Dewoitine D.21
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| D.21 | |
|---|---|
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| Argentine Dewoitine D.21 | |
| Role | Fighter |
| Manufacturer | Dewoitine |
| First flight | 1925 |
The Dewoitine D.21 was 1920s French open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage, parasol winged monoplane fighter aircraft.
Design and development
[edit]The prototype D.21 was a development of the D.12. The aircraft was license-built in Switzerland (by EKW), Czechoslovakia (by Skoda and known as the Skoda-Dewoitine D.1) and Argentina (by FMA). One Turkish D.21 was fitted with a modified wing and named Orhanelli.
Operational history
[edit]Argentina bought seven French-built D.21s, and built another 38 under license by FMA from 1929 to 1932. The type remained in service until 1941.[1] Turkey bought a number, and Czechoslovakia built 25 for their air force.[2]
Variants
[edit]- D.21 C.1
- French Production version, license-built in Argentina and Turkey.
- Skoda D.1
- Licence manufacture of the Dewoitine D.21 in Czechoslovakia by Skoda;(26 built - included in D.9 total). Škoda L was a licence-built Hispanio Suiza HS-50. Armament only 2 × 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Vickers machine-guns
Operators
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Specifications (D.21 C.1)
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Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928,[3] The encyclopedia of world aircraft[2]
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 7.925 m (26 ft 0 in)
- Wingspan: 12.8 m (42 ft 0 in)
- Height: 3.32 m (10 ft 11 in)
- Wing area: 25 m2 (270 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 1,090 kg (2,403 lb)
- Gross weight: 1,590 kg (3,505 lb)
- Fuel capacity: 250 kg (550 lb) (ca. 175 L (46 US gal; 38 imp gal))
- Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 12Gb W-12 water-cooled piston engine, 370 kW (500 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch propeller
Performance
- Maximum speed: 267 km/h (166 mph, 144 kn) at sea level
- 262 km/h (163 mph; 141 kn) at 2,000 m (6,600 ft)
- 258 km/h (160 mph; 139 kn) at 3,000 m (9,800 ft)
- 254 km/h (158 mph; 137 kn) at 4,000 m (13,000 ft)
- 250 km/h (160 mph; 130 kn) at 5,000 m (16,000 ft)
- Range: 400 km (250 mi, 220 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 8,991 m (29,498 ft)
- Rate of climb: 10 m/s (2,000 ft/min)
- Time to altitude: 4,000 m (13,000 ft) in 8 minutes 4 seconds
- 5,000 m (16,000 ft) in 11 minutes 17 seconds
- Wing loading: 63.6 kg/m2 (13.0 lb/sq ft)
- Power/mass: 0.2694 kW/kg (0.1639 hp/lb)
Armament
- Guns: 2 × fuselage-mounted synchronised 7.7 mm (0.303 in) Vickers machine-guns and 2 × wing-mounted 7.5 mm (0.295 in) Darne machine-guns in the centre section (optional)
See also
[edit]Related development
Related lists
References
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Citations
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Bellomo, Sergio (May 2000). "Les Dewoitine D.21 et D.25 de l'Armée argentine" [The Dewoitine D.21s and D.25s of the Argentine Army]. Avions: Toute l'Aéronautique et son histoire (in French) (86): 50–52. ISSN 1243-8650.
- Cortet, Pierre (July 1997). "Les premièrs chasseurs de Emile Dewoitine (5ème partie)". Avions: Toute l'Aéronautique et son histoire (in French) (52): 30–37. ISSN 1243-8650.
- Magnusson, Michael (Winter 2007). "FMA : from 1945: The Story of Fabrica Militar de Aviones, Argentina: Part 1". Air-Britain Archive. pp. 155–158. ISSN 0262-4923.
- Nunez Padin, Jorge Felix (May 1995). "Les Dewoitine D.21 de la Marine argentine" [The Dewoitine D.21 in the Argentine Navy]. Avions: Toute l'Aéronautique et son histoire (in French) (26): 36–42. ISSN 1243-8650.
- Taylor, John W. R.; Alexander, Jean (1969). Combat aircraft of the world. London: Ebury P.; Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-71810-564-8.
Further reading
[edit]- Sebastian Sequeira, Carlos Cal y Cecilia Calatayud. Aviación Naval Argentina. SS&CC ediciones, Buenos Aires, 1984. ISBN 950-9064-02-5 (Spanish)
External links
[edit]- Dewoitine D.21, AMILARG - Aviacion Militar Argentina (Spanish) Accessed 2023-03-31
- CAZA BOMBARDEROS DE LA AVIACION NAVAL: DEWOITINE D-21 - HISTARMAR (Spanish) Accessed 2023-04-01