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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.
Notable aircraft produced by the company include the 'Boxkite', the Bristol Fighter, the Bulldog, the Blenheim, the Beaufighter, and the Britannia, and much of the preliminary work which led to Concorde was carried out by the company. In 1956 its major operations were split into Bristol Aircraft and Bristol Aero Engines.
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
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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]
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