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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 ]
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A further order was placed for 29 Blackburns with the more powerful Napier Lion V engine, designated the Blackburn II. The upper wing was raised 22½ in (0.57 m) to improve handling. [ 3 ] A few Blackburns were used as dual-control trainers and all the Blackburn Is were converted to II standard before the type became obsolete in 1931 , when ...
Blackburn developed a design, the Blackburn T.7B, which was an enlarged development of their Ripon and was under development for Britain's Fleet Air Arm. [1] The T.7B was a three-seat biplane of steel tube construction and with high aspect ratio wings fitted with Handley Page slats , powered by a 466 kW (625 hp) Hispano-Suiza 12Lbr engine.
Data from Blackburn Aircraft since 1909 [3] General characteristics. Crew: 1; Length: 23 ft 0 in (7.01 m) Wingspan: 24 ft 0 in (7.32 m) Height: 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) Wing area: 170 sq ft (16 m 2) Gross weight: 800 lb (363 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Green C.4 4-cylinder water-cooled in-line piston engine, 35 hp (26 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch ...
The Blackburn Mercury was an early British aircraft designed as a pilot trainer for the Blackburn Flying School, Filey, in 1911. It was an enlarged, two-seat version of the Second Monoplane that flew earlier that year. It was a mid-wing monoplane of conventional configuration that accommodated pilot and student in tandem, open cockpits.
The Blackburn B-7 was a single-engine two/three-seat biplane built to a British Air Ministry specification for a general-purpose, multitasking aircraft. It first flew in 1934, but no contracts were issued and only one aircraft was completed.