Vickers F.B.19

what is it?

The Vickers F.B.19 was a British single-seat fighting scout of the First World War, developed from the Barnwell Bullet prototype, and sometimes known as the Vickers Bullet. It served with the Royal Flying Corps and the Imperial Russian Air Service, which subsequently led to the Red Air Force adopting it during the Russian Civil War.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · biplane · 7.3 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 164 km/htop speed
• size 674 kgmax take-off weight
• built 62made in total

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 110 years ago, in 1916.

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

spec sheet

first flight

1916-08

introduced

1916

number built

62

role

single-seat scout

makers

Vickers

engines

1× Gnome Monosoupape / Monosoupape / Le Rhône 9J / Clerget 9Z

crew

1

length

5.5 m

wingspan

7.3 m

height

2.5 m

max take-off weight

674 kg

top speed

164 km/h

range

—

ceiling

5,334 m

wings

biplane

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