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The Blackburn F.2 Lincock was a British single-seat lightweight fighter produced by
Blackburn Aircraft Limited
Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north- ...
.
Design and development
In 1928 Blackburn designed and built a private venture lightweightbiplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
fighter powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IVC
The Armstrong Siddeley Lynx is a British seven-cylinder aero engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley. Testing began in 1920 and 6,000 had been produced by 1939. In Italy Alfa Romeo built a licensed version of this engine named the Alfa Romeo ...
engine. The Blackburn F.2 Lincock was of wooden construction and first appeared in May 1928. It performed well in demonstrations but failed to gain any orders. The Canadian government showed an interest in the design, and a metal construction variant (the Lincock II) was built. It was tested in Canada at Camp Borden in 1930 where there was interest in using the Lincock as an advanced trainer
A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews. The use of a dedicated trainer aircraft with additional safety features—such as tandem flight controls, forgiving flight characteristi ...
, but the type was not ordered. It was later used to perform public aerobatic displays in 1933 and 1934.
The final version was the Lincock III of which five were produced, two were delivered to China, two to Japan and one retained as a demonstrator. Interest from Italy resulted in Piaggio acquiring a licence to produce a two-seat version as an aerobatic trainer, though only one Piaggio P.11 was built.
Variants
;Lincock I:Wooden-construction prototype, one built. ;Lincock II:Metal-construction prototype, one built. ;Lincock III:Production version, five built. ;Piaggio P.11:two-seat aerobatic trainer, one built in Italy.
Operators
; *Chinese Nationalist Air Force
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* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
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received two aircraft.
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* Imperial Japanese Army Air Force received two aircraft.
Specifications (Lincock III)
References
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