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The Boxkite (officially the Bristol Biplane) was the first aircraft produced by the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company (later known as the Bristol Aeroplane Company). A pusher biplane based on the successful Farman III , it was one of the first aircraft types to be built in quantity.
A Bristol Boxkite Replica at RAAF Museum Bristol Boxkite Centenary Flight at RAAF Museum Point Cook, 2014 Main article: Bristol Boxkite The company's initial manufacturing venture was to be a licensed and improved version of an aircraft manufactured in France by société Zodiac , a biplane designed by Gabriel Voisin . [ 1 ]
Bristol's submission was warmly received by the Air Staff, leading to the formulation of plans for an experimental programme to comprehensively evaluate the design's stability, control, and manoeuvrability. On 23 July 1947, the Air Ministry issued Specification E.8/47 ("Prototype Flying Models to Operational Requirement 250") to Bristol. [4] [5]
1910 Bristol Boxkite; 1910 Brooks Biplane [10] 1910 Brunet Tandem biplane [10] 1910 Brzeski Aquila monoplane [10] 1910 Bueno et Demaurex Pusher biplane [10] 1910 Burgess A pusher biplane [10] 1910 Burgess B pusher biplane [10] 1910 Burgess D pusher biplane [10] 1910 Bylinkin Iordan Sikorsky BIS No.1 biplane; 1910 Bylinkin Iordan Sikorsky BIS No ...
Top to bottom: 1870 helicopter; 1871 'Planophore; 1873 ornithopter Wright Flyer 1903 pusher Wright, Curtiss and Farman pushers Voisin-Farman 1908 Curtiss n°2 (1909 Bristol Boxkite (1910) Wright Model B (1910) Curtiss Model E (1911) Curtiss Model F (1912) Voisin III (1914) Airco DH.2 (1915) Vickers FB.5 (1915) Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2] (1915) Grigorovitch M-9 (1916) FBA Type H (1916 ...
The Bristol Biplane Type 'T', sometimes called the Challenger-Dickson Biplane, was a derivative of the Bristol Boxkite. It was built in 1911 by the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company and was designed as a cross-country racing aircraft for Maurice Tabuteau .
Aerospace Bristol is an aerospace museum at Filton, to the north of Bristol, England. The project is run by the Bristol Aero Collection Trust and houses a varied collection of exhibits, including Concorde Alpha Foxtrot , the final Concorde to be built and the last to fly.
The Bristol Type 92, sometimes known as the Laboratory biplane, was an aircraft built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company to address the differences between wind tunnel cowling models and full scale cowling for radial engines and was designed as a scaled-up version of a wind tunnel model aircraft. One was built and flew in the mid-1920s.