Bristol Boxkite

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Bristol Boxkite, recorded May 2008

Bristol Boxkite, recorded May 2008.This is one of three Bristol Boxkite replicas built to be used in the film, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. One was sent to Australia, one to the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, and this one, operated at the Shuttleworth Collection.

 

The Bristol Boxkite was an improved version of the early Henri Farman biplane, built in 1910 by the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company.

The Boxkite was developed at Britain's first aircraft, Filton, Bristol (later to be known as the Bristol Aeroplane Company).

The aircraft was powered by a 70 horsepower "Le Rhone" rotary engine and first flew on the 29 July 1910.

 

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