Bristol Bagshot

The Bristol Bagshot, also called the Type 95, was a single prototype heavily armed twin-engined fighter built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company to Air Ministry Specification F.4/24, which asked for a three-man fighter able to carry two 37 mm Coventry Ordnance Works guns. Frank Barnwell designed it as a high-wing all-metal monoplane with an unusual triangular-section steel-tube fuselage and two 450 horsepower Bristol Jupiter VI radial engines on the wing. Barnwell had warned the Air Ministry that the equipment demanded would make the aircraft overweight, but the contract was kept. Cyril Uwins first flew it at Filton on 15 July 1927, and trials showed that twisting of the wing caused control reversal in roll. The project was abandoned and the aircraft, serial J7767, was scrapped in 1931.