Mahl, Victor ()

Rescued 1914-November-01

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Birth Date: 1889-April-02

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Sopwith Admiralty Type 861 Seaplane, No.851 teat flight on 1914-11-01: Mahl was the Sopwith test pilot on this flight. The new plane dived into the water off Netley shortly after take-off on its first flight. It was salvaged and re-built. Mahl, the test pilot, survived; but Reginald Jordan Alston, the Sopwith designer was killed.

Type 860 serial: 851


Sopwith Type 860 No.938 at Woolston, Southampton

The Sopwith Admiralty Type 860 was a 1910s British biplane seaplane torpedo bomber designed and built for the Admiralty by the Sopwith Aviation Company.

First flown in December 1914 the Type 860 was an unswept biplane. The upper wings had a strut braced extension and ailerons were fitted on all four wings. It had twin strut-mounted floats under the fuselage and a float mounted under the tail and each wingtip. Some models were powered by a nose-mounted 200 hp 14-cylinder engine; others used a 225 hp (168 kW) Sunbeam Mohawk engine. Both models utilised a two-bladed propeller. It had two tandem open cockpits and could carry one 810 lb (367 kg) torpedo under the fuselage. The Sopwith Admiralty Seaplane Type 860 was built in two versions. The standard version had wings of equal span; the second version had a lower wing of shorter span. In both versions, the wings were designed to fold. The type remained in service with RNAS until at least 1916. Wikipedia

Wikipedia Sopwith Type 860