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Summary: Dewoitine D-500 510 aircraft Airplane blueprint for the Dewoitine, D-500, 510 ... Aviation history and aircraft blueprints/plans. The Dewoitine D.510 was the latest of the D-500 series of all-metal open cockpit fixed-undercarriage monoplane fighters used by the Armée de l'Air in the 1930's. The initial D.500, designed by Emile Dewoitine, was based on specifications issued in 1930 by the air ministry, and was to be a replacement for the Nieuport 62. The prototype first flew on June 18, 1932.
The D.500 was France's first modern monoplane fighter. The D-500 and D.510 featured an engine-mounted 20 mm cannon firing through the propeller spinner as well as two underwing rifle-calibre machine-guns. The aircraft was equippable with oxygen and shortwave radio.
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