Bristol Bulldog Flies Again – Master builder Ed Storo recreates the classic British fighter

Builder and pilot Ed Storos flies his magnificent replica Bristol Bulldog over the Pacific off the Oregon coast.

Developed in the late 1920s, the Royal Air Force’s Bristol Bulldog entered service in May 1929. The single engine, single seat biplane fighter was the RAF’s frontline fighter through most of the 1930s. Bulldogs were exported to Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Sweden in Europe and to the Asia/Pacific nations of Australia, Japan, and Siam. Although the type never drew blood in the air while serving with the RAF, it did, however, see use during...

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