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The British Aircraft Industry – The Blackburn Aircraft Company

The British Aircraft Industry – The Blackburn Aircraft Company

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The British Aircraft Industry – The Blackburn Aircraft Company
Author: Roy Evans

A series of books that cover the British Aircraft Industry in the Twentieth Century. From young men interested in ballooning or making model aircraft, they developed aircraft for wartime and passenger transport.

The Blackburn Aircraft Company was formed in the period running up to the First World War. Robert Blackburn had seen early flight in France and decided he wanted to build aeroplanes. He started in Leeds and expanded to produce planes for mainly the Royal Navy. Then in the 1930s, the Fleet Air Arm which continued until 1960, when the company became part of Hawker Siddeley Aviation.

During the 1940s Blackburn were responsible for most of the Fairey Swordfish and Short Sunderland production built under licence. From 1960 Hawker Siddely used the site for continued production of the Buccaneer, then the Hawker Hawk Trainer.


Author: Roy Evans has been a keen amateur military historian for forty years, studying the United States 8th Army Air Force, when he lived in East Anglia and more recently whilst living in Northamptonshire, Royal Air Force Bomber Command. Roy is a member of several organisations, supporting the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association for the last twenty five years and also the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby.

As a member of the Royal Air Force Historical Society for several years he regularly attends their meetings. He is the Retford U3A Group Leader for their Military History Group and is a regular speaker at their monthly meetings.

He has also written a number of books and has had a number of works published in specialist aviation magazines. He is a regular contributor to the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association’s journal ‘Memorial Flight’.

  • ISBN: 9781838133092
  • Format: Paperback
  • Product Pages: 225
  • Dimensions: 210 x 150 x 13 mm
  • Illustrations: includes black & white photographs