Фотографии
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13], RE131 The structurally complete Brabazon I retires to its hangar after an afternoon’s engine testing late in 1948. Lancaster RE131, used to test the flight power control units, is in the background.
Самолёты на фотографии: Avro Lancaster / Type 683 - Великобритания - 1941Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] A rare colour photograph of the Brabazon I running up its Centaurus 20 engines at Filton.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] The Brabazon approaches Heathrow on its second visit, on July 25, 1951, when the author flew in it.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] The Brabazon makes an impressive appearance at the 1949 SBAC Show at Farnborough on its third flight.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13], G-AIML, VX343 Первый образец "Брабазона" и фюзеляж второго экземпляра машины, который так и не был закончен.
The Brabazon I, G-AGPW, and the uncompleted Brabazon II, VX343/G-AIML, outside the Filton assembly hall in 1953, shortly before they were scrapped.Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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One of the 7,000 h.p. Coupled Proteus propeller-turbine power units intended for the Brabazon Mk II, and for the Saunders-Roe Princess flyingboats.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949Saunders-Roe Princess / SR.45 - Великобритания - 1952
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] Bristol chief test pilot Bill Pegg gives the thumbs-up to denote a successful first flight.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] The Brabazon under construction in the enormous new assembly hall at Filton in January 1948. The eight Bristol Centaurus 20 sleeve-valve engines driving four six-bladed contra-rotating propellers are still to be installed.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] Taken from the roof of the new assembly building, this view shows the fire truck standing by as the starboard engines are run up.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] A Bristol Type 170 Freighter formates on the Brabazon I during an early test flight, after black markings had been applied to provide camera and photo-theodolite co-ordinates.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949Bristol Freighter / Type 170 - Великобритания - 1945
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] A close-up of the empennage, showing the inelegant and unnecessary faired mass balances initially fitted to the elevators and rudder.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] Burying the engines in the wing and fitting long driveshafts to the propellers enabled a much cleaner installation to be achieved.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] Inside the Brabazon’s fuselage; the double deck over the wing, looking aft.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Регистрационный номер: G-AGPW [13] For its day, the Brabazon’s cockpit was remarkably clean and neatly laid out.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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As originally conceived, Bristol’s Type 167 had pusher engine installations and a butterfly tail.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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Bristol Type 167 Brabazon
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
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A spread from the company brochure for the Brabazon Mk I.
Самолёты на фотографии: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - Великобритания - 1949
Статьи
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- Skywriters /Readers' letters/
- ??? - Inter-was samurai /Archive photographs/
- B.Gunston - The Begemoth from Bristol /Brabazon 50th/
- D.Lang - All-Weather Mac /Masters of the air/ (1)
- G.Bain - First Class Stearman /Civil air-to-air/
- J.Blackman - Anna's Aerobatic Young Man /Airshow performer/
- J.Golley - "Call up the Typhoons!" /First-hand history/
- J.Stroud - A million miles flown /A lifetime of flying/
- M.Oakey - Up the Nile in style /Flying in the Vimy/
- M.Oakey, T.Harmsworth - News
- M.Vines - Photo Masterclass /Aviation photography/ (3)
- M.Vines - Rutan's high-flying stick-insect /Unortodox aircraft/
- M.Willing - Fennec fever. The story of the armoured T-28s /Warbird history/
- R.Nesbit - Hunter's Moon /Anti-submarine warfare/ (1)
- T.Harmsworth, J.Havers - Gulf Air's First and Finest /Pioneer airliner/