Bristol Brownie

The Bristol Type 91 Brownie was a light sports monoplane produced by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1924 for the Lympne light aircraft trials. Frank Barnwell designed it as a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a fixed tailskid undercarriage, the pilot and passenger sitting in tandem open cockpits and a small Bristol Cherub engine driving the propeller. Three were built and named Jack, Jill and Jim, with a wooden wing and two different metal wings so that Bristol could compare constructions. Flown by Cyril Uwins, the first aircraft won the 1,000 pound second prize at Lympne in October 1924, and a later modified version, the Brownie II, took third place in the 1926 trials. The Air Ministry was not impressed enough to fund development as a trainer.