Talk:Burnelli UB-14

Scottish Aircraft and Engineering Company

The initial production of a version of the UB-14 in Britain was not to be undertaken by "Scottish Aviation" as quoted - It was by the entirely different "Scottish Aircraft and Engineering Company" a short lived enterprise, started in 1936, with the receivers called in to terminate the company on 26th of July 1937. "First of the Wide-Bodies?": A 4-page article by Peter London in the July-August 1995 (No 58) Edition of "Air Enthusiast" Magazine. ~2025-41199-55 (talk) 16:30, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Conflation of two separate incidents.

The paragraph "Burnelli applied to the CAA for approval to fly a transatlantic flight with Clyde Edward Pangborn as the pilot in September 1936, however it failed its airworthiness certification due to an excessively long takeoff run and poor quality control. Its performance was later tested at A&AEE Boscombe Down in 1939." Mixes up two separate events The original, US-built, UB-14 was refused permission to fly the Atlantic (it ended up being shipped over). - It was the later, British-bult Cunliffe-Owen OA-1 that was evaluated at A&AEE in 1939 (by which time the original UB-14 was already back in the USA, having been shipped back to the USA after its European demonstration tour). A&AEE was at Martlesham Heath when the OA-1 was first sent for testing, moving to Boscombe Down at the outbreak of war. - See "First of the Wide-Bodies?": A 4-page article by Peter London in the July-August 1995 (No 58) Edition of "Air Enthusiast" Magazine. Also see https://www.dingeraviation.net/cowing/cowing.html ~2025-41199-55 (talk) 16:39, 16 December 2025 (UTC)