BRISTOL SCOUT 1264: REBUILDING GRANDDADS AIRCRAFT (HB)

In 1913, Frank Barnwell designed the Bristol Scout, one of the fastest and most manoeuvrable warplanes of WWI, and the one from which all later fighters were derived. As a result Barnwell became one of the seminal figures in the development of aircraft design. In 1983, his grandson David discovered three aircraft parts from Scout no. 1264 in Frank’s workshop and twenty years later he, together with his friend Theo Willford, began investigating the possibility of rebuilding her from these three parts.