British Vintage Fighter Plane
by Maj Seda
Title
British Vintage Fighter Plane
Artist
Maj Seda
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A beautiful vintage BE2c aircraft, the first British military aircraft flying at Wings and Wheels Top Gear Track, Surrey 2014.
The BE2c was designed and built in 1912 at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough and was Britain's first-ever military aeroplane. Designed with artillery observation in mind, it was the most stable aeroplane ever built.
At the outbreak of hostilities, the BE-2, was a mainstay of the Royal Flying Corps, along with French types such as Bleriot monoplanes and Maurice Farman pusher biplanes.
This aircraft is a replica BE-2c commissioned in 1969 by the makers of the film Biggles Sweeps the Skies. Designed by film model specialist David Boddington, it was built and flown in just sixteen weeks by vintage aircraft specialist Charles Boddington at Sywell, Northamptonshire, based on de Havilland Tiger Moth components.
Flown, crashed and stored for 25 years in the USA, it was restored to fly again by co-owners Matthew Boddington, son of the original builder, and Steve Slater, back at its birthplace in the UK.
The original BE prototype made its first flight at Farnborough on 1st January 1912. It was certified by the Army Aircraft Factory on 14th March, becoming the first aeroplane in the World to be issued with an airworthiness certificate. The first aeroplane, BE-1, was originally powered by a watercooled Wolseley engine (with the radiator mounted in the pilot's line of vision!).
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September 13th, 2014
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