page_title: Airco DH.5
section_title: Specifications
hierarchical_section_title: Airco DH.5 / Specifications
caption_attribution_description: English: Classic Fighters 2015 - Airco DH.5 ZK-JOQ
context_page_description: The Airco DH.5 was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft. It was designed and manufactured at British aviation company Airco. Development was led by the aircraft designer Geoffrey de Havilland as a replacement for the obsolete Airco DH.2.
  The DH.5 was one of the first British fighter designs to include the improved Constantinesco gun synchronizer, which allowed a forward-firing machine gun to fire through the propeller faster and more reliably than the older mechanical gears. It was also one of the earliest biplanes to feature a marked "back-stagger" of its wings. Despite these advances, by the time the DH.5 was fielded, it was already notedly inferior to other fighters that had entered into production and thus proved to be both unpopular and unsatisfactory amongst the pilots of the Royal Flying Corps. As such, the type was quickly withdrawn from service as soon as supplies of the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 permitted.
context_section_description: Data from British Aeroplanes 1914–18
  General characteristics
  Crew: 1
  Length: 22 ft 0 in (6.71 m)
  Wingspan: 25 ft 8 in (7.82 m)
  Height: 9 ft 1 ¹⁄₂ in (2.781 m)
  Wing area: 212.1 sq ft (19.70 m²)
  Empty weight: 1,010 lb (458 kg)
  Gross weight: 1,492 lb (677 kg)
  Fuel capacity: 26 imp gal (31 US gal; 120 L)
  Powerplant: 1 × Le Rhône 9J nine-cylinder rotary engine, 110 hp (82 kW)
  Propellers: 2-bladed, 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) diameter
  Performance
  Maximum speed: 102 mph (164 km/h, 89 kn) at 10,000 ft (3,050 m)
  Endurance: 2 hr 45 min
  Service ceiling: 16,000 ft (4,900 m)
  Time to altitude: 
  12 min 25 s to 10,000 ft (3,050 m)
  27 min 30 s to 15,000 ft (4,570 m)
  Armament
  Guns: 1 × 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun
  Bombs: racks for four 25 lb (10 kg) bombs under fuselage
caption: Replica DH.5 ZK-JOQ at the Classic Fighters 2015 airshow in Blenheim, New Zealand
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