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Aeroplane Monthly 1993-06 / Personal album. Civil
One of the first Brunner-Winkle Bird As being demonstrated at Roosevelt Field in 1929. Designer Michael Gregor, formerly of the Imperial Russian Air Service, subsequently collaborated with Sasha Seversky on the SEV series.
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Air Pictorial 1956-11 / Air Pictorial's photo-review
Регистрационный номер: N789Y PERTH AMBOY BIRD BK (N789Y) was first built in 1929 by Bird Aircraft Corporation (later Brunner Winkle), with models A, B and C differing in powerplant. Model BK is a three-seater (front, side-by-side, single rear) powered by 100-h.p. Kinner K-5 radial.
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Air-Britain Archive 1998-02 / Extracts
Регистрационный номер: X855W The sole Bird Model E single-seat cabin biplane as X855W prior to taking part in the 1931 Ford Reliability Air Tour in which it force-landed with engine failure.
Het Vliegveld 4.7.31 - Fourteen aircraft begin National Air Tour of America.
Het Vliegveld 4.7.31: The National Air Tour for the Edsel B Ford Reliability Trophy (to give it its full title) was the seventh and last annual event over a 4,858 miles course from Detroit and back. There were 24 starters and the Tour finished on 25.7.31 with Harry L Russell declared the winner in Ford 13A trimotor NC433H c/n 13-A-1. The Bird Cabin Model E NR855W c/n 6001 force-landed on 6.7.31 after engine failure. There were other forced landings and withdrawals, including the first fatal crash of the Tours, of C F Sugg at Wheeling, West Virginia on 7.7.31. -
Flight 1934-11 / Flight
A DETRACTABLE UNDERCARRIAGE: Mr. Mils Burcham, the American aerobatic pilot, looses a wheel from his Bird biplane while stunting at the recent National Air Races, Cleveland. Note the wheel bouncing on the ground. Burcham made a perfect dead-stick landing on one wheel.
