Macchi M.14

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The '''Macchi M.14''' was an Italian fighter of 1918 designed and manufactured by Macchi. The M.14 was the first non-seaplane fighter Macchi produced, its previous fighter production having focused on flying boat fighters.<ref name=CBoF/>

==Design and development==

Alessandro Tonini designed the M.14, which was a single-seat wooden sesquiplane with Warren truss interplane bracing and armed with two fixed, forward-firing 7.7-millimeter (0.303-inch) Vickers machine guns synchronized to fire through the propeller. It had fixed, tailskid landing gear, and its 82-kilowatt (110-horsepower) Le Rhône 9J nine-cylinder rotary engine drove a two-bladed tractor propeller.<ref name=CBoF/>

==Operational history== Company testing of the M.14 prototype began in the spring of 1918. It was destroyed in June 1918, but Macchi then constructed 10 production aircraft, which underwent official evaluation at Guidonia Montecelio in 1919. Although no additional M.14s were ordered, the 10 aircraft saw service as advanced trainers. At least one of them is known to have become a civilian aircraft with the civil registration I-BADG.<ref name=CBoF/>

==Operators== ;{{flag|Kingdom of Italy}} * Corpo Aeronautico Militare

==Specifications== {{Aircraft specs |ref=<ref name=CBoF>{{cite book |last=Green |first=William |title=The Complete Book of Fighters |year=1994 |publisher=Salamander |location=London |isbn=1-85833-777-1 |last2=Swanborough |first2=Gordon |page=357 }}</ref> |prime units?=met  |crew=1 |length m=5.65 |span m=8.2 |upper span m= |mid span m= |lower span m= |width m= |height m=2.62 |wing area sqm=16.6 |aspect ratio= |airfoil= |empty weight kg=440 |gross weight kg=640 |max takeoff weight kg= |fuel capacity= |more general=  |eng1 number=1 |eng1 name=Le Rhône 9J |eng1 type=9-cylinder air-cooled rotary piston engine |eng1 hp=110

|prop blade number= |prop name= |prop dia m= |prop dia ft= |prop dia in= |prop dia note=  |max speed kmh=182 | max speed note = at sea level |cruise speed kmh= |stall speed kmh= |never exceed speed kmh= |minimum control speed kmh= |range km= |combat range km= |ferry range km= |endurance=2 hours |ceiling m= |g limits= |roll rate= |climb rate ms= |time to altitude={{cvt|1000|m}} in 3 minutes 30 seconds |wing loading kg/m2= |fuel consumption kg/km= |power/mass= |thrust/weight=

|more performance=  |guns= 2 × fixed forward-firing synchronized {{cvt|7.7|mm|3}} machine guns }}

==See also== {{aircontent  |see also= *Alenia Aermacchi |related= |similar aircraft= |sequence= |lists=* List of Interwar military aircraft }}

==References== {{commons category|Macchi M.14}} {{reflist}}

Category:1910s Italian fighter aircraft M.14 Category:Sesquiplanes Category:Aircraft first flown in 1918 Category:Rotary-engined aircraft Category:Single-engined tractor aircraft Category:Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear