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| A private venture intended to compete with the Sopwith
Snipe, the Osprey was of wooden construction
with fabric skinning and was powered by a 230hp Bentley
B.R.2 nine-cylinder rotary engine. Armament comprised
two fixed and synchronised 7.7mm
Vickers machine guns and one semi-free Lewis gun of
similar calibre on the rear spanwise member of the
middle-wing centre section. The Osprey was flown for
the first time in February 1918, but performance proved
to be inferior to that of the Snipe, and construction of
second and third prototypes was abandoned.
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| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 856 kg | 1887 lb |
| Empty weight | 502 kg | 1107 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 7.01 m | 23 ft 0 in |
| Length | 5.36 m | 18 ft 7 in |
| Height | 3.25 m | 11 ft 8 in |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 190 km/h | 118 mph |
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