Frank Barnwell
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Frank Barnwell (1880 - August 2 1938) was an aeronautical engineer, who performed the first powered flight in Scotland and later went on to a career as an aircraft designer.
In 1908-9 Barnwell and his brother Harold were working at the Grampian Motors & Engineering Company in Stirling and building their prototype aeroplane. In 1909 Harold piloted the first powered flight in Scotland, in a field in Causewayhead under the Wallace Monument. A small monument to the brothers' pioneering achievement has been erected at Causewayhead roundabout.
Frank Barnwell went on to work for what became the Bristol Airplane Company, designing aircraft including the Bristol Blenheim.
He was killed in a plane crash in 1938.
[edit] External links
- RAF history article on Barnwell's role in the Bristol Blenheim
- Story from The Scotsman on the memorial
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