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Boulton & Paul Ltd was a British general manufacturer from Norwich, England that became involved in aircraft manufacture. Jeld Wen Inc. bought Boulton & Paul (along with another joinery company John Carr ) from the Rugby Group plc in 1999 to form its British subsidiary.
Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer that was incorporated in 1934, although its origins in aircraft manufacturing began earlier in 1914 and lasted until 1961. The company mainly built and modified aircraft under contract to other manufacturers, but had a few notable designs of its own, such as the Defiant fighter and ...
In 1961, it acquired British aviation company Boulton Paul Aircraft, a former large scale manufacturer of aircraft, involved in the production of research aircraft as well as aviation subsystems such as powered control units, as well as other activities. [6] For a time, this part the business was known as Dowty Boulton Paul Ltd. [7]
Boulton & Paul designed and constructed the Bobolink and entered it in that competition. The prototype first flew in early 1918, undergoing official trials in March of that year. [1] The Bobolink had two-bay biplane wings and was powered by the same Bentley BR2 rotary engine as used by the competing Sopwith Snipe. An unusual feature of the ...
Boulton & Paul designed and constructed the prototype P.64 Mailplane to address these requirements. [1] The P.64 was a twin-engine two-bay equi-span biplane . It was powered by two Bristol Pegasus IM2 supercharged radial engines rated at 555 horsepower (414 kW) driving two-bladed fixed pitch propellers and mounted under the upper wings.
The Boulton & Paul P.15 Bolton was a one-off experimental twin-engined reconnaissance biplane ordered by the Air Ministry to sustain Boulton & Paul's development of steel-framed aircraft early in the 1920s.
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Data from Boulton Paul Aircraft since 1915, The British Bomber since 1912 General characteristics Crew: 3 Length: 39 ft 9 in (12.12 m) Wingspan: 62 ft 6 in (19.05 m) Height: 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) Wing area: 925 sq ft (85.9 m 2) Gross weight: 8,914 lb (4,043 kg) Powerplant: 2 × Napier Lion water-cooled W12 engine, 450 hp (340 kW) each Performance Maximum speed: 112 mph (180 km/h, 97 kn) at sea ...