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The Bristol Bombay was built to Air Ministry Specification C.26/31 which called for a monoplane bomber-transport aircraft to replace the Vickers Valentia biplane in use in the Middle East and India. The aircraft was required to be capable of carrying 24 troops or an equivalent load of cargo as a transport, while carrying bombs and defensive ...
The Bristol Blitz was the heavy bombing of Bristol, England by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. [1] Due to the presence of Bristol Harbour and the Bristol Aeroplane Company, the city was a target for bombing and was easily found as enemy bombers were able to trace a course up the River Avon from Avonmouth using reflected moonlight on the waters, into the heart of the city.
Bristol Bombay: 1939: 1944: 51: RAF Bristol Buckingham: 1943: 1945: 119: RAF Consolidated PB2Y Coronado: 1937: ... List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II.
During the Second World War, with a few exceptions, such as the attacks from 17 to 21 June 1940 by a single aircraft of No. 216 Squadron on the airfields of El Adem and Tobruk, [7] the unit was principally a transport squadron, operating the Vickers Type 264 Valentia, Bristol Bombay, de Havilland DH86, Lockheed Hudson and Douglas Dakota.
Belfast or River Clyde to Bristol Channel: 1940 Belfast, 1945 Clyde 1943 Belfast, 1945 Clyde BC Bristol Channel to Bay of Biscay: outward and return convoys used same number BD White Sea to Dikson Island: September 1943 BK White Sea to Kola Inlet: Summer 1941 BTC Bristol Channel to River Thames: 1944 1945 165 CE St. Helens Roads to Southend-on ...
The Hamlyn Concise Guide to Axis Aircraft of World War II. London: Bounty Books. ISBN 0-7537-1460-4. Munson, Kenneth (1983). Fighters and Bombers of World War II. London: Peerage Books. ISBN 0-907408-37-0. Smith, J. Richard; Kay, Anthony L. (2002). German Aircraft of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750 ...
Bristol began producing gun turrets with its Bristol Type 120 submission for an Air Ministry specification. The turret was a glazed cupola over a Scarff ring mounted Lewis light machine gun. Although it had to be rotated manually, it provided protection from the slipstream for the air gunner. [28] and similar turrets were fitted to the Bristol ...
Interwar military aircraft are military aircraft that were developed and used between World War I and World War II, also known as the Golden Age of Aviation.. For the purposes of this list this is defined as aircraft that entered service into any country's military after the armistice on 11 November 1918 and before the Invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.