Мировая Авиация 55

Blackburn B-88 был замечательным морским самолетом, но он проиграл еще более удачному Gannet.

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Регистрационный номерRegistry number: WB781   [5]

Blackburn's YA.5 WB781, competitor to the Gannet.

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Регистрационный номерRegistry number: WB781   [5]

WB781 was the Blackburn YA7, powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon.

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Регистрационный номерRegistry number: WB781   [5]

The Blackburn YA. 5 was a response to NR/A.9 and Spec. M.6/49

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The last of the three Blackburn anti-submarine aircraft built to Specification GR.17/45 was the Blackburn YB1.j44

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 2003-03

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: WB781   [5], WB788

We have no idea what this is. Or where the photograph was taken. At least the pilot seems to have some protection in the form of a windscreen!
The object in the last issue brought in only one response, from Peter Dance. While cataloguing the negatives of the late Maurice Gates for the photo library, he found a negative that showed a larger area. In it was Meteor EE476 and the two props visible in the photo belonged to Blackburn YA-8s WB781 and WB788.
This appears to place the photo as September 1953. The most likely purpose of the rig was to test arresting systems in the form of crash barriers, etc.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Gloster Meteor / G.41 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1943

Air Pictorial 1956-12 / C.Cain - Farnborough Graveyard

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: WB781   [5]

Skeletons in the cup­board include (left to right):
Westland W.34 Wyvern TF. Mk. 1 (VR133), one of the ten production models of the piston-engined Wyvern. The eight-blade Rotol contraprop was driven by a 2,690-h.p. Rolls-Royce Eagle, with twenty-four cylinders arranged in H-fashion. (Silver overall.) Blackburn B.54 (YA-5), the first prototype (WB781) of this two-seater, powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine driving contra-rotating propellers, flew for the first time on 20th September 1949. The second prototype (WB788), also carrying the type number B.54, was a three-seater and was designated YA-7. It was an interim test vehicle de­signed to the Fairey Gannet Naval Specification GR.17/45. Experience was gained with this machine, powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon, and paved the way to the turboprop-powered (2,950-e.h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba A.S. MD.l) three-seater YB-1 (WB797) which flew for the first time on 19th July 1950. Type number was B.88. (Dark sea-grey top, duck-egg blue undersides.)
Fieseler Fi 156K Storch (VX154), foreground. Tattered fuselage only. Mainplanes on the grass. (Time-ravaged brown and green camouflage.)
De Havilland D.H.112 Sea Venom F(AW) Mk. 20 (WK379). Tail boom of the second prototype showing the revised fin and rudder shape. Port wing panel on the grass. (Dark sea-grey top, duck-egg blue undersides.)

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: De Havilland Venom / D.H.112 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949Fieseler Fi.156 Storch - ГерманияGermany - 1936Westland Wyvern - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1946