Blackburn: Type D
Note: This is a sub-section of Robert Blackburn's company.
Type
- Single seat monoplane.
Designer
Manufacturers
Number produced 1
Engines
- 1 x Gnome Engine Co: Omega 7-cylinder rotary piston engine, 50 hp (37 kW).
The Blackburn Type D, sometimes known as the Single Seat Monoplane, was built by Robert Blackburn at Leeds in 1912. It is a single-engine mid-wing monoplane. Restored shortly after the Second World War, it remains part of the Shuttleworth Collection and is the oldest British flying aeroplane.
The Type D, a wooden, fabric-covered single-seat monoplane powered by a 50 hp (40 kW) Gnome rotary engine, was built for Cyril Foggin in 1912. The design inherited some features from the earlier Mercury it too had thin wings of constant chord with square tips of about the same span as the later Mercuries and used wing warping rather than ailerons. The wing was wire braced from above via a kingpost and below via the undercarriage, and was built up around machined I-section ash spars. The Type D also had the triangular cross-section fuselage seen on several of Blackburn's aircraft from the Second Monoplane onward.[1]
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