Specifications (Bolingbroke Mk IV)
Data from War Planes of the Second World War: Volume Seven Bombers and Reconnaissance Aircraft
General characteristics
- Crew: 3
- Length: 42 ft 9 in (13.03 m)
- Wingspan: 56 ft 4 in (17.17 m)
- Height: 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m)
- Wing area: 469 ft² (43.6 m²)
- Empty weight: 9,835 lb (4,470 kg)
- Loaded weight: 13,750 lb (6,250 kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 14,500 lb (6,591 kg)
- Powerplant: 2 × Bristol Mercury XV nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, 920 hp (685 kW) at 9,250 ft (2,820 m) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 250 knots (288 mph, 464 km/h) at 15,000 ft (4,570 m)
- Cruise speed: 174 knots (200 mph, 322 km/h)
- Range: 1,617 nm (1,860 mi, 2,995 km) at 170 mph (274 km/h)
- Service ceiling: 27,000 ft (8,230 m)
- Rate of climb: 1,480 ft/min (7.5 m/s)
- Wing loading: 29.3 lb/ft² (143 kg/m²)
- Power/mass: 0.14 hp/lb (0.24 kW/kg)
Armament
- Guns: 1× fixed forward firing .303 in Browning machine gun and one .303 in Browning machine gun in power operated dorsal turret, alternately in the IVT, two Browning machine guns in a Boulton Paul Type C turret
- Bombs: 2× 500 lb (230 kg) or 4 × 250 lb (114 kg) bombs
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