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In 1916, the Blackburn Aircraft Company designed and built two prototypes of an anti-submarine floatplane designated the Blackburn G.P. or Blackburn General Purpose. It was not ordered but Blackburn developed a landplane version as the Blackburn R.T.1 Kangaroo (Reconnaissance Torpedo Type 1), [1] reflecting the Air Board's growing interest in using landplanes rather than floatplanes for convoy ...
Blackburn Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1914 to 1963 that concentrated mainly on naval and maritime ... Blackburn R.T.1 Kangaroo (1918) ...
A team with a Blackburn Kangaroo (G-EAOW) had selected as navigator the Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith. Smith withdrew from the contest, and Captain Hubert Wilkins MC and bar took his place. On 21 November 1919, the Kangaroo took off from Hounslow Heath, piloted by Lieutenant V. Rendle with Captain Wilkins, Lieutenant D.R. Williams ...
The Blackburn G.P seaplane, (the second aircraft (serial number 1416) was sometimes referred to as the Blackburn S.P. for Special Purpose), was a British twin-engine reconnaissance torpedo floatplane of the First World War, built by the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co Ltd. [1]
Pages in category "Blackburn aircraft" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. ... Blackburn Kangaroo; L. Blackburn Lincock; List of surviving ...
Aircraft Version Aug 1918 Mar 1919 Short 184: Aug 1918 Oct 1918 Sopwith Baby: Aug 1918 Oct 1918 Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2: F.E.2b Aug 1918 Nov 1918 Short 320: Aug 1918 Nov 1918 Blackburn Kangaroo: Oct 1942 Apr 1943 Short Sunderland: Mks.II, III Oct 1944 Nov 1945 Consolidated Liberator: Mks.III, VI Nov 1944 Feb 1945 Handley Page Halifax: Mk ...
No. 252 Squadron was formed at Tynemouth on 1 May 1918 as a day bomber unit when four RNAS flights were amalgamated and was equipped with the Blackburn Kangaroo and DH.6s. One of these flights, No. 510 (Special Duty) Flight was posted to Redcar with its DH.6s for protection of shipping in the Teesport area until 21 January 1919.
The Blackburn B-54 and B-88 were prototype carrier-borne anti-submarine warfare aircraft of the immediate post-Second World War era developed for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA). They shared a conventional monoplane design with a mid-mounted inverted- gull wing and tricycle undercarriage .