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	First World War.com - Who's Who - Robert Blackburn
		Robert Blackburn (1885-1955) was a British aircraft pioneer with his company, the Blackburn Aeroplane Company, acting as a major aircraft supplier to the British government during the First World War.
		With the assistance of Harry Goodyear Blackburn built in 1910 the Blackburn Monoplane; such was its heaviness that it was consequently nicknamed the 'Heavy Type Monoplane'.
		The principal aircraft produced by Blackburn's company during wartime was the Blackburn Kangaroo, a twin-engine bi-plane adopted by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) for use in anti-submarine operations based in the North Sea.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/blackburn.htm (310 words)

	Blackburn Aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. was a British aircraft manufacturer.
		Founded 1914, as Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, a new factory was built at Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1916.
		The name was changed to Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. in 1939, and the company amalgamated with General Aircraft Ltd in 1949.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackburn_Aircraft (141 words)

	The Blackburn Buccaneer
		This aircraft was intended to penetrate the defenses of Soviet naval battle groups by streaking in at low level and high speed, then destroy them with a nuclear weapon in a "toss-bombing" attack.
		The aircraft was to have the capability of acting as a tanker.
		Blackburn engineers used area-ruling to improve the design's aerodynamics, while also increasing the storage capacity of the aircraft's fuselage, giving the aircraft a distinctive set of full-bodied curves.
	www.faqs.org /docs/air/avbucc.html (4942 words)

	Blackburn Buccaneer
		The prototype aircraft XK486 first flew on 30 Apr 1958 from RAE Bedford having been transported there by road from the Blackburn factory at Brough, on the banks of the Humber.
		On 26 Aug 1960 the new aircraft was formally named the Buccaneer S Mk1 — up to this time the aircraft was known as the Blackburn Aircraft Naval Aircraft or BANA for short which led to the Banana jet nickname followed the aircraft throughout its service.
		In Jan 1991, long after the aircraft should have been withdrawn from service, six aircraft were sent to participate in Gulf War 1 where they used their TIALD laser designator to identify targets from high level for accompanying Tornados to bomb with laser guided weapons.
	www.spyflight.co.uk /buccaneer.htm (1040 words)

	Tom Blackburn - Jolly Rogers CO
		Blackburn felt strongly that the Corsair was a better fighting plane and recommended that they stay with it.
		Blackburn was struck by the extraordinary natural beauty of the war zone: cobalt blue waters, green-clad mountains rising up, with volcanic cones shrouded in misty white clouds.
		Blackburn also began to weed out the weak sisters, men with 'buck fever' - the inability to fire six 50 caliber machine guns at another human being, or men whose planes seemed prone to 'Kahili Knock' - frequent reported engine problems on tough missions.
	www.acepilots.com /usn_blackburn.html (6094 words)

	Blackburn Skua aircraft profile. Aircraft Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		The Blackburn Skua was a pre-war low-wing monoplane dive bomber with a distinctive 'greenhouse' cockpit.
		Skuas were the first British aircraft to shoot down a German aircraft in World War Two, and Skuas sank the German cruiser Koenigsberg which was the first large warship sunk by allied forces in the war.
		At dawn on 10 April 1940, 16 Skua aircraft from the 800 and 803 squadrons flying from Hatston in the Orkneys sank the German cruiser Konigsberg in Bergen harbour.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Aircraft/Skua.htm (1037 words)

	Harold Blackburn
		There were clear similarities between this aircraft and the earlier Avro 500, particularly as regards the undercarriage and general shape, but the 504 featured wings with forward stagger and was powered by a new 80-hp Gnome rotary engine.
		As both aircraft were two-seaters, it was decided that each would fly with a pilot and a passenger.
		As far as the relative merits of the aircraft are concerned, it must be recognised that the Type I was one of the last of Robert Blackburn’s monoplane designs.
	www.earlyaviators.com /eblackh3.htm (1221 words)

	The Blackburn Buccaneer
		Blackburn originally considered the Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire Sa.7 turbojet, but it proved too bulky and heavy, and the Gyron Junior engine was selected instead.
		The 20 DB aircraft were originally all retained by Blackburn for development and trials, but some were eventually brought to service fit and handed over to the Royal Navy.
		Tactical strike aircraft were not fitted with refueling probes, since mid-air refueling was not deemed necessary in the Central European operating environment.
	www.vectorsite.net /avbucc.html (7072 words)

	Blackburn Beverley
		At the same time, Blackburn Aircraft Ltd was looking for additional work to keep its Brough factory busy, and saw good future prospects in the GAL design.
		The first aircraft had been fitted with rear freight-loading doors hinged at about 30 degrees to the horizontal, together with a hydraulically powered ramp which took some 2.5 minutes to lower.
		In a (hopefully) unique display of neglect and incompetence, the aircraft was allowed to deteriorate to such a state that in 1990 it had to be cut up for scap.
	www.aeroflight.co.uk /types/uk/blackburn/beverley/Beverley.htm (2053 words)

	Trans Global Aircraft
		The Blackburn Beverley was a heavy-lift transport aircraft which served with the Royal Air Force between 1956 and 1967.
		The first order for 20 aircraft was placed for the RAF in late 1952, and the aircraft was renamed as the Beverley C Mk1.
		The Bristol 188 was developed by Bristol Aeroplane Co to meet specification ER134T for a M2.5 research aircraft.
	www.transglobalaircraft.co.uk /2584.html (854 words)

	Aircraft - Science Tracer Bullet - Library of Congress
		Aircraft can be classified as fixed-wing, rotary-wing, flapping-wing, and lighter-than-air.
		Unlike a lighter-than-air vehicle such as a balloon or blimp, whose weight is balanced by an upward buoyancy force, a heavier-than-air aircraft must be propelled and maintained in the air.
		These volumes are intended to be a factual story-telling account of little-known facets of the early formative years of the aircraft industry.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/aircrafttb.html (1792 words)

	Montague Francis Glew,
		The aircraft was also used by Harold Blackburn to fly copies of the Yorkshire Post newspaper from Leeds to York between July 23-25 1913.
		Similarly, Robert Blackburn, living from hand to mouth, had managed to sell one or two aeroplanes privately, and recently obtained an order for a fairly large single-seater monoplane for Cyril Foggin, a new enthusiast, and in its construction showed further early development, even though for cheapness there was reversion to wood construction.
		Robert Blackburn had been joined by a man of the same surname though unrelated, Harold Blackburn, who had learned to fly at Filey and then operated his namesake's Flying School at Hendon.
	www.earlyaviators.com /eglew.htm (955 words)

	BLACKBURN'S BIG HOG CORSAIR
		VF-17 was to become known as the "Skull and Crossbones Squadron" and as "Blackburn's Irregulars".
		For a time the aircraft also had their spinners and first 18 inches of their propellers painted in different colors to denote each flight - Blackburn's flight was marked red, Hedrick's white and so on.
		As he came out of the cloud to reengage the Zeros, Hedrick who had been waiting for his lone Zero to reemerge, saw the plane emerge from the cloud, dove, fired a a burst and instantly realized he was firing at another Corsair.
	www.aikensairplanes.com /speccast/blackbur.htm (685 words)

	RNHF Swordfish history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In all, 2391 aircraft were built, the first 692 machines by Fairey Aviation and the remainder under licence by Blackburn Aircraft Company at their works at Sherburn-in-Elmet and Brough, Yorkshire.
		The aircraft manoeuvred in a vertical plane as easily as it would at straight and level, and even when diving from 1,000ft, the ASI would not rise much beyond 200 knots.
		The horizontal stripes on the fin denote the Commanding Officer's aircraft, and the blue and red fuselage stripes are the colours for Ark Royal with the letter code 'A' being for the ship, '2' for the second squadron and 'A' for the first aircraft of that squadron.
	www.royalnavyhistoricflight.org.uk /Swordfish.htm (1107 words)

	Buccaneer
		There were changes coming for the Buccanesr with Blackburn Aircraft becoming part of Hawker Siddeley Aviation, and the government announcing the withdrawal of Britain's aircraft carriers by the end of the 1970`s.
		Further new aircraft were ordered for the RAF to supplement the ex-Naval aircraft, and the RAF found that the Buccaneer was very useful as a low level strike and reconnaissance aircraft, especially in Germany.
		During the spring of 2001 the aircraft was painted in European Aviation colours - one of the sponsors of the record attempt, being housed in the Museum from May 2001, where it has been restored to live status, being able to taxy up and down the Airport's runway from time to time.
	www.aviation-museum.co.uk /buccaneer.htm (970 words)

	Old Warden Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Robert Blackburn was born on the 26th March 1885 and became one of Britain's first aircraft designers and builders.
		The first flight of the Blackburn monoplane after restoration was made at nearby RAF Henlow on September 17 1949 by Group Captain A.H. Wheeler.
		The first public appearance of the Blackburn was made on the 25th September at the Royal Aircraft Establishments display at Farnborough.
	www.shuttleworth.org /html/shuttleworth/air2.htm (399 words)

	BLACKBURN B20
		His radical idea was to have the entire bottom of the flying boat hull able to be extended downwards for landing, and be retracted for flight, giving a slim streamlined fuselage and the promise of unprecedented speed for a flying boat.
		Three companies tendered designs for R1/36, along with the Blackburn proposal Saro and Supermarine both put forward projects (the Supermarine type 314 tendered was one of the last design projects RJ Mitchell had a hand in).
		The pilot was Blackburn's test pilot Flt Lt Harry Bailey, with him were Ivan Waller a Rolls-Royce flight test engineer, Fred Weeks a Blackburn flight test engineer together with Duncan Roberts and Sam McMillan both Blackburn aircraft riggers along to monitor instruments during the flight.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.dell/blackburn_b20.htm (1807 words)

	Aircraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Without further reports on the aircraft’s activities in the Mediterranean, the best guess is that she remained in the pool at Gibraltar as a replacement aircraft until the Swordfish was replaced as the RN’s principal torpedo bomber aircraft by the Albacore, and then returned to Fairey’s factory at Stockport for updating/maintenance during the winter 1942/43.
		Unfortunately the aircraft hit the fence with its undercarriage, and came to rest inverted in a ploughed field on the North side of Errol Airfield.
		NF389 was delivered from the Blackburn Aircraft Company’s Sherburn-in-Elmet factory on 15 April 1944 and was transferred to RAF charge 13 March 1945, details of her RAF service are unknown other than the fact that she was transferred to 29MU (High Ercall in Shropshire)) 28 August 1946.
	www.flynavyheritage.org.uk /Aircraft.htm (2458 words)

	Handley Page - Aircraft - H.P.88
		Designed in conjunction with Handley Page, the Type 88 was built by Blackburn Aircraft Ltd to Specification E6/48 which called for a research aeroplane incorporating a scaled-down version of the crescent wing to be used on the HP Type 80 bomber.
		The crescent wing of approximately 1/3 scale was married to a modified Supermarine 510 fuselage (Type 521) and the resulting aircraft was given the Blackburn designation YB2.
		Powered by a Rolls-Royce Nene the aircraft, VX330, was flown for the first time by the Blackburn test pilot G.R.I. Parker on 21st June 1951.
	www.handleypage.com /Aircraft_hp88.html (186 words)

	Blackburn Roc
		Of course a "fleet shadowing" aircraft could stay outside the range of the AA barrage and radio back the fleet's position to the enemy, and it was to destroy this kind of aircraft that the Roc was designed (and indeed it was for that purpose they were used off Norway in 1940).
		Also note that the second aircraft has a reflector gunsight and there is a gun camera mounted near the wing root.
		The fairing aft of the turret and the section of cockpit "greenhouse" between the pilot and turret were raised and lowered automatically to allow the turret to be rotated without obstruction, hence the difference in profile between the aircraft.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.dell/blackburn_roc.htm (2463 words)

	Paisley University Library Special Collections - Putnam Aeronautical 1968
		Blackburn military types have always been as elusive and as little publicised as the Silent Service for which they were built.
		This book is one of the better ones, not only because Robert Blackburn … set in train an interesting series of events for “A.J.J.” to record, but also because the recording has been better done than in some previous volumes.
		Notes: [d.j.] The second edition of this standard reference work to all the aircraft of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, is fully updated to include details of aircraft added to the inventory up to the beginning of 1976.
	library.paisley.ac.uk /services/specialcoll/putnam/ptn68.htm (1179 words)

	Fairey Swordfish I W5856
		The aircraft was flown from Sherburn-in-Elmet to Lichfield on 21 October 1941, and was packed by 82MU (Maintenance Unit), ready for shipment overseas.
		It appears that the aircraft was aircraft was subsequently dismantled at Errol, and sent to Fairey's Hamble factory for repair.
		The aircraft was painted in pre-war colours, representing a Swordfish of 810 NAS embarked in Ark Royal, wearing the codes [A2A].
	www.stringbag.flyer.co.uk /rnhf/w5856.htm (557 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Aircraft Museum - Buccaneer
		While most aircraft of the period stressed supersonic, high altitude flight, the Buccaneer was designed to a Royal Navy requirement for a bomber to fly subsonic, under-the-radar missions to penetrate enemy airspace without detection.
		In meeting these needs, the design team produced an aircraft with an advanced boundary layer control system for improved maximum lift, an area-rule shaped fuselage for reduced drag, and a large internal fuel capacity coupled with fuel efficient engines for superb range.
		The Buccaneer was also fitted with an internal bomb bay for up to four 1,000 lb bombs, thereby maintaining a clean exterior and allowing the aircraft to cruise at higher speeds and with lower fuel consumption than the Mirage III or F-4.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /aircraft/bomber/buccaneer/index.shtml (574 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		All Blackburn built Swordfish were affectionately but unofficially referred to as “Blackfish”, and some experienced pilots claimed that they could tell the difference when flying a Fairey or Blackburn machine.
		Swordfish aircraft have the distinction of being one of a very small number of aircraft which were in operational front line service at the outbreak of the second world war, and still in front line service after the declaration of peace in Europe.
		The other two aircraft in the first sub-flight were also shot down having first dropped their torpedoes; five of the six aircrew survived, and were rescued by MTBs.
	www.flynavyheritage.org.uk /History.htm (4078 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Aircraft
		The designation TBF-1B applied to 402 aircraft built for the Royal Navy, which the British initially called Tarpon T.R. Mark I, but later called Avenger T.R. Mark I. British Avengers were sometimes modified to British specification by Blackburn Aircraft, including the installation British oxygen systems and gunsights.
		While this slow release speed made the TBF vulnerable to antiaircraft fire, pilots were thankful that the Avenger was a tough aircraft, like all Grumman aircraft of that era.
		In the Atlantic, the Avenger was the obvious choice for use aboard British and American escort carriers in screening convoys and hunting down U-boats.
	uboat.net /allies/aircraft/avenger.htm (1393 words)

	Aircraft: Blackburn Buccaneer
		It was a twin engined, nuclear capable medium range bomber, with the capability of being launched from an aircraft carrier.
		It is credited with being used to sink more shipping than all Allied aircraft sank in WWII, after Buccanners were used to sink the Torrey Canyon super tanker off the Scilly Isles, and the South African's sank a similar super tanker off their coastline.
		One very unusual feature of the aircraft was it's rotating bomb bay door, used to keep the aircraft aerodynamically clean.
	www.maclean-nj.com /aircraft/types/buccaneer.htm (164 words)

	British Aerospace - Brough
		The company's reputation grew and in 1939 became Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. Orders declined following the end of WWII and in order to survive the company took on all kinds of non-aviation work, even making bread tins for the local Jackson's Bakeries in Hull.
		In 1949 the company amalgamated with General Aircraft Ltd and in 1955 won a contract to supply a new aircraft to the Fleet Air Arm.
		The first aircraft of its kind in the world, it was a great success for the company, dominating factory production for 19 years.
	www.cartoons.karoo.net /brough/BAe.htm (306 words)

	Corgi AA36302 - Diecast Model Fairey Swordfish Royal Navy No.810 Sqn, HMS Ark Royal, 1939: The Flying Mule
		Very little is known of the aircraft while she served in the Mediterranean.
		W5856 is painted in the pre-war color scheme of an aircraft serving in 810 Squadron from HMS ARK ROYAL.
		The blue/red/blue fuselage stripes were the color code for all aircraft embarked in the ARK ROYAL, the letter code signifies “A” for the ship, “2” for 810 Squadron, and the second “A” as for “Able” the call-sign of the aircraft.
	www.flyingmule.com /products/CG-AA36302 (764 words)

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