page_title: Carden-Baynes Bee
section_title: Specifications
hierarchical_section_title: Carden-Baynes Bee / Specifications
caption_attribution_description: English: Carden-Baynes Bee 3-view drawing from NACA-AC-207
context_page_description: The Carden-Baynes Bee was a 1930s British two-seat aircraft, with twin engines in pusher configuration buried in the wings. The wings rotated for storage. Financial problems limited the Bee to a single flight.
context_section_description: Data from Ord-Hume 2000, pp. 291, Ellison (1971), p.76
  General characteristics
  Crew: 2
  Length: 23 ft 0 in (7.01 m)
  Wingspan: 29 ft 10 in (9.09 m)
  Wing area: 141 sq ft (13.1 m²)
  Empty weight: 880 lb (399 kg)
  Gross weight: 1,350 lb (612 kg)
  Powerplant: 2 × Carden-Ford S.P.1 4-cylinder horizontal water-cooled supercharged, geared up by 1.1:1, 40 hp (30 kW)  each
  Performance
  Maximum speed: 110 mph (177 km/h; 96 kn) estimated
  Cruise speed: 100 mph (161 km/h; 87 kn) estimated
  Stall speed: 40 mph (64 km/h; 35 kn)
  Range: 300 mi (261 nmi; 483 km) estimated
  Endurance: 3 hours
  Rate of climb: 699 ft/min (3.55 m/s)
  Wing loading: 9.55 lb/sq ft (46.62 kg/m²)
caption: Carden-Baynes Bee 3-view drawing from NACA-AC-207
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