The Blackburn has a very special place in my heart as it was the first model plane I built from scratch with plans drawn up from picture. The triangular fuselage was not only strong, but was 25 percent lighter. This meant that even with a wingspan of nearly a meter , she would float gracefully through the air with only an .020 engine... Only for flying on windless days!😂
One thing that has always struck me about extremely old aircraft when watching videos of them on TH-cam is the many and varied starting sequences...obviously I know they were all hand swung, and I've flow a Tiger Moth myself (only dual, alas) and there's even this video here of one type, a pre WW1 Blackburn, needing to have the fuel injected into the cylinders by a man with a syringe! Now I know the Wright brothers didn't use syringes to start their aircraft, and so this just goes to prove how many varied starting procedures there were, SO: My question is, given that in pre WW1 Europe they didn't have "pilot's notes" or "flight manuals", how exactly did student pilots know how to start them? Ok, I know an instructor would have shown them, but who showed the instructor? Was it just one or two pilot-instructors who were shown by the manufacturer at the factory and then dissemination by word of mouth, or what? Or maybe they did have a manual after all? One thing I do know is that pre 1914 types were VERY tricky to start.
The Blackburn has a very special place in my heart as it was the first model plane I built from scratch with plans drawn up from picture. The triangular fuselage was not only strong, but was 25 percent lighter. This meant that even with a wingspan of nearly a meter , she would float gracefully through the air with only an .020 engine...
Only for flying on windless days!😂
What a sleek design for it's time,and flight characteristics seems in relation.Congratulations ans Thank you to the Shuttleworth team.
Very cool. Thanks for posting!!
Wow, I love this thing.
Incredible
Nice ! Amazing how fine an entry the wings have doesn’t seem to take much to get the lift working . Does Anybody know more on that topic interesting ?
One thing that has always struck me about extremely old aircraft when watching videos of them on TH-cam is the many and varied starting sequences...obviously I know they were all hand swung, and I've flow a Tiger Moth myself (only dual, alas) and there's even this video here of one type, a pre WW1 Blackburn, needing to have the fuel injected into the cylinders by a man with a syringe! Now I know the Wright brothers didn't use syringes to start their aircraft, and so this just goes to prove how many varied starting procedures there were, SO:
My question is, given that in pre WW1 Europe they didn't have "pilot's notes" or "flight manuals", how exactly did student pilots know how to start them? Ok, I know an instructor would have shown them, but who showed the instructor? Was it just one or two pilot-instructors who were shown by the manufacturer at the factory and then dissemination by word of mouth, or what? Or maybe they did have a manual after all? One thing I do know is that pre 1914 types were VERY tricky to start.
Buen vuelo congrulations my friend 🤝✈️
It doesn’t get much more by the seat of your pants than that.