The Bristol Scout was a single-seat, rotary-engined biplane that began as a racing aircraft. Frank Barnwell and Bristol chief test pilot Harry Busteed designed it in the second half of 1913, and it first flew at Larkhill on 23 February 1914. The Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps used it as a fast reconnaissance type, a scout, which gave the class its name; single-seat fighters were still called scouts in British usage into the early 1920s. It was one of the first single-seaters used as a fighter, although no effective forward-firing gun could be fitted until British gun synchronizers arrived later in 1916, by which time it was obsolescent. About 161 Scout C airframes were built for the British military, with the Scout D following.
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Frank Barnwell and Harry Busteed, Bristol's chief test pilot
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A total of some 161 Scout C airframes were produced for the British military as a whole
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a single-seat rotary-engined biplane originally designed as a racing aircraft
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The first flight was made at Larkhill on 23 February 1914
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Frank Barnwell and Harry Busteed, Bristol's chief test pilot
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A total of some 161 Scout C airframes were produced for the British military as a whole
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