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The Blackburn Type D, sometimes known as the Single Seat Monoplane, was built by Robert Blackburn at Leeds in 1912. It is a single-engine mid-wing monoplane.
Top speed: 97 km/h
Wingspan: 9.78 m
Length: 8 m
Designer: Robert Blackburn
First flight: late 1912
The Type D,[1] a wooden, fabric-covered single-seat monoplane powered by a 50 hp (40 kW) Gnome rotary engine, was built for Cyril Foggin in 1912.
The design inherited some features from the earlier Mercury: it too had thin wings of constant chord with square tips of about the same span as the later Mercuries and used wing warping rather than ailerons.
The wing was wire braced from above via a kingpost and below via the undercarriage, and was built up around machined I-section ash spars. The Type D also had the triangular cross-section fuselage seen on several of Blackburn’s aircraft from the Second Monoplane onward.
The Blackburn Type D monoplane was built in 1912 for Cyril Foggin. Harold Blackburn first flew the plane in December 1912, and used the Type D for a series of demonstration flights from Lofthouse Park, situated between Leeds and Wakefield, from March to May 1913. Foggin received his “wings”, RAeC #349 in November 1912 on a Bleriot monoplane,
and first flew his new Blackburn monoplane in March 1913 holding demonstrations with Blackburn. Blackburn also flew to neighbouring towns: to Stamford, dropping leaflets; to Harrogate, where he landed; and on three successive days in late July to York, carrying bundles of the Leeds-printed Yorkshire Post.
Later in 1913 Foggin sold the aircraft to Montague Francis Glew. Glew qualified RAeC #410 at the Blackburn school on a “Blackburn monoplane”, apparently an earlier model.
Glew gave flying demonstrations at towns in the English countryside, with several crashes, and on at least one occasion was involved in air racing (from Cardiff to Ilfracombe, cancelled due to weather).Glew crashed his aircraft in 1914, beyond his ability to repair as World War I began.
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