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GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO May 2021 Bristol's Brabazon - the largest and most complex commercial aircra of its day - was a monumental failure as Ken Ellis explains The Brabazon posed for photos on the way to its second appearance at the Farnborough airshow in September 1950 ALL KEY COLLECTION UNLESS STATED 34 FlyPast May 2021 Brabazon became the first officially recognised "Brit" to fly in his country of birth and on March 8, 1910 "Brab" qualified for Aviator's Certificate No 1. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO This October 1949 photo shows test pilot "Bill" Pegg (left) and Brabazon designer "Archie" Russell in an informal moment during testing BRISTOL VIA KEC Inside Stories BRISTOL BRABAZON "M y side's airborne… what about yours?" He was addressing his co-pilot, "Wally" Gibb, on the maiden voyage of the immense Bristol Brabazon airliner on September 4, 1949. Bristol F.2B Fighter D8096 and G-AGPW; the biplane was handed to the Shuttleworth Collection in February 1952 BRISTOL VIA KEC 32 FlyPast May 2021 Airplane fuselage silver metal texture with rivets. [Extracted from the article]