Bristol Type 110A
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The Bristol Type 110A was a single-engine biplane, accommodating four passengers in comfort for charter work. Designed by Frank Barnwell and built at Filton Aerodrome by the Bristol Aeroplane Co. No orders were obtained and only one aircraft was built.
It was a single-engine, single-bay biplane that could be powered by one of two smaller relatives of the nine-cylinder Bristol Jupiter radial engine: the five-cylinder, 220 hp (164 kW) Titan or the seven-cylinder 315 hp (235 kW) Neptune. The wings were unswept, unstaggered and of almost equal span, but the lower plane was of much narrower chord than the upper. Frise-type ailerons were fitted only on the upper wing. The Type 110A was an all-metal, fabric-covered aircraft with a flat-sided fuselage, a horn-balanced rudder and an unbraced horizontal tail carrying unbalanced elevators. The passenger cabin, located between the wings, had three windows on each side, one of which was in the starboard side door.
The Type 110A, registered G-AAFG, first flew with the Titan engine, piloted by Cyril Uwins on 25 October 1929, after its appearance with a mock-up Neptune engine at the Olympia Aero Show in July that year, where its well-appointed cabin impressed visitors but gained no orders. The Neptune was installed in January 1930 and testing proceeded satisfactorily until the aircraft was damaged in a landing accident in early February; as there were no orders in sight, it was decide to abandon the project and the aircraft was scrapped.
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