Bristol Freighter - Wikipedia
The Bristol Type 170 Freighter is a British twin-engine aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company as both a freighter and airliner. Its best known use was as an air ferry to carry cars and their passengers over relatively short distances. A passenger-only version was also produced, known as the Wayfarer.
The 1940s Plane That Could Carry Cars: The Bristol Freighter
Sep 8, 2021 · The Second World War saw a major push to develop and build aircraft, which fed into commercial aviation. Soon afterward, the UK-built Bristol Type 170 Freighter was launched. This could carry passengers and vehicles over short distances and became very popular in the UK and many other countries.
Bristol Freighter - Price, Specs, Photo Gallery, History - Aero Corner
The Bristol Type 170 Freighter was a twin-engine aircraft manufactured by the British Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was designed as a freighter and an airliner and was well-known as an air ferry to transport cars and their passengers on fairly short ranges.
Bristol Superfreighter - Wikipedia
Powerplant: 2 × Bristol Hercules 734 14-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines, 2,000 hp (1,500 kW) each; Propellers: 4-bladed de Havilland constant-speed fully-feathering metal propellers, 14 ft (4.3 m) diameter; Performance. Maximum speed: 225 mph (362 km/h, 196 kn) at 3,000 ft (910 m)
Bristol 170 Freighter - BAE Systems
The Bristol 170 (Bristol Freighter) was one of the first new commercial aircraft to be flown in Britain after the end of the Second World War and the prototype (G-AGPV) flew for the first time on 2nd December 1945.
Bristol Freighter · The Encyclopedia of Aircraft David C. Eyre
May 8, 2019 · Designed initially as a military freighter capable of operating from hot, semi-prepared landing areas with a payload of between four and five tonnes, and the ability to load and unload freight quickly through clam-shell doors in the nose, the Bristol Freighter proved to be reasonably popular with some 214 examples of the type being built.
Bristol Freighter, CF-WAE - Royal Aviation Museum of Western …
The 170 MK 31 Freighter was designed and built as a military transport aircraft and was always considered to be "just a little on the ugly side."
Bristol Freighter VH-ADL - Moorabbin Air Museum
The Bristol Freighter was the first purpose-built civilian heavy freight aircraft designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company at the end of WW2.
The Bristol Freighter – Bristol Owners Heritage Trust
The Bristol Type 170 Freighter was an all-purpose workhorse developed just after the war. It was widely used for short flight cargo ferrying; most memorably by Silver City Airways who flew cars and their passengers to the continent from 1948.
Bristol 170 Freighter Mk.31M - Air Force Museum of New Zealand
With its bulbous nose, clamshell doors and slab sides, there are few aircraft as distinctive as the Bristol Freighter, a solid workhorse which made its mark in the conflict zones of South-East Asia from the 1950s to the 1970s.