam was in response to an Admiralty specification for a single engine, single seat bomber. With the fuel tanks in the fuselage above the c of g the pilot sat to the rear of the fuselage. With bomb racks under the wings and a synchronised Vickers .303" machine gun above the engine, some 13 feet from the pilot, which meant he had no way of clearing it should it jam the Sunbeam was overweight and under powered. It's performance was not as good as the Sopwith and neither of them held a candle to the DH 4 and the later DH 9. Only one flew another one in development was scrapped.
Engine: Sunbeam Arab V8 water cooled developing 200 h.p.


Bob, e-mail, 15.12.2014 23:56

Wikki claims it was in fact a V12


Tony Lyndon, e-mail, 15.12.2014 11:29

The Arab is a V8 not in-line.




All the World's Rotorcraft


Virtual Aircraft Museum