Bristol Type 32 Bullet

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Type Description

• Type 32 Bullet
• Single seat biplane racer and engine test bed. It was a conventional single-seat biplane with single-bay wings of thin low-drag section braced by N struts. The wing and tailplane spars were all duplicated to permit the use of thin low-drag aerofoils without sacrificing stiffness. The wings were of nearly equal span, but the upper was greater in chord than the lower; ailerons were fitted only to the upper wing, and the wing roots were joined to each other and to the cabane struts on the aircraft centre line. The fuselage was a wooden four-longeron tie-rod-braced girder structure faired to a circular section. One 450 h.p. Bristol (originally Cosmos) Jupiter II powerplant.

• Type 32A Bullet
• Type 32 re-configured with a larger diameter, metal clad, forward fuselage, which virtually enclosed the engine fuselage.

• Type 32B Bullet
• Type 32A rebuilt as the Type 32B with new mainplanes of reduced span and chord, pronounced dihedral on the lower wing and ailerons on the lower instead of the upper wing. Wing gap was reduced, hence only a pair of short centre-section cabane pylons were fitted on the centre line, replacing the normal cabane struts.

Type 32 Bullet Specification
Span	Length	Height	Wing Area	Empty Wt	Max AUW	Cruise Speed	Maximum Speed	Range	Service Ceiling
31 ft 2 in	24 ft 1 in	9 ft 8 in	295 sq ft	1800 lb	2200 lb		155 mph/ 135 kn
9.5 m	7.34 m	2.95 m	27.41 m2	816 kg	998 kg		249 km/h

Production Details

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Production Summary

Production References

1. Bristol Aircraft Since 1910, C.H. Barnes (Putnam, 1964, 1970 and 1988)
2. British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1928, Peter W. Moss (Air Britain Publications, 1969)

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