The Bristol Glider was an early British two seat biplane glider designed in the 1910s by George Challenger, chief engineer of the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, and built at Filton Aerodrome. Challenger designed it for the company founder Sir George White, who presented it to the Bristol and West of England Aero Club after becoming its president in October 1910. It followed the layout of the Boxkite, with a foreplane well ahead of the wings on wire braced wooden booms and an undercarriage of long skids carrying small wheels, but with a single tailplane. It first flew from the landing ground at Keynsham on 17 December 1910, hand towed into the air, and survived until 1912.
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The Bristol Glider was an early British two-seat biplane glider designed in 1910s by George Challenger and built by the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company at Filton Aerodrome, Bristol.
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The Bristol Glider was an early British two-seat biplane glider designed in 1910s by George Challenger and built by the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company at Filton Aerodrome, Bristol.
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The Bristol Glider was an early British two-seat biplane glider designed in 1910s by George Challenger and built by the British & Colonial Aeroplane Company at Filton Aerodrome, Bristol.
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The Glider first flew from the landing ground at Keynsham on 17 December 1910, piloted by Challenger.
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