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The Bristol Type 167 Brabazon was a large British piston-engined propeller-driven airliner designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company to fly transatlantic routes between the UK and the United States. The type was named Brabazon after the Brabazon Committee and its chairman, Lord Brabazon of Tara , which had developed the specification to which ...
Brabazon is a British mixed-use development located on land on the former Filton Airfield in South Gloucestershire, and is a new extension to the northern fringe of Bristol. [ 1 ] Background
One Brabazon was built and flown in 1949 with Bristol Centaurus radial engines but a planned Brabazon II with Bristol Proteus turboprop engines was not completed; the project folded in 1951 when, with BOAC having lost interest, issues with the first aircraft showed that a wing re-design was required for the Proteus. [18]
Brabazon (name), including a list of people with the name Baron Brabazon of Tara, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; Brabazon baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Ireland; Earl of Meath, a title in the Peerage of Ireland held by the head of the Brabazon family, including a list of Earls with the surname; Brabazon, Bristol, a place ...
Bristol is the second largest city in Southern England, after the capital London. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th ...
YTL Arena Bristol is a proposed 19,000-capacity indoor arena, to be located at the former Filton Airfield's Brabazon hangar. [5]Original plans were for the arena to be built next to Bristol Temple Meads railway station in Bristol, England, [6] and was expected to be completed in 2020. [7]
Filton's runway was wider than most, at 91 m (300 ft), and had a considerable length of 2,467 m (8,094 ft), having been extended for the maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon airliner in 1949. Its size was beneficial in the late 1960s and early 1970s for development and manufacture of the supersonic Concorde .
Filton Airfield, later Bristol Filton Airport, operated until the end of 2012.Although the Brabazon project was cancelled in 1953, the extended runway allowed Britannia production at Filton, Vulcan V bombers to be dispersed to Filton during the Cuban Missile Crisis and Concorde supersonic airliners to take off after being assembled at Filton.