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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_E.F.B.1
The Experimental Fighting Biplane No. 1 (E.F.B.1) was designed in response to a British
Admiralty requirement for an aircraft intended for an offensive role. As such, it is notable for being the first British aircraft to be specifically designed for a military role. A contract for an experimental prototype was given to Vickers on 19 November 1912.
The resulting aircraft was an unequal-span
staggered wing two bay
pusher biplane with the tailplane mounted on booms behind the wings and the crew of two housed in a
nacelle above the lower wing, with the engine behind them. The pusher layout was necessitated by the requirement for a forward firing gun, since gun synchronisation mechanisms had not been developed at the time. Extensive use of metal was made in its structure, the tail booms and wing spars being made of steel and the nacelle of steel tube with a covering of sheet
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Lateral control was effected by wing warping, and in order to prevent fatiguing of the structure caused by warping loads the rear wing spar was built in three sections, the outer sections being hinged to the centre section, and the wing ribs were loosely threaded onto the spars.
The armament consisted of a single belt-fed
0.303 Vickers-
Maxim machine gun mounted at the front of the nacelle on a flexible mounting.
It was exhibited at the Aero show at Olympia in February 1913, but crashed soon afterwards, possibly on its first flight. Nevertheless the design was considered promising enough for work to be started on another aircraft of similar design, the
Vickers E.F.B.2, and this line of development would eventually lead to the Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus.
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