The Robey-Peters Gun-Carrier was a British three-seater armed

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designed and built by Robey & Company Limited at Bracebridge Heath, Lincoln for the

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(RNAS). The gun-carrier was a single-engined three-

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biplane powered by a Rolls-Royce engine. The Gun-Carrier had a gondola on each of the upper wings to carry a

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(a form of

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) and a gunner, while the pilot sat alone in a cockpit in the rear fuselage, just forward of the aircraft's tail. He was provided with windows in the sides of the cockpit to improve the extremely poor view caused by the cockpit's location. Two were ordered for the RNAS in May 1916 but the first aircraft ( serial number ''9498'') crashed on its maiden flight from Bracebridge Heath in May 1917. The second aircraft was not completed and no others were built.

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, two ordered but only one built.

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Historians Ltd, location=Tonbridge, Kent, UK, isbn=0-85130-191-6 1910s British fighter aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1917

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