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Airco DH.2 Pusher biplane
First flight July 1915

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Airco DH.2 Pusher 

General information
Type	Fighter
Manufacturer	Airco
Designer	Geoffrey de Havilland
Primary user	Royal Flying Corps
Number built	453
History
First flight	July 1915
Retired	1918
Developed from	Airco DH.1

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Airco DH.2 Pusher biplane First flight July 1915 

The Airco DH.2 was a single-seat pusher biplane fighter aircraft which operated during the First World War. It was the second pusher design by aeronautical engineer Geoffrey de Havilland for Airco, based on his earlier DH.1 two-seater. The development of pusher configuration fighters, such as the DH.2 and the F.E.2b enabled forward firing armament before the development of synchronisation gears such as that fitted to the German Fokker Eindecker monoplane fighter. The prototype DH.2 made its first flight in July 1915, but it was lost during the following month, on its service trials on the Western Front.

Design

The Airco DH.2 was a compact two-bay pusher biplane fighter aircraft. It had a wooden airframe, which was wire-braced and covered by fabric across most areas, except for the nacelle nose and upper decking. Both the upper and lower wings had ailerons fitted. The upper ailerons were spring-loaded to automatically return to a neutral position when the controls were released. The upper part of the nose of the nacelle was cut away so that a machine gun could be mounted there. Unusually, the windshield was mounted on the machine gun rather than to the airframe

Operational service

After evaluation at Hendon on 22 June 1915, the first DH.2 arrived in France for operational trials with No. 5 RFC Squadron but was shot down and its pilot killed during early August 1915. This aircraft was recovered and repaired by the Germans. The first squadron equipped with the DH.2, and the first RFC squadron completely equipped with single-seat fighters, No. 24 Squadron RFC , arrived in France early February 1916. Wiki Link

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Airco DH.2 Pusher biplane First flight July 1915

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The Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited (Airco) Airco DH.2 Pusher biplane
First flight July 1915

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General characteristics

• • Crew: 1
  • Length: 25 ft 2+1⁄2 in (7.684 m)
  • Wingspan: 28 ft 3 in (8.61 m)
  • Height: 9 ft 6+1⁄2 in (2.908 m)
  • Wing area: 249 sq ft (23.1 m²)

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Materials

• Empty weight: 943 lb (428 kg)
• Gross weight: 1,441 lb (654 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Gnôme Monosoupape 9-cylinder rotary engine, 100 hp (75 kW)
• Propellers: 2-bladed Integral DG 70 fixed pitch wooden propeller

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Specifications

• Maximum speed: 93 mph (150 km/h, 81 kn) at sea level
• Endurance: 2 hours, 45 minutes
• Service ceiling: 14,000 ft (4,300 m)
• Time to altitude: 24 minutes, 45 seconds to 10,000 ft (3,000 m)
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Development

• Guns: 1 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun
• Rockets: Two examples were equipped with Le Prieur rockets for attacking observation balloons

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