Vultee BT-13 / -15 and SNV-1 / -2 Valiant USA. Photo. Characteristics.
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Vultee BT-13 / -15 and SNV-1 / -2 Valiant USA. Photo. Characteristics.

Vultee BT-13 / -15 and SNV-1 / -2 Valiant USA. Photo. Characteristics.

A type: single-engine training aircraft

Crew: Two pilots are arranged one behind the other

The most popular training aircraft, being built in the US during World War II. The family of aircraft "Velient» (Valiant) allows us to trace their ancestry back to a military training aircraft Sun-3 company "Vulti» (Vultee). Tested the US Air Force in the Armed Forces, the aircraft 1938-3 was initially equipped with retractable landing gear and engine "Wasp" Company "Pratt & Whitney" 600 liter capacity. from. (447 kW).

Evaluation tests have shown that he has excellent teaching and training for machine control, but should be non-retractable landing gear, and the propulsion system is not as powerful. The company "Vulti" promptly finalized the airplane and engine "Wasp Junior" Company "Pratt & Whitney." The end result was the aircraft Tu-13 «Velient", and in September 1939 years 300 USAF ordered aircraft.

The subsequent modification, equipped with another version of the engine "Wasp Youth", was produced in the amount of 6407 aircraft under the designation VT-13A. In fact, the pace with which the airframes of this aircraft were built led to a shortage of Pratt-Whitney engines, which made the company "Vulti" build BT-15 aircraft with R-975-11 "Windlind" star engine 9 from the company "Wright" . The US Navy also received more than 1500 "Valiant" aircraft, which, depending on the engine configuration, were designated SNV-1 / -2. By the time the production was completed, 1944 built more than 11 000 Valiant aircraft. Today, more than 100 potential "flyers" "Valiant" appeared in the US civil register.

Basic data

Dimensions:

  • Length: 8,79 m
  • Wingspan: 12,8 m
  • Height: 3,51 m

 

The weight:

  • BLANK: 1531 kg
  • Maximum take-off: 2039 kg

 

Aircraft performance characteristics:

  • Maximum speed: 290 km / h
  • Range: 1167 km

 

Power point: R-985-AN-1 «Wasp Junior" Company "Pratt & Whitney" (in versions HT-13 and SNV-1 / -2) and R-975-11 «Uirlvind» 9 company Wright (on the modification of Tu-15)

Power: Two liters of 450. from. (336 kW)

Date of first flight:

  • 24 March 1939 year

 

The surviving airworthy modifications:

  • BT-13, BT-15, SNV-1 and SNV-2

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