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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Aviation (Bri-Bz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bristol Beaufighter was a mid-wing, cantilever, all-metal monoplane that carried a pilot in the nose and an observer aft of the wings.
		The Bristol Type 175 Britannia was a series of British airliners developed during the 1940s in response to a requirement from BOAC for an airliner for its medium-range Empire routes, and was adopted by the British military in 1959, remaining in service until 1975.
		Bristol Fighter was armed with a synchronized, forward-firing Vicker's machine-gun and two or three Lewis machine-guns on a Scarff ring in the rear cockpit.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /IBE.HTM (2217 words)

	Bristol Hercules - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bristol had introduced their first sleeve valve designs in as the 750 horsepower (560 kW) class Perseus and the 500 hp (370 kW) class Aquila, which they intended to supply throughout the 1930s.
		The first Hercules engines were available in 1939 with the 1,290 hp (960 kW) Hercules I, soon improved to 1,375 hp (1,025 kW) in the Hercules II.
		It was used in the Avro York and Bristol Freighter cargo planes, the Short Solent flying boat, and the Handley-Page Hermes and Hastings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bristol_Hercules (333 words)

	Hercules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hercules was the name in Roman mythology of the hero Heracles from Greek mythology, the son of Jupiter (or Jove, the Roman name for the Greek god Zeus) and the mortal Alcmene.
		Hercules can be identified by his attributes, the lionskin and the club.
		The cult of Hercules may have been the first foreign one to be adopted in Rome; his most important shrine, the Ara Maxima, was in the original Palatine settlement.
	www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=Hercules (434 words)

	Bristol Aero Collection
		Bristol started building aero engines on the Filton site around 1920, but the line can be traced back to the Brazil-Staker motorcar manufacturer, who built Rolls-Royce engines under licence during World War I. The company was taken over by Cosmos Engineering, who built the Mercury and the Jupiter radial engines.
		The Bristol Hercules has 14 cylinders in two rows, and is a sleeve-valved radial air-cooled engine.
		A scaled-down version of the engine, the Bristol Siddeley Gyron Junior, was used on the Bristol 188 stainless steel research aircraft, which was designed to investigate the effect of supersonic speeds on airframe structure.
	www.bristolaero.i12.com /exengines.htm (1394 words)

	Bristol Beaufighter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike the Beaufort, the Beaufighter had a long career and served in almost all theatres of war, first as a night fighter, then as a strike fighter, and eventually replaced the Beaufort as a torpedo bomber.
		Improved versions of the Hercules continued to improve the load capacity of the fighter, although performance didn't tend to increase.
		However well the Beaufighter performed, the Stirling bomber program had a higher priority for the excellent Hercules engine by late 1941, and the Rolls Royce Merlin XX powered Mk.II was the result.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bristol_Beaufighter (836 words)

	The Definitive 1/72 Scale Model Census. Listing by Aircraft Manufacturer: Bristol. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1/72 Brigand 1/72 Bristol Brigand 1/72 Brigand B Mk I 1/72 Brigand B Mk.
		I 1/72 Brigand Mk I 1/72 Britannia 300 1/72 Bristol Britannia 1/72 Bristol Buckingham 1/72 Buckingham B Mk I 1/72 Buckingham B Mk 1 1/72 Buckingham B Mk.
		1 1/72 Buckmaster Mk I 1/72 Buckmaster Mk 1 1/72 Bristol Bulldog 1/72 Bulldog Mk IIa 1/72 Bulldog Mk IVa 1/72 Bulldog Mk.
	www.72scale.com /aircraft/Bristol.htm (334 words)

	Hercules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hercules was the name in Roman mythology of the hero Heracles from Greek mythology, the son of ZeusJupiter (or Jove, the Roman name for the Greek god Zeus) and the mortal Alcmene.
		The cult of Hercules may have been the first foreign one to be adopted in Rome; his most important shrine, the Ara Maxima, was in the original Palatine HillPalatine settlement.
		The constellation Hercules soars high in the east on early June evenings along with many other constellations that are beginning to stake a claim on the night sky, a sure sign that muggy summer nights and mosquitoes soon will be entrenching themselves as well.
	www.infothis.com /find/Hercules (715 words)

	Bristol Taurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bristol had originally intended to use the Aquila and Perseus as two of its major designs in the 1930s, but the rapid increase in size and speed of aircraft in the 1930s demanded much larger engines than either of these.
		Unlike the earlier engines, where the sleeve valve was a new and untried design, the Taurus was fairly well understood and was delivered running at almost the same power it ended with, at 1,015 hp (760 kW).
		The Hercules went on to see fairly widespread use, while the Taurus ended with the Beaufort after only a few years.
	dext.org /mediawiki/index.php/Bristol_Taurus (358 words)

	Bristol Aeroplane Company biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1959 Bristol was forced to merge with English Electric, Hunting and Vickers-Armstrongs to form the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), later to become part of British Aerospace - now BAE SYSTEMS.
		In the 1930s they developed a new line of radials based on the sleeve valve principle, which would develop into some of the most powerful piston engines in the world, and could continue to be sold into the 1950s.
		In 1956 the division was renamed Bristol Aero Engines, and then merged with Armstrong Siddeley in 1958 to form Bristol Siddeley as a part of the airframe mergers that formed BAC.
	bristol-aeroplane-company.biography.ms (377 words)

	WW2 Warbirds: the Bristol Beaufighter - Frans Bonné
		Bristol Beaufighter Mk IF The Bristol Beaufighter was the result of foresight of Bristol, and based on the Bristol Beaufort bomber.
		Although the Mk VI ITF was the perfect replacement for the Bristol Beaufort, crews still felt the engines were not optimally suited for the altitudes the plane was to fly at.
		Bristol then developed the Bristol Hercules XVII from a VI model, with the supercharger locked in medium state, and cropped impeller blades.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/brisbeaufight.html (1401 words)

	Hercules, hercules dynamite, hercules stingray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hercules stingray Hercules technologies Hercules dynamite The 12 labors of hercules Hercules stingray 128 3d Hercules fortissimo 2 Hercules ca Hercules 9700 Hercules slash Labors hercules
		This cluster, Abell 2151 in Hercules, is the prototype spiral-rich cluster.
		Hercules is another of the oldest constellations, but he was not known...
	www.blackscooter.com /hercules.html (971 words)

	Beaufighter, fighter, light bomber, work-horse
		Britain's lack of long-range heavy fighters when the war started was a source of acute embarrassment to the RAF single-engined interceptors such as the Hurricane and Spitfire lacked the endurance for effective standing patrols, and it was soon discovered that the heavy long-range fighter would be invaluable to perform a wide variety of tasks.
		The result was a piece of true British improvisation--the Bristol Beaufighter, which entered service a year after the outbreak of war, at a time when it was most sorely needed.
		The initial proposal was framed, as far as possible, to meet the requirements of specification F.11/37, and envisaged an aeroplane using a large proportion of Beaufort components, including the wings, tail assembly and undercarriage, a pair of Hercules radial engines and carrying a battery of four 20-mm.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-air-support/ww2-allied/beaufighter.htm (400 words)

	unusual British Aircraft
		The other contenders were the Bristol 151 single seat monoplane, powered by a Bristol Hercules engine.
		At the time of Munich Bristol proposed using Hercules engines on a new aircraft using mainly Beaufort components, this design was eventually called the Beufighter.
		Bristol submitted a Type 172 design of 100-ft span, powered by four 9,000 lb ST turbojets.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Village/4082/brit/odd_air.htm (1282 words)

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		Bristol 182 (P-GB-AM-B-?-?-J2) The Bristol 182R was designed for the 'Blue Rapier' project that asked for an unmanned, catapult-launched bomber.
		Bristol 188 (P-GB-A-X-D-N-JW2) The Bristol 188 was designed as a research aircraft for the {Avro 730} programme (itself cancelled).
		It was adapted from an earlier turreted fighter design, and as a consequence had a strange armament layout: the three 20mm guns were fitted behind the cockpit, pointing around 15 degrees up; the two in the lower fuselage were aligned at the same angle.
	users.skynet.be /Emmanuel.Gustin/faq/br_mil.txt (15195 words)

	Airliners.net: Bristol 170 Freighter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Design of the Bristol Freighter began in 1944 in anticipation of demand for a rugged airliner and freighter once WW2 was over, plus potential military requirements.
		Bristol's Type 170 started out as a private venture design and was developed under the leadership of technical director L G Frise (who also designed the Frise aileron).
		The last flight of a Bristol 170 was made on September 6 2004, when Hawkair Aviation ferried C-GYQS to the Reynolds Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.
	www.airliners.net /info/stats.main?id=132 (523 words)

	Bristol Beaufighter - history en
		When No 29 Squadron of the Royal Air Force became fully operational with the Beaufighter Mk IF in October 1940, it marked the beginning of operations by a night fighter that was completely capable of performing its task.
		For although the Bristol Blenheim IF, also equipped with the new A.I. airborne interception radar, was operational, the Beaufighter had two qualities which the other lacked -- speed and firepower.
		The Beaufighter prototype (R2052) had two-speed supercharged Bristol Hercules radials which were mounted well ahead of the wing leading edges to avoid vibration.
	www.military.cz /british/air/war/fighter/beaufighter/history.htm (1074 words)

	Bristol Aeroplane Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bristol Aeroplane Company (formerly British and Colonial Aeroplane Company) began building primitive Bristol Boxkites in a former tram shed and became famous for the production of the war-time Blenheim and Beaufighter, the Brabazon airliner prototype, the Britannia and Freighter and the Belvedere and Sycamore helicopters.
		A stainless steel test aeroplane, the Type 188, was also constructed in their factory next to Filton aerodrome to the north of Bristol city centre.
		Ministry of Defence Bristol Britannia makes a visit to the makers factory at Filton (Bristol, England) in 1983.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Aircraft-engine-manufacturers/Bristol-Aeroplane-Company.html (401 words)

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		Beaufighter, Bristol Twin-engined fighter and attack aircraft, using wings and tail of the Beaufort.
		Bristol 182 The Bristol 182R was designed for the 'Blue Rapier' project that asked for an unmanned, catapult-launched bomber.
		The Bristol Jupiter radials were lighter; to restore the balance the wings were slightly swept back.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/airforce/br_mil.txt (17484 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Aircraft
		They had 1050hp Bristol Pegasus XVIII engines, Vickers gun turrets in the nose and tail, and a retractable Nash and Thompson belly turret.
		The Mk.III had 1370hp Bristol Hercules III or XI engines, and had an usefully improved performance.
		The GR.XIII was a daylight version which could carry two 18-inch torpedoes, while the GR.XIV had a Leight Light for night operations, and rocket launching rails under the wings.
	uboat.net /allies/aircraft/wellington.htm (1020 words)

	Armstrong Whitworth A.W.41 Albermarle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With a change in the official specification, how ever, design responsibility was transferred to Armstrong Whitworth, under a team led by John Lloyd who was set the difficult task of taking over another company's creation and adapting it to meet Specification B.18/38 for a reconnaissance bomber.
		Designed for mixed composite steel and wood construction, the prototype flew in 1939, but was destroyed in a crash before the first flight of the second prototype on 20 March 1940.
		All Albemarles used the 1,590 hp (1186 kW) Bristol Hercules XI 14-cylinder radial engine, apart from a single Mk IV prototype with Wright Double Cyclones, and differences in the marks were primarily in equipment.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/albemarle.htm (1481 words)

	Beaufighter Flight Sims. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is our first package of the Bristol Beaufighter, we hope you enjoy the experience of the 'Whispering Death' This Package is dedicated to all those who built, maintained and flew the Beaufighter during WWII.
		No Mks III or IV and only two Mk V's were built the next major version being the Hercules powered Mk VI which came into service in 1942.
		This is our second package of the Bristol Beaufighter, we hope you enjoy the experience of the 'Whispering Death' This Package is dedicated to all those who built, maintained and flew the Beaufighter during WWII.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /p.myring/beau/models-n-sims/flight-sims/haskell (1190 words)

	4th Missile Battalion, 56th Artillery (Nike-Hercules) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Activated as a Nike Ajax battalion on 1 September 1958 in Bristol, RI, from the redesignation of elements of the
		Bristol Sep 58- Feb 61 Rehoboth Feb 61-Aug 63
		Bristol Sep 58-Feb 61 Rehoboth Feb 61-Dec 61
	ed-thelen.org /J-McGrath/N456.HTM (137 words)

	Vickers Type 271 Wellington - Variants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first prototype was problematic and was handed back over to Bristol in order to continue with the development of the engines.
		- Initially two 1,425 hp (1063 kW) Bristol Hercules III engines, but this was soon changed to the 1,590 hp (1186 kW) Bristol Hercules XI engines which gave a useful performance boost to this version.
		The cylindrical pressure chamber had a porthole in the lowere nose position for the bomb-aimer, and the pilot's head projected into a small pressurised dome which, although offset to port, provided little forward or downward view for landing.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/welly-v.htm (2001 words)

	The Bristol Beaufighter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bristol Beaufighter, the plane flown by 177 Squadron, was well known in many theatres of fighting in World War II, but it was in the Pacific in particular that "Beaufighter squadrons" had a unique reputation.
		The origin of the Bristol Beaufighter (see Bingham, 1994, for extensive details) followed from the Air Ministry recognition in 1938 that they had a problem in having neither a cannon-armed fighter nor a nightfighter on the stocks.
		Bristol was in process of developing the Beaufort torpedo bomber and their new chief designer, Leslie G. Frise, made a proposal to the Ministry for the creation of two-seater,cannon-armed fighter.
	www.burmabeaufighters.com /pages/beaufighters.php (2004 words)

	Airfix Bristol Beaufighter TFX UK
		Comments: First flown in 1939, the Beaufighter was in service with the RAF in 1940 as a nightfighter and, by 1943, she was in action with the Coastal Command.
		The T.F.X. was powered by two Bristol Hercules XVII engines, giving a top speed of 320 mph (512 km/h) and a loaded range of 1,400 miles (2,253 kilometres).
		In addition to the 18 inch torpedo, it was armed with four 20 mm cannons in the nose, one.303 machine gun in the dorsal position and either six machine guns or eight rocket projectiles on the wings.
	www.modelsforsale.com /catalog/product_info.php?products_id=36249 (428 words)

	Bristol Hercules 734 Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The engine was used on a Bristol Freighter located at Terrace, B.C. It suffered some damage and is no longer airworthy.
		This Bristol Hercules engine was used on the Bristol Freighter
		The Bristol Freighter is considered to be a little on the ugly side.
	www.bcam.net /engines/bristherc.htm (218 words)

	List of All Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bristol Beaufighter was a rushed design that incorporated much of the Bristol Beaufort's components, including the wing, tail, and landing gear.
		A new fuselage was designed to unite these existing components, and the potent Bristol Hercules sleeve-valve engine was chosen as the powerplant.
		This fourteen-cylinder engine was later uprated to over 1600 hp and this more powerful unit was fitted to what would become known as the Mk VI, or Torbeau Beaufighter.
	www.alphasim.co.uk /Shop_Factory/en-gb/p_209.html (316 words)

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