1914 Bristol Military Biplane replica-build update.
Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:27 am
Hi folks,
Yes, it's a warbird.
Please find the link to the website of our Bristol Military Biplane (usually known as a Boxkite) replica being built here at RAAF Point Cook, Victoria, Australia. It's being built to flying standard, and will fly. Most potential questions should be answered by the website, so please have a browse - if not, feel free to ask and I'll try and answer.
The object is for 'Project 2014' to have an airworthy replica Boxkite to hand over to the RAAF Museum for the 100th anniversary of the first military flight in Australia, at Point Cook, which will be on March 1st 2014.
http://www.boxkite2014.org/
The update page is here:
http://www.boxkite2014.org/updates/updates.htm
Please give the photos a moment to load.
The Bristol Biplane family were very important in military aviation. Most of the stats were eclipsed by the Great War, but it was the first aircraft type to achieve credible mass production, export sales in significant numbers to foreign governments (rather than individuals) and the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company (later Bristol) realised that training was the key and set up one of the first schools turning out a large number of pilots prior to W.W.I.
There are no surviving genuine Boxkites, but the examples you'll be familiar with from Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines were built by Miles aircraft in the 60s with American engines. One hangs in the Bristol Museum, one is in the Museum of Army Flying at Oakey in Queensland and there's one flyer - the Shuttleworth Collection's machine, now, as a replica a veteran (at 40 years old) itself.
Hope it's of interest!
Yes, it's a warbird.
Please find the link to the website of our Bristol Military Biplane (usually known as a Boxkite) replica being built here at RAAF Point Cook, Victoria, Australia. It's being built to flying standard, and will fly. Most potential questions should be answered by the website, so please have a browse - if not, feel free to ask and I'll try and answer.
The object is for 'Project 2014' to have an airworthy replica Boxkite to hand over to the RAAF Museum for the 100th anniversary of the first military flight in Australia, at Point Cook, which will be on March 1st 2014.
http://www.boxkite2014.org/
The update page is here:
http://www.boxkite2014.org/updates/updates.htm
Please give the photos a moment to load.
The Bristol Biplane family were very important in military aviation. Most of the stats were eclipsed by the Great War, but it was the first aircraft type to achieve credible mass production, export sales in significant numbers to foreign governments (rather than individuals) and the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company (later Bristol) realised that training was the key and set up one of the first schools turning out a large number of pilots prior to W.W.I.
There are no surviving genuine Boxkites, but the examples you'll be familiar with from Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines were built by Miles aircraft in the 60s with American engines. One hangs in the Bristol Museum, one is in the Museum of Army Flying at Oakey in Queensland and there's one flyer - the Shuttleworth Collection's machine, now, as a replica a veteran (at 40 years old) itself.
Hope it's of interest!
Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:36 pm
Very nice James.
When I last got to Point Cook, about a year ago, only a handful of interplane struts and a cardboard rib template were visible.
What progress!
Well done to all concerned.
Steve.
When I last got to Point Cook, about a year ago, only a handful of interplane struts and a cardboard rib template were visible.
What progress!
Well done to all concerned.
Steve.