The Museum's replica was one of three built for the film 'Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines'The Bristol Boxkite was developed in 1910 at the UK's first commercial airplane factory in Filton, Bristol. It was the first full production airplane; over 70 were made and sold worldwide The history of airplane manufacture continues in Bristol to this day, incorporating the stories of mass travel, the airbus and the white heat of technology, Concorde.
The Boxkite at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery is a replica, one of three built from the original drawings by Miles and Co for the 1964 film 'Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines', where it featured as the Phoenix Flyer. After filming, 20th Century Fox sold the aircraft to the British Aircraft Corporation at Filton, who presented the plane to Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery in 1965. It has hung in the front hall ever since.
Bristol Boxkite
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Bristol were not the first commercial aircraft factory in Britain: that honour goes to Short Bros. And in this country it's spelt 'aeroplane, please. 'the white heat of technology, Concorde.' is a horrible and meaningless sentence.