The Blackburn Mercury was an early British aircraft designed in 1911 as a pilot trainer for the Blackburn Flying School at Filey. It was an enlarged, two-seat version of the Second Monoplane that had flown earlier the same year, a mid-wing monoplane of conventional configuration with the pilot and student in tandem in open cockpits. The prototype was shown at the Olympia Aero Show in March 1911 and led to orders for two racers for the Daily Mail Circuit of Britain race. The first crashed on takeoff, and the second was rebuilt as a two-seat trainer and then as a single-seat trainer known as the Type B. Six more Mercuries were built for private buyers, and a non-flying replica built for the television series Flambards is displayed at the Yorkshire Air Museum.
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