The plane was manufactured by the Royal Aircraft Factory.
The .S.E. stands for Scout Experimental (single seat fighters). The target was to build a fighter around Hispano-Suiza 200 hp, engine which would be fast and have high climb speed. The first trial flight was performed in January 1917. The plane first saw combat in June 1917 with 56 squadron. It was used to engage enemy fighters, observation balloons, bomber escorts and very rarely to engage ground targets.
The S.E.5 had one synchronised .303-in Vickers machine gun mounted on the forward left dorsal surface of the fuselage with the breech inside the cockpit. It also had a wing-mounted Lewis gun on a Foster mounting, which enabled the pilot to fire at an enemy aircraft from below as well as providing two guns firing forward. This was much appreciated by the pilots of the first S.E.5 squadrons as the new hydraulic-link "C.C." synchronising gear for the Vickers was unreliable at first. It was even given a nickname – “Ace-maker” as most of the British top Aces flew this type of plane. The aircraft participated in battles in Europe on the Western front, in Macedonia, Mesopotamia and Palestine a total of 5269 planes were built be the end of the war.
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Colour render of S.E.5A Biplane
Colour render of S.E.5A Biplane
Colour render of S.E.5A Biplane
Colour render of S.E.5A Biplane
Colour render of S.E.5A Biplane
Colour render of S.E.5A Biplane
