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The Boulton Paul Balliol is an advanced trainer aircraft, being configured for use by military operators. In terms of its basic configuration, it was relatively traditional, featuring a conventional landing gear, of which the two main gear were retractable but the tailwheel was not. [13]
Boulton Paul also built the Fairey Barracuda and did conversions of the Vickers Wellington. The only post-war design was the Balliol advanced trainer, of which 229 were built, including 30 as the Sea Balliol deck-landing trainer. In the jet age, Boulton Paul worked on the English Electric Canberra and de Havilland Vampire.
The P.112 was developed from the successful Boulton Paul Balliol, an advanced trainer powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin piston engine, sharing the same fuselage as the Balliol but with new high aspect ratio wings and a non-retractable spatted undercarriage of 15 ft 2 in (4.62 m) track.
John Dudley North (1893–11 January 1968), CBE, HonFRAeS, MIMechE, was Chairman and Managing Director of Boulton Paul Aircraft. [1]Born at 18 Kinver Road North, Peak Hill, Sydenham, London [1] in 1893 and educated at Bedford School, North became Chief Engineer for Claude Graham-White of the Grahame-White Aviation Co. Ltd., before the onset of World War I.
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This began during the First World War, when aircraft manufacturers were given an initial pairing of letters to use in the naming of their aircraft: e.g. Boulton Paul Ltd were given 'Bo'. From this, and the requirement to use the names of birds or insects for fighter aircraft, their first in-house fighter design was the Boulton Paul Bobolink.
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In February 1957, Boulton Paul Sea Balliol T.Mk 21, a Fleet Air Arm advanced trainer aircraft and de Havilland Sea Devon C Mk 20, a transport and communications version, for the Royal Navy, of the de Havilland Dove short-haul airliner, were also added, however, the squadron only lasted around one more month, with 765 Naval Air Squadron ...