Blackburn F.2 Lincock

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Type Description

• F.2 Lincock I
• Single seat private venture lightweight single bay biplane fighter of wooden construction. The fuselage was a near perfect plywood monocoque, located at mid-gap between the wings by an N shaped arragement of struts below and short centre section struts above. The unswept wings featured dihedral on the lower planes only, and were built up of spruce spars and ribs, the whole being fabric covered. Ailerons were fitted on all four mainplanes. The tailplane construction was similar. All flying surfaces had square tips with rounded corners.One 240 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IVC powerplant driving a 2-bladed fixed-pitch propeller.

• F.2A Lincock II
• Lincock I redesigned as an all-metal aircraft. The fuselage was composed of three detachable units : the engine mounting, the centre and cockpit structure, and the rear fuselage. The engine mounting was built up from duralumin plate, while the fuselage consisted of four steel-tube longerons, all diagonal bracing being by struts instead of tierods. The fuselage was faired into a rounded shape by the addition of Duralumin stringers, fabric covered for the rear fuselage but fitted with removable duralumin panels over the cockpit and engine cowling. The wings featured main spars of special drawn sections of high-tensile steel strip, and ribs of duralumin. The upper wing was built as one complete unit, and the lower wing is in two halves attached at the centre. The aircraft featured a split undercarriage, with the main legs mounted further aft than those of the Lincock I. The gap between the lower wing and the fuselage was now filled in with an aerodynamic fairing. The fin was slightly tapered and uncreased in area, and strut bracing added to the tailplane. One 255 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IV powerplant.

• F.2B Lincock III
• Armed version of the Lincock II, though reverting to the undercarriage of the Lincock I with a through axle. 2 × forward-firing .303 in Vickers machine guns, located in troughs on the fuselage sides. One 270 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley Lynx Major powerplant.

Projected Variants

• F.2B Lincock II
• Lincock II variant with unspecified alternative powerplant.

• F.2C Lincock II
• Lincock II variant with unspecified alternative powerplant.

• F.2E Lincock III
• Proposed version for Spain.

Production Details

Foreign Derivatives

Notes

1. Blackburn used a series of Works Order Numbers rather than Constructors Numbers to identify individual airframes, but referred to here as C/n's for consistency.
2. Originally purchased by General Ho Chien, the Governor of Hunan Province, China in October 1930, and Supplied via Arnhold Aviation Dept, subsidiary of Arnholds and Company, Shanghai, he was prevailed upon to surrender them both to Nanking Central Government service. They arrived in Shanghai aboard the SS Glengarry in December 1930, were assembled at Lunghua aerodrome and then transferred to Nanking in May 1931 where they were assigned to the 6th Squadron of the nascent Central Government air force [6][7].
3. The relationship between serial and works order is unknown.
4. In 1934, this aircraft was donated to the College of Aeronautical Engineering at Brooklands as an instructional airframe. As a project, the students re-engined the aircraft in 1936 with a lighter Alfa Romeo engine, lengthening the nose by an additional bay in order to preserve the aircraft’s centre of gravity.

Production References

1. Blackburn Aircraft Since 1909, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1968 and 1989)
2. https://air-britain.com/web/da-civil/
3. British Isles Civil Aircraft Register 1919-2011 (LAAS International)
4. British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1928, Peter W. Moss (Air Britain Publications, 1969)
5. British Civil Aircraft Registers G-FAAA-'FAAZ (1920-1928) and G-AAAA-'AAZZ (1928-1930), Peter W. Moss (Air Britain Publications, 1971)
6. http://www.aviationofjapan.com/2013/06/robert-short-first-flying-tiger.html
7. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/355151120599032316/?lp=true