Bristol Blenheim

Video Title :	Bristol Blenheim
Description :	Bristol Blenheim East Fortune July 2000. As the Allied Ground and Air Forces faced defeat in May 1940 the RAF had to use its light bomber force in desperate daylight raids against German army bridgeheads in France and the Low Countries. The Blenheim Ivs and Fairey Battles used in these attacks suffered crippling losses. In fact no higher loss, in operations of a similar size, has ever been suffered by the Royal Air Force. The Blenheim IV, with its redesigned and longer nose, superseded the Blenheim I on the production lines in 1938. The original short nose Blenheim I had been developed from a civil aircraft and was one of the first new high performance monoplanes ordered under RAF Expansion Plans. After the fighting in France was over Coastal and Bomber Command Blenheim Ivs began day and night attacks against German occupied ports and installations in frantic attempts to disrupt their invasion plans. These attacks continued through into 1941 and on 4 July Wg Cdr H.I. Edwards was awarded the Victoria Cross for his part in a daylight bombing attack on Bremen while flying a Blenheim IV. A number of night fighter conversions were made from early Blenheim Is and later Blenheim IVs but their lack of speed precluded any great success. Blenheim IVs also served in North Africa and the Far East.
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Keywords, Tags :	Aviation Flying WW2 Blenheim Aircraft RAF Airplane
Video Length :	9 : 0

Comments :

there was alot of british aircraft used by the fins after they were allies with germany so u had like hurricanes gladiators etc flying with swastika's on them.

This is acctuly not a blenheim, but a canadian built bollingbroke.

I remember seeing one of these on the airshow circuit in the eighties. Saw it at Biggin Hill around 1987... a few weeks later it had to perform an emergency belly landing on a golf course, and it was back to the workshop for a long restoration. Is this the same a/c?

yes

Excellent. Very pleased it made it back into the air.

It then crashed a second time and is now being rebuilt to flying condition again.

I think they are clearing the bottom cylinders of any oil that could have drained into them.They will pull through on the prop to activate the valves and allow any excess oil to drain out.

I think he is priming fuel into the engine.

Question ? what is the airman doning in the engine before starting it.

finnish had that plane in ww2 when the russian bustards attacked us..