Admiral Puff Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I've long held a fascination for this wonderful piece of weirdness, but there doesn't seem to be much information around about it. I've got the article that was in Aeroplane Monthly many years ago, and a couple of pictures from the interweb, but that seems to be it. it's certainly the sum total of my knowledge! Can anyone point me at anything else, please? A decent set of drawings would be especially useful - the AM article included a very small set of GAs, but the detail in them disappears as soon as they're blown up to any decent size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 This thing was tested just up the road at Martlesham Heath. Found a couple of 3 views on Wiki images, some photos and an R/C model or two. Not much else though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Swindell Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 No excuses for getting the wheels wrong - there's one still extant and on display at the science museum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimK Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 There's a superb photo on eB at the moment, with heavy bidding. Worth a look. Good luck with your quest, it's a fascinating machine. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alancmlaird Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Bit late with this, and no help really. I contacted the author (name escapes me at the moment) of the Beardmore Aviation book about drawings of another Beardmore product, He informed me that most of the Beardmore archives were destroyed in the Clydebank blitz. So if you build an Inflexible, whatever you glean (or 'extrapolate) from the existing published photos, nobody can refute your decisions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Might be worth chasing up the original German Rohrbach designs that it was based on: it was otherwise known as the Ro VI. I don't think that it was a direct copy of any of them but there may be guidance to the way things were done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alancmlaird Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 3 hours ago, Graham Boak said: Might be worth chasing up the original German Rohrbach designs that it was based on: it was otherwise known as the Ro VI. I don't think that it was a direct copy of any of them but there may be guidance to the way things were done. I wonder how much of their stuff survived the bombing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Good point. I don't know, however I simply meant look at some of the photos and descriptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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