Blackburn Turcock
Turcock | |
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Role | fighter |
National origin | United Kingdom |
Manufacturer | Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co. Ltd |
Designer | F.A Bumpus and B.A. Duncan |
First flight | 14 November 1927 |
Number built | 1 |
The Blackburn F.1 Turcock was a British single-seat single-engine biplane fighter built in 1927. Designed to be produced in several variants, only one was completed.
Development
In 1926 Blackburn partially deviated from their practice of building naval aircraft to design an interceptor fighter, intended to meet
The F.1 emerged as a clean biplane with swept and
On the only F.1 built, the Jupiter engine was uncowled. The intended armament of two 0.030 in (7.7 mm) machine guns on either side of the fuselage and firing through the two-blade propeller was never fitted.[1]
Operational history
Blackburn won no Air Ministry orders for the F.1 and indeed, no manufacturer received an order under either of the above Ministry contracts, but there was one Jupiter-engined F.1 built for the Turkish government. This aircraft was therefore named the Turcock. It was flown to Turkey under the British registration G-EBVP in January 1928 but was lost in an accident on 13 February.[1][2]
Specifications (Turcock)
Data from Jackson 1968, p. 239
General characteristics
- Crew: one
- Length: 24 ft 4 in (7.42 m)
- Wingspan: 31 ft 0 in (9.49 m)
- Height: 8 ft 11 in (2.72 m)
- Empty weight: 2,282 lb (1,035 kg)
- Gross weight: 2,726 lb (1,237 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar VI14-cylinder twin row radial , 446 hp (332 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 176 mph (283 km/h, 153 kn) at 15,000 ft (4,570 m)
- Endurance: 1.75 hours
- Service ceiling: 27,500 ft (8,380 m)
- Rate of climb: 1,300 ft/min (6.60 m/s) (initial)
References
- ^ a b c d Jackson 1968, pp. 237–9
- ISBN 1-55750-082-7, p. 196.
- Jackson, A.J. (1968). Blackburn Aircraft since 1909. London: Putnam Publishing. ISBN 0-370-00053-6.