{"id":1310286,"date":"2026-05-28T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=1310286"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:58:52","slug":"tarrant-tabor-giant-triplane-disaster-1919-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/tarrant-tabor-giant-triplane-disaster-1919-history\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Seconds: How the Tarrant Tabor Killed Itself On First Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<p>The plan was a knockout punch. Tarrant of Byfleet, Surrey \u2014 a firm of timber merchants \u2014 would build the largest aircraft in the world, fly it from England to Berlin, and bomb the Kaiser into submission. The aircraft would have three wings to spread the lift, six 450-horsepower Napier Lion engines arranged in tandem pairs, and a 131-foot wingspan that would carry it across continents.<\/p>\n<p>The Tarrant Tabor took off for the first time on 26 May 1919, exactly 107 years ago this week. Its first flight attempt ended within seconds of the throttles going forward. Both test pilots died of their injuries. The aircraft never flew again.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:16px 20px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:8px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:16px\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Designer:<\/strong> W. G. Tarrant Ltd, Byfleet, Surrey<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>First (and only) flight:<\/strong> 26 May 1919, RAF Farnborough<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Wingspan:<\/strong> 131 ft 3 in (40.0 m) \u2014 largest in the world at the time<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Wings:<\/strong> 3 (triplane)<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Engines:<\/strong> 6\u00d7 Napier Lion (2,700 hp total)<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Crew lost:<\/strong> Capt. F. G. Dunn (pilot), Capt. P. T. Rawlings (co-pilot)<\/p><p style=\"margin:6px 0\"><strong>Duration of first flight:<\/strong> seconds \u2014 the Tabor nosed over during its take-off roll<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A timber merchant&#8217;s bomber<\/h2>\n<p>W. G. Tarrant of Byfleet was, in 1918, a successful timber and building materials supplier. He was also a patriot, and the war was not yet won. Tarrant, whose firm had been subcontracted to build aircraft components during the war, assembled his own design team \u2014 led by Walter Barling \u2014 to create a strategic bomber that could carry the war to Berlin, a role for which the Handley Page V\/1500 had already been commissioned. The giant was assembled in a balloon shed at Farnborough.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft that emerged from Tarrant&#8217;s drawing office was an extraordinary thing. It had a 131-foot wingspan, three identical wings stacked vertically, and a fuselage that ran the full length of the middle wing. The empty weight was 24,750 pounds. The all-up weight was meant to be 44,672 pounds \u2014 and before the first flight, 1,000 pounds of lead ballast was added in the nose to correct the balance, against Tarrant&#8217;s wishes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1669379914  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/tarrant-tabor-six-engine-triplane-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Tarrant Tabor on the ground at Farnborough\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Tarrant Tabor on the ground at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, May 1919. The two high-mounted engines between the middle and upper wings became the proximate cause of the disaster. Photo: Wikimedia Commons \/ public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The engine arrangement was the killer. Of the six 450-hp Napier Lion engines, four were mounted in tandem push-pull pairs between the lower and middle wings. The other two were single tractor engines mounted in the gap between the middle and upper wings, well above the centreline of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">26 May 1919 \u2014 twelve seconds<\/h2>\n<p>Captain F. G. Dunn was a senior test pilot at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. His co-pilot, Captain P. T. Rawlings, was a decorated former naval bomber pilot. On the morning of 26 May 1919 they taxied the Tabor around the Farnborough landing field in a wide circle on its four lower engines \u2014 and, satisfied with its behaviour, attempted the first flight.<\/p>\n<p>Their procedure was to apply power gradually. The take-off roll began on the four lower engines. The aircraft accelerated, the tail came up, and the machine was intermittently lifting off its main wheels. Then the two upper engines were brought up to power. Their thrust line was far above the aircraft&#8217;s centre of gravity, and the nose-down pitching moment they produced exceeded what the elevators could counteract.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>Contemporary accounts describe the aircraft pitching forward and burying its nose in the ground, the propellers of the upper engines driving it over. All seven men aboard were injured. Rawlings died shortly after reaching hospital; Dunn died of his injuries two days later. The aircraft was beyond repair.<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Based on contemporary reports<\/strong> &mdash; The Times and Flight, May 1919<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What the Tabor taught aviation<\/h2>\n<p>Later analysis identified the cause: the thrust line of the upper engines was too far above the aircraft&#8217;s centre of gravity. The Tabor became a textbook case of thrust-line geometry \u2014 the relationship between an engine&#8217;s thrust vector and an aircraft&#8217;s centre of mass \u2014 and designers of later multi-engine aircraft took care to keep thrust lines as close to the centre of gravity as practicable.<\/p>\n<p>The Tabor itself was the end of a brief, glorious, mostly-doomed era of giant multi-engine biplanes and triplanes. The Caproni Ca.4, the Sikorsky Ilya Muromets, the Handley Page V\/1500 and the Tabor were all attempts to do strategic bombing before the technology really existed. None survived the 1920s. The next time strategic bombers flew from Britain against Germany, in 1939&ndash;40, they would be all-metal monoplanes \u2014 two decades and an entire era of aircraft construction later.<\/p>\n<p>Tarrant the firm closed its aviation division after the crash and went back to timber. The wreckage was carted off Farnborough in pieces. The Air Ministry quietly lost its appetite for giant wooden bombers. The Tabor remains, in 2026, one of the most spectacular single-flight disasters in aviation history \u2014 and the lesson it taught was absorbed so thoroughly that the mistake was rarely repeated.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: Royal Aircraft Establishment, Imperial War Museum, Air Ministry archives.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan was a knockout punch. Tarrant of Byfleet, Surrey \u2014 a firm of timber merchants \u2014 would build the largest aircraft in the world, fly it from England to Berlin, and bomb the Kaiser into submission. 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