Blackburn: C.A.15C
Note: This is a sub-section of Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co
Type
- Experimental biplane and monoplane civil passenger aircraft.
Designer
Manufacturers
Number produced
- 2
Engines
- 2 x Armstrong Siddeley Motors: Jaguar IVC 14- cylinder two row radials, 400 hp (300 kW) each.
The Blackburn C.A.15C Monoplane and Biplane were a pair of British aircraft intended to be as similar as possible apart from the wing arrangement. Tests in 1933 did not favour conclusively either design.
The two C.A.15Cs were all-metal aircraft apart from the fabric-covered wings and tail surfaces. The fuselage, cabin and empennage were the same in both versions. The tailplane was braced and the fin and rudder rather angular and flat-topped, the rudder horn-balanced. Because the Air Ministry envisaged the aircraft going to Imperial Airways after the trials, the cabins were fully fitted out for 10 passengers, with two compartments containing six and four seats placed singly on either side of a central aisle. Warm air heating was fed from the engines. Between the enclosed cockpit for the two crew and the passenger cabins was a baggage compartment. [1]
The biplane G-ABKW flew first on 10 June 1932 and the monoplane G-ABKV on 4 October 1932. The biplane turned out to be heavy to fly and with unreliable brakes making taxying difficult. Tailwheels were quite new at the time and the aircraft was troubled by shimmy. The monoplane posed fewer problems.
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