Morane-Saulnier H

what is it?

The Morane-Saulnier H was an early aircraft first flown in France in the months immediately preceding the First World War; it was a single-seat derivative of the successful Morane-Saulnier G with a slightly reduced wingspan Like the Type G, it was a successful sporting and racing aircraft: examples serving with the French army were used in the opening phases of the war. German versions, the Fokker Eindecker fighters, were armed with forward-firing machine guns and became the first single-seat fighter aircraft so armed.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · mid wing · 9.1 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 120 km/htop speed
• range 177 kmwithout refuelling
• size 444 kgmax take-off weight

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 113 years ago, in 1913.
• 🚗Wingspan of 9.1 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1913

number built

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role

sport aircraft

makers

Morane-Saulnier

engines

1× Le Rhône 9C

length

5.8 m

wingspan

9.1 m

height

2.3 m

max take-off weight

444 kg

top speed

120 km/h

range

177 km

ceiling

1,000 m

wings

mid wing

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.