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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 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]
Robert Blackburn, OBE, FRAeS (26 March 1885 – 10 September 1955) was an English aviation pioneer and the founder of Blackburn Aircraft. [1] ... a factory at ...
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Construction of the first prototype was undertaken at General Aircraft's Feltham, Middlesex factory. Following the company's merger into Blackburn Aircraft, it was agreed that construction would continue at Feltham, but that, due to the unsuitability of the adjacent Hanworth Aerodrome, it would be disassembled and transported by road to Blackburn's facility in Brough, Yorkshire, where it was ...
However, GAL realised it did not have the room or capacity to produce the aircraft in quantity, and approached Blackburn Aircraft Ltd, that was looking for work to keep its factory at Brough Aerodrome busy. On 1 January 1949, this led to the two companies merging to form the Blackburn and General Aircraft Ltd. The first GAL.60 was transported ...
The airline's flight status search said Flight 11 was bound for Tokyo but canceled because of “aircraft inspection.” The Chicago Department of Aviation did not immediately respond to a request ...
The Blackburn B-20 was an experimental aircraft, first flying in 1940, that attempted to drastically increase the performance of flying boat designs. Blackburn Aircraft undertook an independent design study based on a patent filed by their chief designer, John Douglas Rennie [ 1 ] for a retractable pontoon float that formed the planing hull.