Ansaldo SVA

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name=SVA


caption=SVA.5 Primo
type=Reconnaissance aircraft
manufacturer=Gio. Ansaldo & C.
designer=Umberto Savoia and Rodolfo Verduzio
first flight=1917
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number built= 1,245
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The Ansaldo SVA (named for Savoia-Verduzio-Ansaldo) was a family of Italian reconnaissance biplane aircraft of World War I and the decade after. Originally conceived as a fighter, the SVA was found inadequate for that role. Nevertheless, its impressive speed, range and operational ceiling made it an excellent reconnaissance aircraft and even light bomber. Production of the aircraft continued well after the war, with the final examples delivered in 1928. Two minor variants were produced, one with reconnaissance cameras, the other without cameras but extra fuel tanks.

The SVA was a conventionally-laid out unequal-span biplane, featuring Warren Truss-style struts and therefore no bracing wires. The plywood-skinned fuselage had the typical Ansaldo triangular cross-section.

Variants

* SVA.1 - single prototype
* SVA.2 - 65 production aircraft
** ISVA - ("Idroplane" - "seaplane") float-equipped version. 50 built for Italian navy
* SVA.3 - AER-built SVA.4
** SVA.3 Ridotto ("Reduced") - fast-climbing interceptor variant for anti-Zeppelin defence. Some fitted with additional oblique-firing machine gun
* SVA.4 - first major production version. Portside Vickers gun deleted to save weight for cameras.
* SVA.5 - definitive production version
* SVA.6 - prototype bomber version
* SVA.8 - single prototype; nature unclear
* SVA.9 - two-seat unarmed reconnaissance version with larger wings. Intended as pathfinder for SVA.5 formations, and as trainer
* SVA.10 - two-seat armed reconnaissance version with 250hp Isotta-Fraschini engine and fitted with single forward firing gun and a Lewis gun on a flexible mounting in the rear cockpit

pecifications (SVA.5)

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crew=one pilot
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length m=8.10
length ft=26
length in=7
span m=9.10
span ft=29
span in=10
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height m=2.65
height ft=8
height in=8
wing area sqm=24.2
wing area sqft=260
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empty weight kg=680
empty weight lb=1,500
gross weight kg=1,050
gross weight lb=2,320

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eng1 type=SPA 6A
eng1 kw= 150
eng1 hp= 200
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max speed kmh=230
max speed mph=140
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endurance h= 3
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ceiling m=6,000
ceiling ft=19,700
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climb rate ms=5
climb rate ftmin=980
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armament1=2 × syncrhonised .303 Vickers machine gun
armament2=up to 90 kg (200 lb) of bombs
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ee also

*Flight over Vienna

References

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* "World Aircraft Information Files." Brightstar Publishing: London. File 889 Sheet 62.
* [http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/sva5.html airwar.ru]
* Munson, Kenneth "Aircraft of World War I". Ian Allan 1967. ISBN 0-7110-0356-4

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