According to “Blackburn Aircraft since 1909” two aircraft carried the 121/C codes. One was EK723 but the Firebrand in your photo is EK771 – the digits are very close together.
Thanks very much, Paul. Lovely videos. I particularly enjoyed the Lympne one which features some rarely seen civil aircraft. I think I’m right in saying the DH Technical School TK.2 is one of them?
AA – are you getting a message to that effect? I couldn’t play the videos in the first browser I tried (Opera) but they played fine in Edge.
It looked weary for quite a few years, Prop Strike, but has benefitted from all the development work which has gone on at Balado in the past few years – including a new entry road which runs right past the JP. I believe the clean-up was done by a young man on work experience – he really did do a good job.
Unfortunately most of the other books in that series can’t be previewed. Of the ones that can I can’t see any more Birds or Speedbirds listed. Trawled my photos but only have shots of the CK model.
On Amazon.com they are selling a book called “U.S Civil Aircraft Series, Vol 2”. One of the aircraft covered is the Bird Model A and, conveniently, the chapter on it can be previewed by clicking to Look Inside and scrolling down. Hope there is some info in there you are looking for –
Well, it took quite a bit to track it down, RT, but finally found it. It’s the Vasin “Volgodonsk” designed in the late ’80s by Alexander Vasin. There’s very little info online that I could find other than that. I agree with Sopwith – it’s a nice looking machine.
I’ll quote it as the info is within quite a lengthy discussion –
M-5 was built in late 80-s by a professional aerospace engineer who worked at an airplane factory in Russia. There were no drawings released, there was only 1 M-5 ever built. I saw it in person once in 1991. It was an impressive little airplane. It is impossible to market it now, unfortunately.
It had two x 25hp engines.
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