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104: 447: 170:, one of the outstanding aircraft of the war. With the exception of a short period between October 1921 and October 1923, when he briefly emigrated to Australia to work as an aviation advisor to the Australian Government, he worked as Bristol's head of design for the rest of his life, designing aircraft such the 126:, made the first powered flight in Scotland, piloted by Harold in July 1909. but was wrecked on the second attempt to fly it. The third, a mid-wing monoplane, was built during 1910 and flown by to win a prize for the first flight of over a mile in Scotland on 30 January 1911 at Causewayhead under the 119:. The brothers had built an unsuccessful glider in 1905, and between 1908 and 1910 they constructed three experimental powered aircraft. The first lacked sufficient power to fly, but the second, a 1710: 1745: 1720: 261: 166:
but in August 1915 was released from service to become chief designer at Bristol. Here he put his experience of service conditions to use by designing the
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at the same time and received a BSc in naval architecture in 1905. He then spent a year in America working as a draughtsman for a shipbuilder.
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Barnwell was killed in an aircraft crash in 1938, piloting a small aircraft he had designed and had constructed privately, the
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7 June 1918 - Captain Frank Sowter Barnwell. Aeroplane Designer, The British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, Limited to be an
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Frank and Marjorie (née Sandes) Barnwell had three sons who all lost their lives in the second world war:
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In 1907 he returned to Scotland and established the Grampian Motors & Engineering Company in
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The aircrat was thrown into the air when it struck a bump when taking off from
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Gutman, J. "Bristol F2 Fighter Aces of World War 1". Osprey Publishing 2007.
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1 September 1918 - Capt. Frank Sowter Barnwell, OBE awarded the
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RAF history article on Barnwell's role in the Bristol Blenheim
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to work on an unconventional seaplane project for the
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Index

OBE
AFC
FRAeS
BSc
aeronautical engineer
Harold
Bristol Aeroplane Company
Bristol Fighter
Bulldog
Blenheim
Lewisham
London
Glasgow
Fettes College
Edinburgh
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
University of Glasgow

Stirling
Harold
canard
biplane
Wallace Monument
British and Colonial Aeroplane Company
Admiralty
Dennistoun Burney
Bristol-Burney seaplanes
Bristol Scout
Harry Busteed
Royal Flying Corps

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