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The Blackburn Beverley was a large transport aircraft, designed for carrying large and bulky payloads and landing on rough or imperfect runways, or dirt strips. In terms of its basic configuration, it was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with a fixed undercarriage .
General Aircraft GAL.56 – an experimental flying-wing glider, four built. General Aircraft GAL.58 Hamilcar X – a powered version of the Hamilcar I with 22 converted from the latter. General Aircraft GAL.60 Universal Freighter – a freight-carrying aircraft later to become the Blackburn Beverley. One prototype built.
The number of Hamilcars that the War Office required frequently fluctuated. In May 1942 the War Office asked GAL for 360 Hamilcars to be used in two major airborne operations, but this was found to be unrealistic; not only was the production rate for the glider far too slow to accommodate this large number, the same number of tugs needed to tow the gliders could not be found.
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 ]
In April 2024, the museum raised enough money to move the only surviving Blackburn Beverly to the museum from Fort Paull. [2] Seven months later, the museum received a Tornado GR1 which had been a gate guard at RAF Spadeadam .
Hewitt 1909 glider- Hewitt, V. V. D. Hick Merlin – Hick, W. Eddie, Newcastle Gliding Club; Holdsworth 1929 glider – Holdsworth, H. Holdsworth 1931 glider – Holdsworth, H. Holmes KH-1 – Kenneth Holmes; Hulton 1969 hang glider; IOW Club glider – Isle of Wight gliding club; Jefferson 1933 glider – Jefferson, G. Fearnville Grove ...
0-4-2T 'Gazelle' inside the Museum 8 August 1995. The Museum of Army Transport was a museum of British Army vehicles in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.. The collection included a diverse collection of armoured vehicles and support vehicles, many of which were part of the National Army Museum, as well as railway locomotives and rolling stock, and the only remaining Blackburn ...
In 1947 the British Gliding Association held a competition for a two-seat glider design. [1] The tandem seat Harbinger was designed jointly by Waclaw Czerwiński, who had already developed several gliders in Poland before World War II, [2] and Canadian Beverley Shenstone, who had worked in Germany on the Junkers Ju 52 then later, in the UK, on the Spitfire.