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£iM DECEMBER it, 1019 The Blackburn Type " T.B." seaplane, two 110 h.p. Clerget engines its engine and pilot. The fuselages were connected at their forward end by the main biplane structure and at the rear by the tail. As the machine was of the seaplane type, each fuselage had under its forward end a plain non-stepped float and a smaller tail float under its stern. In spite of the twin fuselage arrangement, which is not usually conducive to beauty of outline, the T.B. was, as will be seen from the accompanying illustrations, by no means an ugly machine, and her performance was very good, both as regards speed and climb. In fact, we understand that as regards the latter she established a record for altitude. The first experimental machine was fitted with two 100 h.p. Gnome monosoupape engines, but these were replaced, in the production machines, by two no h.p. Clergets. The, Triplane Scout. (December, 1915) In appearance one of the most extraordinary aeroplanes ever built was a little Blackburn triplane produced in 1915. At that • time the synchronised machine gun had not been generally adopted, and consequently there was a demand for machines in which the pilot was free to fire in a forward direction. The D.H.2, for instance, was a reply to this demand, and the Blackburn triplane was designed with a similar purpose in view. The machine was provided with a machine gun firing forward through the nose of the nacelle, and consequently gave the pilot a very free field. In a rearward direction also the view was quite good, the middle plane being on a level only slightly lower than that of the pilot's eyes. The engine fitted was a rotary 100 h.p. Gnome or HO h.p. Clerget, both being tried. Considering that the machine was a pusher, which type is not usually as fast as the tractor type of machine of the same power, the performance of the Blackburn was quite good, the maximum speed being 115 m.p.h. With the invention of the synchronising gear for machine guns the raison d'Stre for the pusher type disappeared and the construction was discontinued. The "G.P." Seaplane, or "Kangaroo" Seaplane. (July, 1916) Probably the best known of all the Blackburn machines is the " Kangaroo " land machine, and it is not generally known that the prototype of this machine was a seaplane. This is, however, the case, the machine which led to the production later of the famous " Kangaroo " being a seaplane with two engines placed on the wings, and otherwise being, generally speaking, similar to the land machine that was to follow. This machine was known as the " G.P." (general purpose) seaplane, and the EEEEBEHE E The Blackburn triplane scout. 100 b.p. Gnome Monosoupape 3 E H B" E E E E E E E E E B E m u m 1582
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