The Bremont sponsored Great War Display Team, flying during the RAF 100 themed RAF Cosford Airshow 2018.
Aircraft:-
1/. Replica Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c, G-AWYI - RFC 687
The B.E.2 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 B.E.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 B.E.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, B.E.1, was originally powered by a watercooled Wolseley engine (with the radiator mounted in the pilot’s line of vision).
2/. Avro 504K, G-EAOE
Built under licence in Argentina from original plans, this Avro 504 replica is owned by Eric Verdon Roe, great-grandson of Alliott Verdon Roe who founded the A V Roe Co Ltd (later shortened to Avro) which originally designed and built this aircraft.
3/. Replica Royal Aircraft Factory Scout Experimental S.E.5a, G-CCBN, coded 19, US Air Service 80105 -
Owned by Vic Lockwood this S.E.5a represents Blue 19 of the American 25th Aero Squadron, the only USAS squadron using S.E.5a's during the war. Based at Toul, only 2 patrols were flown by this squadron before the armistice. The aircraft was built in America, later sold to Holland and has been owned and operated by Vic since 2005.
4/. Replica Royal Aircraft Factory Scout Experimental S.E.5a, G-BDWJ, coded Z, F8010 - Owned by Dave Linney, this aircraft was built in 1978 and was the first SE built from the Replica plans to be built in Europe. First flight was in Dec 1978. It was completely refurbished in 2000. This SE5a represents Zulu of 85 Squadron, which was led by both Billy Bishop and Mick Mannock in 1918.
The RAF SE5, originally with a 150HP direct-drive Hispano-Suiza engine, first flew in November 1916. Only 77 of these were built before the engine was replaced by a geared 200HP version. The type went into squadron service in March 1917 and, with another engine change to the 200HP Wolseley Viper, they continued in service right up to the end of the war, with a total of 5,265 being built.
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