Port Victoria P.V.8 Eastchurch Kitten. Yorkshire Air Museum. Engine Run.

The Port Victoria P.V.8 Eastchurch Kitten was a prototype British fighter aircraft of the First World War designed and built by the Port Victoria Marine Experimental Aircraft Depot on the Isle of Grain. It was a small and light biplane with a conventional wheeled undercarriage intended to operate from platforms on small ships, but while it had good handling, an unreliable and underpowered engine meant that the aircraft did not enter production, with only one prototype being completed.

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Smooth running

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What weapon did they carry

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Looks like a Lewis gun to me.

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Lewis on the top wing. One Vickers fixed forward.