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Fairey Campania
The Fairey Campania was a British ship-borne, patrol and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War and Russian Civil War. It was a single-engine, two-seat biplane with twin main floats and backward-folding wings. The Campania was the first aeroplane ever designed specifically for carrier operations.〔
==Development==
The Royal Navy was an early leader in carrier aviation and, in the autumn of 1914, purchased the liner for conversion into a seaplane carrier. Operating seaplanes required the carrier to stop to hoist the aircraft out- and in-board by crane, leaving the ship exceedingly vulnerable to U-Boat attacks; this technique fell into disfavour with the Admiralty, who began to seek alternatives.〔Taylor 1988, p.56〕 By the middle of 1916, ''Campania'' had been fitted with a 200 ft (61 m) flight deck forward and experiments were being carried out in launching aircraft from this.〔 Against this background, the Admiralty issued a specification for a purpose-built, two-seat patrol and reconnaissance aircraft.
The aircraft that Fairey Aviation designed in response first flew on 16 February 1917. It was a single-engined tractor biplane of fabric-covered wooden construction. The two-bay wings folded rearwards for storage. The crew of two sat in separate cockpits, with the observer's cockpit provided with a single Lewis gun on a Scarff ring〔Bruce 1963, pp. 142–143.〕 This was the first of two prototypes, designated F.16 and powered by a 250 hp (190 kW) Rolls-Royce Eagle IV. The second, powered by an Eagle V of 275 hp (205 kW), was designated F.17. Both prototypes would later see active service operating from Scapa Flow.〔
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