Описание
Страна : Великобритания
Год : 1914
Летающая лодка
Единственный экземпляр
Фотографии
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Air Enthusiast 1992-12 / P.Jarrett - Supermarine Origins
The completed, but engineless, P.B.1 on its stand at the 1914 Aero Show at Olympia, before its name was painted on the bows.
Although several years before its time, the flying boat exhibited by Mr. Pemberton Billing at Olympia in 1914 was undoubtedly the forerunner of the modern Supermarine flying boats. The actual machine was not a success, but all the essential features as circular-section hull, carefully cowled Gnome engine and three-bladed airscrew were there, and only needed proper combining. -
Air Enthusiast 1992-12 / P.Jarrett - Supermarine Origins
Noel Pemberton Billing in a characteristic pose with the P.B.1 at Olympia.
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Flight 1940-04 / Flight
The first "Supermarine." The P.B.1 was a biplane flying boat with 50 h.p. Gnome rotary engine driving a tractor airscrew. Note the grapnel in the bows.
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Air Enthusiast 1992-12 / P.Jarrett - Supermarine Origins
Noel Pemberton Billing, in the peaked cap, leads the engineless P.B.1 out for flotation trials.
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Air Enthusiast 1992-12 / P.Jarrett - Supermarine Origins
The P.B.1 on the Woolston slipway in May/June 1914 after modification, with the Gnome engine mounted on top of the hull behind the repositioned cockpit, driving a pair of pusher propellers.
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Air Enthusiast 1992-12 / P.Jarrett - Supermarine Origins
Billing taxying in the modified P.B.1 on the Itchen, May/June 1914. It failed to fly.
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Air Enthusiast 1992-12 / P.Jarrett - Supermarine Origins
The hull of the P.B.1 flying boat under construction in 1914.
