housed a crew of four and was powered by a 750-hp Bristol Pegasus VI engine giving the aircraft a top speed of 135 mph, range of 600 miles and a service ceiling of 18,500 ft. Armament consisted of two

known as the Vincent Mk I it was powered by the 635-hp Bristol Pegasus IIM3 engine, giving the aircraft a top speed of 142 mph, range of 625 miles with a service ceiling of 19,000 ft. Armament was one

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

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

Albacore Mk I would originally be powered by the 1,060-hp Bristol Taurus II engine before being replaced by the 1,130-hp Taurus XII engine. This gave the aircraft a top speed of 161 mph, range of 930

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

3 piloted by Oberleutnant Armin Faber mistook the Bristol Channel for the English Channel and ended up landing at RAF Pembrey and an intact example was in the RAF's hands. This was then sent to the Royal

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

the Bristol Bulldog, which had entered service the previous year in May 1929. Powered by the 525-hp Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIS engine on the 25th March 1931, flying from Brooklands and piloted by Hawker