Specifications (Sunderland III)
Data from Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II
General characteristics
- Crew: 9—11 (two pilots, radio operator, navigator, engineer, bomb-aimer, three to five gunners)
- Length: 85 ft 4 in (26.0 m)
- Wingspan: 112 ft 9½ in (34.39 m)
- Height: 32 ft 10½ in (10 m)
- Wing area: 1,487 ft² (138 m²)
- Empty weight: 34,500 lb (15,663 kg)
- Loaded weight: 58,000 lb (26,332 kg)
- Powerplant: 4 × Bristol Pegasus XVIII nine-cylinder radial engine, 1,065 hp (794 kW) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 210 mph (336 km/h) at 6,500 ft (2,000 m)
- Cruise speed: 178 mph (285 km/h) at 5,000 ft (1,500 m)
- Stall speed: 78 mph (125 km/h)
- Range: 1,780 mi (2,848 km)
- Service ceiling: 16,000 ft (4,880 m)
- Rate of climb: 720 ft/min (3.67 m/s)
- Wing loading: 39 lb/ft² (191 kg/m²)
- Power/mass: .018 hp/lb (.030 kW/kg)
Armament
- Guns:
- 16× 0.303 inch (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns
- 2× Browning 0.5 inch (12.7 mm) machine gun
- Bombs: various defensive and offensive munitions, including bombs, mines and depth charges carried internally and, some, winched out beneath the wings. Manually launched flares, sea markers and smoke-floats.
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