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Bristol Freighter
Land	Uk
Rolle	Fragtfly
Første flyvning	2. december 1945
Bygget	214

Den Bristol Type 170 fragtskib was a British twin-engine aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company as both a freighter and airliner. Its best known use was as an air ferry to carry cars and their passengers over relatively short distances. A passenger-only version was also produced, known as the Wayfarer. The Freighter was developed during the Second World War, having attracted official attention from the British Air Ministry, which sought the development of a rugged vehicle capable of carrying various cargoes, including a 3-ton truck. Various changes to the design were made to accommodate their requirements, but being completed too late to participate in the conflict, the majority of sales of the Freighter were to commercial operators. In response to customer demand, an enlarged version to maximise vehicle-carrying capacity, known as the Bristol Superfreighter, was developed.

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Den Bristol fragtskib was a British twin-engine cargo aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the late 1940s. It was one of the first new commercial aircraft to fly in Britain after the end of the Second World War, and it had a distinctive box-shaped fuselage with clamshell doors in the nose for easy loading and unloading. The Bristol Freighter could carry both passengers and freight, including cars, and it was used for air ferry services across the English Channel and other short distances. The Bristol Freighter was also exported to several military and civil operators around the world, and it had a long and versatile service life of nearly 60 years. The Bristol Freighter was developed from the Bristol Bombay, a pre-war bomber transport, and it had a high wing with two Bristol Hercules radial engines. The first prototype flew on 2 December 1945, and a passenger-only version called the Wayfarer followed in April 1946.
Bristol Freighter blev produceret i flere varianter med forskellige motormodeller, vingefang, skroglængder og nyttelastkapacitet. De mest almindelige versioner var Mk 31 Freighter, som kunne transportere 44 passagerer eller 16 passagerer og 5.000 lb gods, og Mk 32 Superfreighter, som havde en længere næse og kunne transportere tre biler og 20 passagerer. Bristol Freighter blev hovedsageligt brugt af Silver City Airways, et britisk flyselskab, der drev færgeflyvninger mellem England og Frankrig, Belgien, Tyskland og Kanaløerne. Silver City Airways transporterede over to millioner passagerer og en halv million biler på sine Bristol Freighters mellem 1948 og 1962. Bristol Freighter blev også brugt af andre flyselskaber, såsom British United Air Ferries, SAFE Air, Trans Australia Airlines og Aer Lingus. Bristol Freighter blev også taget i brug af flere luftvåben, såsom dem i Argentina, Australien, Burma, Canada, New Zealand og Pakistan. Bristol Freighter var et robust og pålideligt fly, der kunne operere fra uforberedte landingsbaner og transportere en række forskellige laster. Det var også et af de første fly, der tilbød bilfærgetjenester, som blev populære i Europa efter krigen. Bristol Freighter blev taget ud af tjeneste i 2004, da det sidste overlevende eksemplar fløj til et museum i Canada.