Type : 7 (First and second pilot, navigator/bomb aimer, front gunner/WT operator, two air gunners, and flight engineer)
Engine 4 × Bristol Hercules XI  with 3-bladed metal fully feathering constant-speed propeller, 4.11 m diameter
Dimensions Length 26,59 m , height  6,93 m,  span 30,20 m , wing area 136 m2  , aspect ratio 6,5 : 1
Weights Empty 22498 kg, loaded  26943 kg, max. take off weight  31751 kg
Performance Max.. speed 454 km/h at 3800 m , cruising speed 320 km/h , range 3750 km, endurance  , service ceiling  5000 m , climb 4,1 m/sec.
Armament 8 x 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns: 2 in powered nose turret, 4 in tail turret, 2 in dorsal turret
Bombs: Up to 14,000 pounds (6,400 kg) of bombs[67]
Type Werk.Nr
 
History
Mk I N3705 MG-F , 7th Sqd
After a mine-laying sortie off Borkum it landed in a boggy field neat Löwenstein Castle at Gorinchem in Holland on August 16, 1942. It had nosed over but was virtually undamaged. The Stirling was moved to the nearby field at Gilze-Rijen, where the nose was patched up with canvas and webbing for a ferry flight to Rechlin. There a more permanent nose fairing was applied.