30th August 1944 and was powered by four 1,680-hp Bristol Hercules XVIII engines. An order for 40 Seafords was placed with four 1,720-hp Bristol Hercules XIX engines powering the aircraft. Top speed

The Hampden Mk I was powered by a pair of 1,000-hp Bristol Pegasus XVIII engines which gave the aircraft a top speed of 254 mph, range of 1,885 miles with a service ceiling of 19,000 ft. Armament was

two Tempest Mk IIs, powered by the 2,520-hp Bristol Centaurs IV engine. The Tempest Mk III was powered by the Rolls-Royce Griffon IIB with the Tempest Mk IV installed with a Rolls-Royce Griffon 61 engine,

A number of aircraft manufacturers Airspeed, Bristol, General Aircraft and Hawker all considered the proposal but no submissions were made. Supermarine showed no interest and it looked like the project

with 1941 seeing a proposal for a Bristol Hercules powered Hurricane. Neither of these would progress further than the drawing board. A Rolls-Royce Griffon powered Hurricane was also considered but went

On this day the Bristol Beaufort she was on was returning from a sortie over Norway where it had been subject to flak. While trying to return to their home base, the aircraft, badly damaged, ditched into

began to replace their Bristol Blenheim Mk IVs with the type. Their first sortie with the type saw four raid Cologne, Germany on the 31st May 1942 with all returning back to base. Four months later

29 Hawker Hurricane 18 Supermarine Spitfire 6 Bristol Blenheim 2 Boulton Paul Defiant 1 Gloster Gladiator With a further two squadrons on loan from the Fleet Air Arm: No. 804 Naval Air Squadron

19 Supermarine Spitfire, 6 Bristol Blenheim and 2 Boulton Paul Defiant squadrons. It could also call on Nos. 804 and 808 Naval Air Squadrons, the former equipped with Gloster Sea Gladiators and the latter

would be part of a force of fighters escorting six Bristol Blenheims of No. 114 Squadron when they attacked an ammunition dump at Foret de Guines, France. The Spitfire Mk III was the next in the lineage