Morane-Saulnier TRK

Last updated
TRK
Role Bomber aircraft
Manufacturer Morane-Saulnier
Designer Raymond Saulnier
First flight1915
Number built1

The Morane-Saulnier TRK (aka Morane-Saulnier MoS-9) was a prototype French bomber built during World War I.

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Design

The Morane-Saulnier TRK was a large triplane with the engines mounted in the fuselage, facing outboard and canted upwards. The engines drove a propeller each, through driveshafts and bevel gearboxes, with the propeller gearboxes strut mounted beneath the middle mainplanes. Cooling for the engines was provided by a tall radiator stack above the centre of the fuselage, between the middle and upper mainplanes. The two tractor propellers ran just forward of the middle mainplanes. [1]

Two pilots sat in open cockpits side-by-side in the nose of the aircraft, which also had a wind-driven generator at the very tip. The third crew-member was housed in the rear fuselage and attended the engines in flight or operated defensive armament. The fixed undercarriage was of the conventional contemporary tail-skid type, with a nose-over protection wheel, strut-mounted under the nose. The left and right, strut-supported, mainwheel assemblies were of very wide track, with a wheel at each end of both axles. [1]

Specifications (TRK)

Data from Aviafrance : Morane-Saulnier TRK, [2] French aircraft of the First World War [1]

General characteristics

PerformanceArmament

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Davilla, Dr. James J.; Soltan, Arthur M. (January 2002). French aircraft of the First World War. Flying Machines Press. pp. 329–330. ISBN   1891268090.
  2. Parmentier, Bruno (11 November 2008). "Morane-Saulnier TRK" (in French). Aviafrance.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.

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