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PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:13 pm
by Nunner
For those of you who are interested in this company and its aircraft here is a link
that you may have yet to discover.
http://www.bnhistorians.co.uk/
When you get to the opening page click on photographs and then when you get onto that
click on "show photos" and then look at the fifth photo of PJ-WEB landing.
What this little plane was built for really.
Nunner

PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:25 pm
by waka172rg
good stuff nunner as i said in my last post that the islanders have the same performance as a Cessna 172 biggrin.gif

PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:42 pm
by Naki
Thanks for the link - Ill have a squiz through this (its not where I got the answer to the quiz) - we seem to be having a BN Islander moment hre on NZFF

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:21 pm
by Nunner
Naki wrote:
QUOTE (Naki @ Oct 11 2008, 07:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Thanks for the link - Ill have a squiz through this (its not where I got the answer to the quiz) - we seem to be having a BN Islander moment hre on NZFF


I know not too many people will know this but Bn also toyed with a twin engine,low wing,twin boom called the
Sheriff SA1 ts rego was G-FRJB , if you want to look at it the link is http://www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?q=G-FRJB&u=reg.
I think the biggest problem they had was that the Seneca had just been built so the project was kind of ambitious and really never
got started.
Britten Norman (2 blokes) actually contributed a lot for the aviation industry, the Trislander like it or not is a classic really or it will be
when it ceases flying, not that it should've in the first place.
As far as i know it can still be found loitering at EGNX
Nunner

PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:43 pm
by Naki
I remember seeing a 3 view of that - didn't know they actually built it - that was the Britten side of Britten Norman - the Norman side of Britten Norman also made some interesting aircraft that almost made it - the Firecracker, Turbo Firecracker (military trainers), the Fieldmaster (ag plane) and the Freelance (which orginally was the BN-3 Nymph - sort of a 172 look alike).