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In 1916, the Blackburn Aircraft Company designed and built two prototypes of an anti-submarine floatplane designated the Blackburn G.P. or Blackburn General Purpose. It was not ordered but Blackburn developed a landplane version as the Blackburn R.T.1 Kangaroo (Reconnaissance Torpedo Type 1), [1] reflecting the Air Board's growing interest in using landplanes rather than floatplanes for convoy ...
The Blackburn G.P seaplane, (the second aircraft (serial number 1416) was sometimes referred to as the Blackburn S.P. for Special Purpose), was a British twin-engine reconnaissance torpedo floatplane of the First World War, built by the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co Ltd. [1]
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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 ]
14 July 1919: The first international commercial flight arrived in the form of a Caudron aircraft piloted by Etienne Poulet, carrying photos from Paris – Le Bourget Airport, in accordance with inter-government agreements celebrating the Treaty of Versailles. At that time, Hounslow Heath was the only approved aerodrome in the London area with ...
Aircraft Version Aug 1918 Mar 1919 Short 184: Aug 1918 Oct 1918 Sopwith Baby: Aug 1918 Oct 1918 Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2: F.E.2b Aug 1918 Nov 1918 Short 320: Aug 1918 Nov 1918 Blackburn Kangaroo: Oct 1942 Apr 1943 Short Sunderland: Mks.II, III Oct 1944 Nov 1945 Consolidated Liberator: Mks.III, VI Nov 1944 Feb 1945 Handley Page Halifax: Mk ...
In particular they designed, but did not build, the C.A.15A (C.A. being Blackburn's designation for commercial aircraft), an 11-seat passenger tri-motor monoplane. This had the central engine mounted above and clear of the high wing, the other two engines suspended below the wings. [ 1 ]
After the First World War the Royal Air Force named its three Blackburn Kangaroo training aircraft Pip, Squeak and Wilfred. During the Second World War Pip-squeak was the code name of a radio–navigation system fitted to some RAF fighters. This periodically transmitted 15-second tones from the aircraft's radio.