Single engine behemoths; Avro and Blackburn Napier bombers
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This is excellent footage. It would take all the 1000 horses just to turn the prop. Must have been exciting times back then ... great clip ...
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What beautifully ungainly beasts! Great footage, what a find.
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I believe the Avro is the first prototype of the Avro 549 Aldershot, serial #J6852. The range and bomb-load quoted are utter fiction.
The Blackburn is the Cubaroo, a bomber built to Air Ministry spec 16/22, to carry a 21" torpedo 800 miles. An article in "Flight" (Aug 28, 1924), refers to a visit to the factory, where the weather was "about as disagreeable as possible", so the film may have been made then.
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Fantastic vintage footage, I never even knew these planes ever existed.
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By the way I think you will find it is a 1910 Blackburn Monoplane based in no small measure o the Antionette, which was unsuccessful in beating Bleriot, dumping Hubert Latham in the English Channel.
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one thing hasn't changed, the terrible Lancashire weather. Mots of the 'erks' were using the enormous wing to shelter from the driving rain.
There were two competing designs at the time. Possibly they were inspired by the more experimental 'R' German bombers of WW1 one of which looked like an enormous fighter. The geared prop turned slow slowly you could see the blades.
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I suggest the Blackburn aircraft to be retrospectively named "The Double Whopper."
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I couldn't find any info on a Blackburn buit airplane called Antoinette so I'm sure that the plane at the end of the clip is in fact a Lavavasseur Antoinette
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I had a flight in an Antonov An-2 a few weeks back. It now rates as 'the world's largest single engined biplane' but is a toy in relation to these monsters. Thanks. Keep them coming !
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Bomberguy you are wonderful. Keep it up. Incidentally, I am sure that what is going on here at the end is that the Blackburn company is comparing the first aircraft it built, an "ANTOINETTE", c.1911, with its 1920s design, to show us how much bigger and more powerful aircraft have become in just a decade.
denberg2 4 years ago
Yes, info on these aircraft seems very difficult to find. Both are very similar and I'm not sure if they share the same design but both seem to use the 16 cylinder, 1K Hp Napier engine.
Bomberguy 4 years ago