page_title: Bristol Scout
section_title: Specifications (Bristol Scout D)
hierarchical_section_title: Bristol Scout / Specifications (Bristol Scout D)
caption_attribution_description: English: Bristol Scout C British First World War fighter biplane drawing in RNAS markings
context_page_description: The Bristol Scout was a single-seat rotary-engined biplane originally designed as a racing aircraft. Like similar fast, light aircraft of the period it was used by the RNAS and the RFC as a "scout", or fast reconnaissance type. It was one of the first single-seaters to be used as a fighter aircraft, although it was not possible to fit it with an effective forward-firing armament until the first British-designed gun synchronizers became available later in 1916, by which time the Scout was obsolescent. Single-seat fighters continued to be called "scouts" in British usage into the early 1920s.
context_section_description: Data from Bristol Aircraft since 1910
  General characteristics
  Crew: 1
  Length: 20 ft 8 in (6.30 m)
  Wingspan: 24 ft 7 in (7.49 m)
  Height: 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
  Wing area: 198 sq ft (18.4 m²)
  Empty weight: 789 lb (358 kg)
  Gross weight: 1,195 lb (542 kg)
  Powerplant: 1 × Le Rhône 9C 9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine, 80 hp (60 kW)
  Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller
  Performance
  Maximum speed: 94 mph (151 km/h, 82 kn)
  Range: 187 mi (301 km, 162 nmi)
  Endurance: 2 hours 30 minutes
  Service ceiling: 16,000 ft (4,900 m)
  Time to altitude: 10,000 ft (3,048 m) in 18 minutes 30 seconds
  Wing loading: 6.03 lb/sq ft (29.4 kg/m²)
  Power/mass: 0.067 hp/lb (0.110 kW/kg)
  Armament
  Guns: 1 × Lewis or Vickers machine gun
caption: RNAS Bristol Scout C drawing, with RNAS ring style insignia, and "behind-the-shoulders" rearwards engine oil tank location of the earliest Scout Cs
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