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TECHNICAL DETAILS BLACKBURN MONOPLANES Blackburn’s original hangar at Filey, with a Renault-engined Mercury III inside. AEROPLANE MERCURY I Nine Mercury monoplanes were built. Though alike they varied somewhat, reflecting the constant experiments and evolution of those early days, and came about as three sub-types. The first Mercury (today usually termed the Mercury I, or Mercury Type I) appeared at the third Olympia Aero Exhibition held in March 1911. A somewhat larger tandem two-seat development of the Light Type monoplane, it