By: Dr. John Smith - 27th February 2012 at 19:43
Britten-Norman BN-1
The CAA registration document can be seen here: http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ALZE-2.pdf
and there’s a brief description on wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britten-Norman_BN-1
A page from Flight magazine (available on line) at http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1951/1951%20-%202407.html and http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1963/1963%20-%200634.html which is a brief history of Britten-Norman aircraft (up to 1963) – the relevant passage being this one:
“As might be expected, the organization came into being as the result of two personalities, John Biitten and Desmond Norman, the son of Sir Nigel Norman who founded Airwork in 1930.
They met as premium apprentices at the de Havilland Technical School in 1947, and subsequently designed and built an experimental ultra-light aeroplane known as the BN-1F. This machine crashed on an early flight, when the petrol supply to the JAP engine faded out. It was rebuilt, flown for a while, and now hangs in a boat store”
…and this is what the BN-1 looks like today http://www.caa.co.uk/applicationmodules/ginfo/ginfo_photo.aspx?regmark=G-ALZE&imgname=G-ALZE001&imgtype=jpg
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th February 2012 at 17:37
the solent museum sell a small booklet with interesting pictures of the BN 1
By: low'n'slow - 27th February 2012 at 11:37
Hello Jan,
There is quite a lot of information on the aircraft in Arthur Ord-Hume’s book “On Home Made Wings” and I am sure that Arthur can add further to his published knowledge as he helped rebuild and develop the aeroplane when the original design proved unsuccessful.
The book can be bought direct from the author at
aeromusic @ archive1.demon.co.uk.
(Please cut and paste Arthur’s address, closing the gaps each side of the @ – we are doing this to prevent inundations of ‘spam’).
By: Jan den Das - 27th February 2012 at 11:04
Thanks, a few of these sites I found already.
But Iam looking for something more, see my request.
Jan
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th February 2012 at 10:48
Jan…………..
The aircraft still exists and is in the Solent Sky Museum.
http://www.spitfireonline.co.uk/popup/exhibit3.html
Think that will answer many of your questions……….
Planemike
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