In 1919 Frank Barnwell took the flying surfaces from a Badger – a proposed development of the F2B fighter – and made up a cheap slab-sided fuselage for experimental work. The whole thing cost £250 to build and was known as the Badger X, (and unofficially as Barnwell’s weekender).
It became the first aircraft to appear on the UK civil register as G-EABU on 30 May, by which time Barnwell had turned it over on the golf course adjacent to the Filton airfield. He was left unharmed but angry, hanging from the straps, and he got even angrier when someone released his straps before getting hold of him, and he landed on his head!
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