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Blackburn was no relation to the constructor, but was the instructor at the Blackburn School of Flying after it moved from Filey to Hendon in September 1912. He became M. G. Christie's personal pilot after the school closed in early
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Olympia Aero show in March 1914. Its forward fuselage was deeper, the engine almost fully cowled and the leading edge of the tailplane cut back to meet the fin. It flew sometime before 9 July 1914.
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Blackburn took nine-year-old Miss Isla Tudor up to a height of 6,000 feet. On another occasion the noise of the engine caused a horse pulling one of Messrs. Ouston's rullies to bolt, running over the cart driver.
401:: half-hourly flights between the Yorkshire Show (near Bradford) and Leeds on 22–24 July 1914. Billed as "the first regular air service of Great Britain", these were flown by Harold Blackburn in the first Type I.
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had the slightly rounded form of the modified Type D. The fin was shorter and less swept, not reaching the forward edge of the
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1 × Gnome et Rhône 7 cylinder rotary , 80 hp (60 kW)
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399:The Great Yorkshire Show Air Line
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1324:Single-engined tractor aircraft
729:"The 80 hp Blackburn monoplane"
500:700 ft/min (3.6 m/s)
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713:. London: Putnam Publishing.
711:Blackburn Aircraft since 1909
685:Blackburn Aircraft since 1909
152:as a two-seat version of the
1339:Aircraft first flown in 1913
1319:1910s British sport aircraft
1229:Fighters and Strike fighters
467:1,500 lb (680 kg)
190:rotary was fitted, with an
130:Blackburn Aeroplane Company
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998:Blackburn Second Monoplane
989:Touring and light aircraft
231:Blackburn Second Monoplane
993:Blackburn First Monoplane
461:950 lb (430 kg)
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302:trophy sponsored by the
1329:Rotary-engined aircraft
428:General characteristics
406:Specifications (Type I)
62:Blackburn Aeroplane Co
757:"The War of the Roses"
709:Jackson, A.J. (1968).
644:Bridlington Free Press
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1278:Firecrest
1273:Firebrand
1213:T.9 Shark
1198:T.5 Ripon
1188:T.3 Velos
1178:T.1 Swift
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323:Mai Bacon
312:A. V. Roe
288:Sheffield
284:Doncaster
192:aluminium
181:tailplane
122:monoplane
67:Designer
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1183:T.2 Dart
1133:Kangaroo
1118:Airedale
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1093:H.S.T.10
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292:Barnsley
177:kingpost
138:seaplane
134:training
85:Retired
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1048:Mercury
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1289:Racers
1148:Sydney
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1018:Type D
762:Flight
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154:Type D
41:sports
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1063:Velos
1053:Sprat
974:B-108
969:B-107
964:B-104
959:B-103
954:B-102
949:B-101
944:B-100
597:1913.
435:Crew:
310:with
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188:Gnome
88:1915
38:Role
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1163:B-88
1158:B-54
1153:B-20
1138:Iris
939:B-95
934:B-94
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924:B-89
919:B-88
914:B-67
909:B-54
904:B-48
899:B-46
894:B-45
889:B-44
884:B-40
879:B-37
874:B-29
869:B-26
864:B-25
859:B-24
854:B-20
715:ISBN
362:RNAS
280:York
116:The
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1253:F.3
1203:T.7
1083:B-7
1068:B-3
1043:B-2
849:B-9
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