The Bristol Type 109 was a British two-seat long-distance
biplane
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 ...
built by the
Bristol Aeroplane Company
The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aircraft engines. Notable a ...
at
Filton Aerodrome
Filton Airport or Filton Aerodrome was a private airport in Filton and Patchway, within South Gloucestershire, north of Bristol, England.
Description
The airfield was bounded by the A38 road to the east, and the former London to Avonmouth r ...
, England.
[Jackson 1973, page 308]
Design and development
The Type 109 was a single-engine two-seat conventional biplane built in 1928 for an attempt on the world distance record.
The Type 109, registered G-EBZK and powered by a 480 hp (360 kW)
Bristol Jupiter VIII
The Bristol Jupiter was a British nine-cylinder single-row piston radial engine built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Originally designed late in World War I and known as the Cosmos Jupiter, a lengthy series of upgrades and developments tur ...
radial engine, was first flown on 7 September 1928.
The record attempt was abandoned and the aircraft was then modified to be used by
Bert Hinkler for a world flight.
The world flight was also abandoned and the aircraft was used by Bristol as an engine test bed for the
Jupiter XIF engine.
The Type 109 was scrapped in 1931, never having flown beyond the UK.
Specifications
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1920s British civil utility aircraft
Type 109
Aircraft first flown in 1928