__NOTOC__ The Dewoitine D.560 was a prototype

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single-seat fighter developed by

Dewoitine Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920. The company's initial products were a range of metal parasol-wing fighters which were largely ignored by th ...

as an alternate to the

Dewoitine D.500 The Dewoitine D.500 was an all-metal, open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage monoplane fighter aircraft designed and produced by French aircraft manufacturer Dewoitine. Developed from a specification issued by the French Air Ministry during 1930, th ...

. The design failed to better the performance and only one aircraft was built.

Development

To provide an alternate design in the competition to supply the

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with a successor to the Nieuport 62. Rather than the low-wing monoplane design of the D.500 the D.560 had a shoulder-mounted gull wing. During test flying the D.560 was found to be slower than the D.500 and had stability problems. The aircraft was rebuilt with a parasol wing and redesignated the D.570. Performance was even worse than the gull wing design, and following a crash of the prototype development was abandoned.

Variants

D.560 Prototype gull wing fighter, one built. D.570 The D.560 rebuilt with a parasol wing.

Specifications (D.560)

References

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