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Boulton Paul Balliol: The Last Merlin-Powered Aircraft
Alec Brew
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Description for Boulton Paul Balliol: The Last Merlin-Powered Aircraft
Paperback. The Boulton Paul Balliol was the last Merlin-powered aircraft although it started life as the world's first turbo-trainer Num Pages: 128 pages, 152 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 167 x 9. Weight in Grams: 306.
The Boulton Paul Balliol was the last British aircraft powered by the iconic Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, and the last piston-powered advanced trainer in both the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm. Yet it began life as the world's first turbo-trainer, conceived in the last days of the Second World War, and became the first aircraft with a single prop-jet, beating the rival Avro Athena into the air by two weeks. However, policy changed and it was with the trusty Merlin that the Balliol ultimately went into production. Boulton Paul Aircraft hoped for huge orders-opening a second production line ... Read more
The Boulton Paul Balliol was the last British aircraft powered by the iconic Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, and the last piston-powered advanced trainer in both the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm. Yet it began life as the world's first turbo-trainer, conceived in the last days of the Second World War, and became the first aircraft with a single prop-jet, beating the rival Avro Athena into the air by two weeks. However, policy changed and it was with the trusty Merlin that the Balliol ultimately went into production. Boulton Paul Aircraft hoped for huge orders-opening a second production line ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781553619
SKU
V9781781553619
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Alec Brew
Alec Brew is an aviation author with over thirty books published, including a dozen on local aviation history. The founder of the Boulton Paul Association, Brew organised the preservation of their Balliol cockpit, serial WN149, now incorporated in a full-scale model of the aircraft at an RAF museum. He is the co-ordinator of Wolverhampton's Tettenhall Transport Heritage Centre where a ... Read more
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