It is fair to say that most of their products in the '30's were mediocre
I heard once that an A&AEE report said,
"Access to the cockpit of this aircraft is difficult, and should be made impossible."
I believe the subject was a Blackburn type - does anyone know which?
Rhys.
PS The Blackburn B2 was in the '100 years of flight' line-up at RIAT last year.