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The Blackburn Firebrand was a British single-engine strike fighter for the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy designed during World War II by Blackburn Aircraft.Originally intended to serve as a pure fighter, its unimpressive performance and the priority allocation by the Ministry of Aircraft Production of Napier Sabre engines to the Hawker Typhoon caused it to be redesigned with an alternative ...
The Firebrand required significant effort by Blackburn to produce a useful aircraft and the first discussions on a redesign of the aircraft with a laminar-flow wing took place in September 1943. The new wing was estimated to reduce the weight of the wing by 700 lb (320 kg) and increase the aircraft speed by 13 mph (11 kn; 21 km/h).
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 ]
The Blackburn Firebrand T.F. 5 strike fighter entered service with the Fleet Air Am in May 1947, [10] when 813 Naval Air Squadron reformed at RNAS Ford and experienced greater success. However, it initially encountered several issues, limiting the squadron's ability to conduct extended operations aboard HMS Illustrious and HMS Implacable over ...
Blackburn B-2 (RAF) to 1942, most used by civilian training schools; Blackburn Botha (RAF) RAF target tug, retired 1944; Blackburn Shark (FAA) after withdrawn from use as torpedo bomber; Boulton Paul Defiant (RAF) gunnery trainer from 1942 to 1945; Boulton Paul Overstrand (RAF) obsolete bomber used as gunnery trainer to 1941
708 Naval Air Squadron (708 NAS)was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN) which disbanded during February 1946. It formed during October 1944 at HMS Daedalus, RNAS Lee-on-Solent, as the Firebrand Tactical Trials Unit, before moving to nearby RAF Gosport the following January.
Blackburn Firebrand T.F. IV strike fighter (March - June 1946) Airspeed Oxford training aircraft (April 1946 - August 1947) Blackburn Firebrand T.F. 5 strike fighter (May 1946 - March 1952) de Havilland Sea Mosquito TR Mk.33 torpedo bomber (June 1946 - October 1950) de Havilland Dominie short-haul airliner (May 1947 - October 1948)
British 18-inch torpedo Mark XVII – Carried by the Blackburn Firebrand (retired). General Electric/Western Electric Mark 24 mine (retired). Brush Development Company Mark 43 torpedo (retired). General Electric Mark 44 torpedo – Carried by the Westland Sea King, Wasp, Wessex and Whirlwind helicopters (retired).