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    The Bristol Scout was a single-seat rotary-engined biplane originally designed as a racing aircraft. Like similar fast, light aircraft of the period it...
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    The Bristol Scout E and F were a British single-seat biplane fighters built in 1916 to use newer and more powerful engines. It was initially powered by...
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    The first parasite aircraft flew in 1916, when the British launched a Bristol Scout from a Felixstowe Porte Baby flying boat. The idea eventually developed...
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    built Bristol Types 1–5 Scout A-D Bristol Type 6 T.T.A. Bristol Type 7 F.3A Bristol Type 8 S.2A Bristol Types 10, 11, 20, and 77 M.1 Monoplane Scout Bristol...
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    squadron received several single-seat scouts, and some early F.E.2 'pushers'. One aircraft received was a Bristol Scout C, with RFC s/n 1609 that Hawker,...
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  • aircraft flew in 1916, during World War I, when the British launched a Bristol Scout from a Felixstowe Porte Baby flying boat. Between the World Wars, American...
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    The Bristol M.1 Monoplane Scout was a British monoplane fighter of the First World War. It holds the distinction of being the only British monoplane fighter...
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    very short range. The earliest versions of the Bristol Scout to see aerial combat duty in 1915, the Scout C, had Lewis gun mounts in RNAS service that sometimes...
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    until shortly before World War I – the era within which the British Bristol Scout light biplane was designed for civilian use, with an airfoiled lifting...
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    and aggressiveness gained him access to the squadron's single-seat Bristol Scout fighter later that month. April 1916 also saw Ball's first mention in...
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    several Bristol-built aircraft, some original, some modern replicas, including Concorde Alpha Foxtrot, a Bristol Scout, a Bristol Fighter and a Bristol Bolingbroke...
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    base some three months earlier, while flying a Lewis machine gun-armed Bristol Scout C, military s/n 1611, Royal Flying Corps Captain Lanoe Hawker shoots...
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    company paid for the Scout Group to have a new building built. The Saint Leonard's Scout Group merged with the 48th Bristol Scout Group and they then became...
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    Sopwith Pup (redirect from Sopwith Scout)
    development Sopwith Camel Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Bristol Scout Fokker D.II Halberstadt D.II Nieuport 17 Related lists List of aircraft...
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    and launching a lighter aircraft – in this case a Bristol Scout – taking off carrying the Bristol and successfully releasing it on 17 May 1916, a technique...
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    fighter such as the Sopwith 1½ Strutter or the Bristol Fighter. This usage "scout" (or sometimes "fighting scout") for "single-seat fighter" can be found in...
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    already obsolete however, and was initially supplemented by a mixture of Bristol Scouts and Nieuport 16s until replaced by the Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2b...
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    Squadron B.E.2c., was to be escorted by three B.E.2cs, two F.E.2s and a Bristol Scout from 12 Squadron and two more F.Es. and four R.E. aeroplanes from 21...
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    adjustment. Unfortunately, when the gear was fitted to types such as the Bristol Scout and the Sopwith 1½ Strutter, which had rotary engines and their forward-firing...
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    Factory B.E.2 variants (1914) Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 (1918) Bristol Scout (1915) Bristol F2B "Brisfit" (to 1931) Fairey Gordon Gloster Gauntlet Hawker...
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  • equipped with Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2cs, supplemented with a few Bristol Scouts, and moved to France on 22 December 1915, undertaking a reconnaissance...
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    Air Force, 2021. p. 425 Cowan, Brendan; Lax, Mark (25 April 2015). "AFC Bristol Fighter F.2b". Australian & New Zealand Military Aircraft Serials & History...
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    130 Bristol Scout UK 1914 Retired 374 Bristol Scout F UK 1918 Prototype 3 Bristol T.T.A. UK Zeppelin interceptor 1916 Prototype 2 Bristol Type 101 UK...
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    The Bristol Siddeley Nimbus, later known as the Rolls-Royce Nimbus, was a British turboshaft engine developed under license by Blackburn Aircraft Ltd...
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    Leonides Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah Bristol Centaurus Bristol Mercury Bristol Siddeley BS.100 Clerget 9B Bristol Siddeley Pegasus de Havilland Gipsy Major...
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    making it a flying horse. British scout aircraft, in this sense, included the Sopwith Tabloid and Bristol Scout. The French and the Germans didn't have...
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    Bristol Tramways in 1910. During World War I production of the Bristol Scout and the Bristol F.2 Fighter established the reputation of the company. The main...
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    unit of twelve B.E.2cs for reconnaissance and a scout component of two Airco D.H.2s and three Bristol Scouts. At first it was the only RFC unit in Macedonia...
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    headquarters at Woodhouse Park Activity Centre near the Bristol Channel and is divided into nine Scout Districts. Axe covering the area around the seaside...
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    511 Bristol-Coanda G.B.75 Sopwith Pup Voisin L Avro 504 Airco DH.2 Airco DH.5 Blackburn Scout Blackburn Twin Blackburn Blackburn Triplane Bristol-Coanda...
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