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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 ]
The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 is a British single-engine tractor two-seat biplane, designed and developed at the Royal Aircraft Factory.Most of the roughly 3,500 built were constructed under contract by private companies, including established aircraft manufacturers and firms new to aircraft construction.
By the 1880s Parnall & Sons was the largest shop fitting company in England with showrooms in Narrow Wine Street and Fairfax Street, a scale works at Fishponds and branches in London and Swansea. The scales and weighing machines produced at the Fishponds foundry on Parnall Road included the hardy Patent Agate Hand Scales and the Patent National ...
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 ...
1963 replica of the Bristol Boxkite, now hanging in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. While each aircraft was an accurate reproduction, some "impersonated" other types. For instance, The Phoenix Flyer was a Bristol Boxkite built by F.G. Miles Engineering Co. at Ford, Sussex, representing a Curtiss biplane of 1910 vintage.
Bristol Boxkite [18] Trainer: 30 July 1910: 1911 (for the Air Battalion) Bristol-Coanda Monoplane [19] Trainer: 1912? Bristol F.2A and F.2B Fighter [20] [21] Fighter / Reconnaissance: 9 September 1916: Late 1916 Bristol Scout [22] Reconnaissance / Fighter: 23 February 1914: 1914 Bristol M.1 [23] Fighter: 14 July 1916: 1917 Caudron G.III [24 ...
Data from The World's Worst Aircraft: From Pioneering Failures to Multimillion Dollar Disasters, Bristol Aircraft since 1910 General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 77 ft 8 in (23.67 m) Wingspan: 35 ft 1 in (10.69 m) Height: 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) Wing area: 396 sq ft (36.8 m 2) Airfoil: Biconvex 4% Powerplant: 2 × de Havilland DGJ.10R Gyron Junior afterburning turbojet engines, 10,000 lbf (44 ...