Hello!
Quite a nice looking Finnish-build Blackburn Ripon with Hispano Suiza V-12 photographed at Turkinsaari in summer 1937. This engine had 650 hp when the Bristol Pegasus II had 610 hp and Armstrong Siddeley Panther only 525 hp. Finnish Air Force decided not to upgrade the engines and so this is the only Ripon to have an inline engine.
Photo from “Suomen Ilmavoimat 1928-1940” by Keskinen, Partonen and Stenman.
Martti
By: RPSmith - 6th July 2007 at 11:54
Oh, lovely! 🙂
I don’t suppose they would consider a swap…
…how many Me163 have we got left? 😀
LOL
Roger Smith.
By: Creaking Door - 5th July 2007 at 23:40
One does survive see http://www.virtualpilots.fi/feature/photoreports/ripon/
Oh, lovely! 🙂
I don’t suppose they would consider a swap…
…how many Me163 have we got left? 😀
By: Martti Kujansuu - 5th July 2007 at 18:05
Or was this the only Finnish-built Ripon with a Hispano-Suiza and the other Finnish-built Ripon had Bristol Pegasus or Armstrong Siddeley Panther?
That’s correct. RI-159 was the only Finnish Ripon to have inline engine. Didn’t know British Ripons had inlines too!
Great to see the Ripon being re-assembled. What are the long term plans for its display ? Is owned by the air force if so will it go to Tikkakoski.
If I recall correctly all Finnish museum aeroplanes belong to the Finnish Air Force who has “donated” them to Sotamuseo (Finnish Military Museum). So technically Finnish Aviation Museums (At Tikkakoski, Vantaa, Vesivehmaa and Kotka) don’t own their planes.
Ripon will stay at Vesivehmaa for now because lack of space. There are plans to build a fifth aviation museum to Tampere or another one to Vantaa.
Martti
By: DOUGHNUT - 5th July 2007 at 16:40
Great to see the Ripon being re-assembled. What are the long term plans for its display ? Is owned by the air force if so will it go to Tikkakoski.
By: pogno - 5th July 2007 at 12:53
One does survive see http://www.virtualpilots.fi/feature/photoreports/ripon/
The one on floats is RI-159.
By: Creaking Door - 5th July 2007 at 10:53
Finnish-build Blackburn Ripon with Hispano Suiza V-12 photographed at Turkinsaari in summer 1937. This engine had 650 hp when the Bristol Pegasus II had 610 hp and Armstrong Siddeley Panther only 525 hp.
Finnish Air Force decided not to upgrade the engines and so this is the only Ripon to have an inline engine.
What about the Napier Lion engine?
Or was this the only Finnish-built Ripon with a Hispano-Suiza and the other Finnish-built Ripon had Bristol Pegasus or Armstrong Siddeley Panther?
Nice looking aeroplane, especially on floats, looks very tough, very businesslike.
I don’t suppose any survive?
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July 3, 2007 at 6:16 pm