The Bristol F.2 Fighter is a British First World War two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft developed by Frank Barnwell at the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company later known as the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It is often simply called the Bristol Fighter, "Brisfit" or "Biff".
Bristol F.2 Fighter
Bristol Fighter prototype with B.E.2d wings. Note column radiators on fuselage sides, forward of the wings.
Bristol Fighter with Foster-mounted Lewis gun
13th Squadron (Attack) - Dayton-Wright XB-1A, Kelly Field, Texas, 1921
Captain Frank Sowter Barnwell OBE AFC FRAeS BSc was a Scottish aeronautical engineer. With his elder brother Harold, he built the first successful powered aircraft made in Scotland and later went on to a career as an aircraft designer with the Bristol Aeroplane Company, designing aircraft such as the Bristol Fighter, the Bulldog and the Blenheim.
Memorial at Causewayhead, Stirling