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| Designed by Jean Biche to meet a Navy requirement for
a shipboard two-seat fighter for operation from the carrier
Beam, the P.L.5 C2b was a single-bay sesquiplane.
Of wooden construction, the fuselage was watertight,
the undercarriage being jettisonable and flush-fitting
stabilising floats being provided to allow the aircraft to
alight on water in an emergency. Four prototypes were
built in 1924, the first, second and fourth having a
450hp Hispano-Suiza 12Ha and the third having a
480hp Renault 12Kd engine. After successful trials at
Saint-Raphael, a series of 20 aircraft was ordered, these
being delivered between July and December 1926. The
series version of the P.L.5 carried an armament of two
forward-firing 7.7mm Vickers machine guns and twin
Lewis guns of similar calibre on a ring mounting in the
rear cockpit. Power was provided by a 450hp Lorraine-
Dietrich water-cooled engine.
 | A three-view drawing (1280 x 838) |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 1800 kg | 3968 lb |
| Empty weight | 1150 kg | 2535 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 12.40 m | 41 ft 8 in |
| Length | 8.80 m | 29 ft 10 in |
| Height | 3.10 m | 10 ft 2 in |
| Wing area | 37.00 m2 | 398.26 sq ft |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 225 km/h | 140 mph |
| Range | 800 km | 497 miles |
| Timo Ruoko, e-mail, 28.01.2007 20:59 Ceiking was 7000 m reply |
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