The Bristol Type 72 Racer was a British racing monoplane designed by Wilfrid Thomas Reid and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company at Filton to demonstrate the capabilities of the Bristol Jupiter engine designed by Roy Fedden. After Frank Barnwell left the company in October 1921, Fedden and Reid worked on a monoplane with a wholly enclosed engine, and a single aircraft was ordered on 23 January 1922. It was a single engine mid wing monoplane with, unusually for the time, a retractable undercarriage. The 480 hp Jupiter IV radial was enclosed in the circular section fuselage with ducts to channel cooling air over the cylinders. One was built in 1922 and registered G-EBDR on 27 June 1922.
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The Bristol Type 72 Racer was a British racing monoplane designed by Wilfrid Thomas Reid and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company at Filton, England.
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The Bristol Type 72 Racer was a British racing monoplane designed by Wilfrid Thomas Reid and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company at Filton, England.
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The Bristol Type 72 Racer was a British racing monoplane designed by Wilfrid Thomas Reid and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company at Filton, England.
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One aircraft was built in 1922 and registered G-EBDR on 27 June 1922.
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The 480 hp (360 kW) Bristol Jupiter IV radial engine was entirely enclosed within the circular-section fuselage
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