Vickers Hydravion

The Vickers Hydravion, also numbered No. 14, was a British seaplane built by Vickers in the early 1910s. It was a large biplane that followed the design philosophy of Henri Farman, using a pusher engine and a tail carried on outrigger booms. It had a crew of one and could carry three passengers, with a span of about 72 feet 8 inches and a length of 43 feet, and was powered by a single 100 hp Gnome 9 Delta rotary engine driving a two-bladed pusher propeller. Only one seaplane version was built, and it crashed at Dartford during early tests. A later version, the Vickers No. 14B, would have had two 100 hp Gnome engines buried in the fuselage driving tractor propellers, together with a nose-mounted 37 mm semi-automatic cannon, but it remained a project.