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| Role | Three-seat Trainer |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Boulton Paul Aircraft |
| Designer | John Dudley North |
| Status | Cancelled before completion of first prototype |
| Number built | 0 |
The Boulton Paul P.112 was an elementary trainer designed by Boulton Paul Aircraft for the Royal Air Force.
Design and development
[edit]The P.112 was developed from the successful Boulton Paul Balliol, an advanced trainer powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engine, sharing the same fuselage as the Balliol but with new high aspect ratio wings and a non-retractable spatted undercarriage of 15 ft 2 in (4.62 m) track.[1][2][verification needed] The trainer was equipped with three seats, similar to the Balliol and looked so like the earlier aircraft that the image in the brochure was actually a retouched Balliol T.1.[3] However, the Royal Air Force preferred the smaller de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk to the P.112 and so no production ensued.[3]
Variants
[edit]- P.112
- Baseline design for the elementary trainer, powered by an Alvis Leonides LE.4M
- P.112A
- The same design equipped with a Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp engine. This and the Balliol T.2A, were the only Boulton Paul aircraft offered with American engines.[3]
Specifications (P.112)
[edit]Data from Boulton Paul Aircraft[4]
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Capacity: 1 pax or supernumery
- Length: 35 ft 1.5 in (10.706 m)
- Wingspan: 45 ft 9 in (13.94 m)
- Height: 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
- Powerplant: 1 × Alvis Leonides LE.4M 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 520 hp (390 kW)
- Propellers: 3-bladed constant-speed propeller
Performance
See also
[edit]Related development
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
References
[edit]- ^ Brew, Alec (1993). Boulton Paul aircraft since 1915. London: Putnam. pp. 339–340. ISBN 0-85177-860-7.
- ^ Stemp, P.D. (2011). Boulton Paul Aircraft. Lulu. p. 45. ISBN 9781446133163.
- ^ a b c Brew, Alec (2015). The Boulton Paul Balliol: The Last Merlin-Powered Aircraft. Stroud: Fonthill. ISBN 9781781553619.
- ^ Brew, Alec (2001). Boulton Paul Aircraft. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 9780752421162.