The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, which was used extensively in the first two years of...
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for the first time in Bristol's history. Since that time the Blenheim has gone through two additional series, the Bristol Blenheim Series 2, made from January...
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Produced by Fairchild-Canada, it was a license-built version of the Bristol Blenheim Mk IV bomber. In 1935, the British Air Ministry issued Specification...
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108 Bristol Blenheim Bristol Bolingbroke Bristol Bulldog Bristol Bullpup Bristol Type 101 Bristol Type 118 Bristol Type 133 Bristol Type 142 Bristol Type...
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past: the Beaufighter, Blenheim, Britannia and Brigand. In February 1997, Crook, then aged 77, sold a fifty per cent holding in Bristol Cars to Toby Silverton...
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Royal Navy Bristol Blenheim, a World War II-era light bomber used primarily by the Royal Air Force Blenheim Orange, a cultivar of apple Blenheim apricot...
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gained designing and building the earlier Blenheim light bomber. At least 1,180 Beauforts were built by Bristol and other British manufacturers. Beauforts...
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aircraft produced by the company include the 'Boxkite', the Bristol Fighter, the Bulldog, the Blenheim, the Beaufighter, and the Britannia, and much of the preliminary...
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The following are units which operated the Bristol Blenheim: Royal Australian Air Force No. 454 Squadron RAAF No. 459 Squadron RAAF Royal Canadian Air...
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Force in the late 1930s. The design was a contemporary of the British Bristol Blenheim (which was larger and designed purely as a bomber) and the German Messerschmitt...
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aircraft. For instance, Britain’s Royal Air Force used hastily converted Bristol Blenheim light bombers as twin engined heavy fighters. A materials shortage...
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early period of the war, roughly doubling between 1939 and 1943. The Bristol Blenheim, a typical light bomber of the opening stages of the war, was originally...
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later Bristol Blenheim, allowing for up to 400 hp (298 kW) depending on the customer's desires. Series 1 interior Series 1, rear view Bristol 411 Series...
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Sukhoi Su-2. Contemporaneous twin-engine light bombers included the Bristol Blenheim, Douglas B-23 Dragon, Kawasaki Ki-48 ("Lily"), Martin Maryland (also...
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from operational roles Brewster Buffalo (RAF) Bristol Beaufighter (RAF) strike fighter Bristol Blenheim (RAF) long range fighter and night fighter Curtiss...
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111. The twin-engined Bristol Blenheim and the obsolescent single-engined Fairey Battle were both light bombers; the Blenheim was the most numerous of...
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dual-control Bristol Blenheim and Lockheed Hudson – and the combat aircraft which the pilots would be expected to fly on graduation. The Bristol company's...
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control tower was a post war addition. 101 Squadron – a detachment of Bristol Blenheim which was part of 2 Group – were moved to West Raynham in May 1939...
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World War II, when 11 of 12 South African aircrew flying in three Bristol Blenheim Mark IV aircraft of No. 15 Squadron of the South African Air Force...
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Force was equipped with only 18 Bristol Blenheim bombers and 46 fighters (32 modern Fokker D.XXIs and 14 obsolete Bristol Bulldogs). There were also 58...
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1930s, No. 29 received Bristol Blenheim IF heavy fighters in December 1938. No 29 began the Second World War with its Blenheims, which at the period operated...
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RAF (1941) Bristol Blenheim IV No. 14 Squadron RAF (1941) Bristol Blenheim IV No. 30 Squadron RAF (1938) Hawker Hardy, later Bristol Blenheim I No. 45 Squadron...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Bristol Blenheim)
72 Squadron, equipped with Blenheims and commanded by Flight-Lieutenant David Archdale (Michael Redgrave). A Bristol Blenheim IV, restored from a Bolingbroke...
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World War II. PZL P.24 Gloster Gladiator Bloch MB.150 AEKKEA-RAAB R-29 Bristol Blenheim Fairey Battle PBY Catalina[page needed] Potez 63[page needed] Avro...
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as a medium bomber station, the squadrons there being equipped with Bristol Blenheim bombers. Part of No. 2 Group, No. 107 Squadron and No. 110 Squadron...
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bombers before seeing action during WWII on a number of fronts with the Bristol Blenheim. Reformed again in 1953 it went on to operate jet bombers such as the...
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serving with No. 219 Squadron as a sergeant pilot. Flying Bristol Blenheims and then Bristol Beaufighters on night fighting patrols over southeast England...
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sixty-nine Dornier Do 17 K (including 40 plus licence-built), sixty-one Bristol Blenheim I (including some 40 licence-built) and forty-two Savoia Marchetti...
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of a campaign medal Bristol Blenheim Blenheim Mk. IF – Fighter Command (night fighter) Blenheim Mk IVF – Coastal Command Bristol Beaufighter Mk. I – Fighter...
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transferred to No. 62 Squadron, a light bomber unit which received the Bristol Blenheim in February 1938. Just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War...
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