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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 ]
The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-capable attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy (RN). Designed and initially produced by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough, it was later officially known as the Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer when Blackburn became a part of the Hawker Siddeley Group, but this name is rarely used.
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.
At the end of April 2009, an F-35 Lightning II static test airframe arrived at Brough Aerodrome. It was the first such aircraft to be delivered to the UK. [7] A £2.5 billion deal to provide Typhoons and Hawks to Oman extended Brough's work backlog to 2016, with hopes of further lucrative export deals to come. [8]
The Blackburn H.S.T.10 (sometimes known as the Blackburn B-9) was a 1930s British twin-engined commercial monoplane, designed and built by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough, East Yorkshire. [ 1 ] Design and development
Data from Blackburn Aircraft since 1909 General characteristics Crew: 3 Length: 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) Wingspan: 48 ft 6 in (14.78 m) Height: 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m) Wing area: 654 sq ft (60.8 m 2) Empty weight: 3,765 lb (1,708 kg) Gross weight: 6,370 lb (2,889 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Napier Lion IIB or V W-12 water-cooled piston engine, 450 hp (340 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller ...
The first production aircraft was found to have inadequate elevator control; this was rectified on a second aircraft sent for trials by a slight increase in the tailplane area and a larger horn-balanced elevator. [4] A total of 380 aircraft were produced at Brough, while another 200 Bothas were constructed at Dumbarton for a total of 580. [5]
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