Bristol Bulldog

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as G-ABBB ‘K2227’, the Bristol Bulldog IIA displayed by the RAF Museum at Hendon: the RAF’s standard day and night fighter of the early 1930s, which equipped ten squadrons, a single-bay biplane of 33 ft 10 in span with a longer upper wing, a metal-framed fabric-covered fuselage, a 490 hp Bristol Jupiter VIIF nine-cylinder radial with its cylinders exposed behind a collector ring, a split-axle undercarriage with oleo legs and twin Vickers guns in the fuselage sides; the last Bristol company demonstrator, built in 1930, flown again in 1961, crashed at the Farnborough show in 1964 and rebuilt for the museum in the 1990s; shown as displayed in the markings of a No. 56 Squadron Bulldog of 1933: silver-doped fabric, polished aluminium forward panels and a green top decking, red and white chequers along the fuselage sides and across the upper-wing centre section, type A roundels on the fuselage, on top of the upper wing and under the lower wing, ‘K-2227’ in black on the rear fuselage and on the rudder, blue, white and red rudder stripes, black struts, red wheel discs, a red reduction-gear cover, a polished spinner and a two-bladed wooden propeller. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1008 KB) · Plate 43 in The Hangar