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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 was founded by Robert Blackburn and Jessy Blackburn, who built his first aircraft in Leeds in 1908 with the company's Olympia Works at Roundhay opening in 1914. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company was created in 1914 [ 3 ] and established in a new factory at Brough , East Riding of Yorkshire in 1916. [ 4 ]
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]
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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 ...
Captain Norman William George Blackburn (25 May 1896 – 27 January 1966), was a British pilot and flying instructor during the First World War, and afterwards a director of Blackburn Aircraft. Early life and background
Operated Blackburn Segrave, Blackburn Kangaroo [278] North Sea Air Transport: 1946: 1949: Operated Avro Anson, de Havilland Dragon Rapide, Lockheed 12A, Lockheed 14 [279] North West Airlines (UK) 1949: 1957: Formed by the merger of Mannin Airways and Ulster Aviation. Operated Miles Aerovan, de Havilland Dragon Rapide, Douglas C-47A [280] North ...