Quite a nice looking Finnish-built Blackburn Ripon with the Hispano Suiza V-12 photographed at Turkinsaari in the summer of 1937. This engine had 650 hp when the Bristol Pegasus II had 610 hp and the Armstrong Siddley Panther only 525 hp. The Finnish Air Force decided not to upgrade the engines and so this is the only Ripon to have an inline engine. Photo from “Suomen Ilmavoimat 1928-1940” by Keskinen, Partonen and Stenman
Quite a nice looking Finnish-built Blackburn Ripon with the Hispano Suiza V-12 photographed at Turkinsaari in the summer of 1937. This engine had 650 hp when the Bristol Pegasus II had 610 hp and the Armstrong Siddley Panther only 525 hp. The Finnish Air Force decided not to upgrade the engines and so this is the only Ripon to have an inline engine. Photo from “Suomen Ilmavoimat 1928-1940” by Keskinen, Partonen and Stenman


