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Description:
The SET-7 is a Romanian bi-plane recon/trainer aircraft designed by Societatea Pentru Exploatări Tehnice in the mid 1930s. The base variant was very simple, with a slightly staggered wing setup, fixed landing gears and tailskid, and an open cockpit configuration for the pilot, and instructor/observer, and powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar engine, and often had wireless and photographic reconnaissance equipment. Including all variants, 123 units would be built. The armed variants of the SET-7 would actually be the first domestically designed combat aircraft to enter production. Originally, the SET-7 would be painted olive drab throughout most of the body, and light blue on the underside, while most of the engine compartment were not painted. During wartime the SET-7s would be painted in dark olive camouflage.
Later on SET would developed the SET-7K, which was an armed recon variant which had a single forward facing fixed Lewis gun which fires through the propeller for the pilot, and two Lewis guns mounted on a Grossu IAR ring mount for the observer, and replaced its engine with a Gnome-Rhône engine. A total of 20 units of this variant would be built, what were dilivered by 1936.
Following the development of the 7K, the SET-7KB would be developed, which is basically a SET-7K with Barbieri-type bomb racks made by IAR mounted under the wings. A total of 20 units were produced, which were delivered in 1937. though sources don’t clarify what type of bombs it could carry, due to the bomb mounts being IAR built, I would guess its main armaments would be 12, and 50 kg bombs respectively, like the ones carried by the IAR-37 series.
SET has a very limited amount of aircraft which was designed by them, as they were largely overshadowed by IAR within the aerospace industry in Romania, so having one of their few original designs added to the game would be pretty cool, and I’d reckon this would make a fairly decent 1.0 dive bomber.
Specifications:
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General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 7.15 m (23 ft 5 in)
- Upper wingspan: 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in)
- Lower wingspan: 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in)
- Height: 3.15 m (10 ft 4 in)
- Wing area: 26.6 m2 (286 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 930 kg (2,050 lb)
- Gross weight: 1,560 kg (3,439 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × IAR 7-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 300 kW (400 hp) at 1,500 m (4,900 ft)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 251 km/h (156 mph, 136 kn) at sea level
255 km/h (158 mph; 138 kn) at 1,500 m (4,900 ft)
253 km/h (157 mph; 137 kn) at 3,000 m (9,800 ft)
- Stall speed: 92 km/h (57 mph, 50 kn)
- Service ceiling: 6,800 m (22,300 ft) service ceiling; 7,500 m (24,600 ft) absolute ceiling
- Time to altitude: 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in 2 minutes 40 seconds
2,000 m (6,600 ft) in 5 minutes 40 seconds
3,000 m (9,800 ft) in 9 minutes 5 seconds
4,000 m (13,000 ft) in 13 minutes 41 seconds
5,000 m (16,000 ft) in 19 minutes 41 seconds
Armament
- Guns: 1x fixed forward-firing synchronized 7.70 mm (0.303 in) Lewis gun with twin 7.70 mm (0.303 in) Lewis guns on a Grossu IAR ring mount in the rear cockpit
- Bombs: 300 kg (660 lb) of bombs and/or Holt flares carried under-wing
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