{"id":1310286,"date":"2026-05-28T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=1310286"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:01:17","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 lasted twelve seconds. Both test pilots were killed. 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> approximately 12 seconds<\/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 offered the Air Board his factory&#8217;s services to design and build a strategic bomber that could carry the war to Berlin. The Air Board, which had already commissioned the Handley Page V\/1500 for the same role, politely declined the design but accepted the offer to subcontract construction.<\/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 but the empty weight came in roughly 5,000 pounds heavier than designed.<\/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 four nose-mounted engines visible in this view 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, two were mounted on the lower wing in conventional tractor configuration. The other four were paired tractor-pusher on outriggers \u2014 two engines mounted on a single nacelle in the gap between the upper and middle 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 an experienced bomber pilot just back from France. They took the Tabor for its first taxi runs on 25 May 1919. The next day, they attempted the first flight.<\/p>\n<p>Their procedure was to apply power gradually. Dunn opened the throttles on the two lower-wing engines first to begin the take-off roll. The aircraft accelerated. With the tail still on the ground, he advanced the four upper-wing throttles to full power. The thrust line of those four engines was approximately twelve feet above the aircraft&#8217;s centre of gravity. 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>&ldquo;The aircraft pitched forwards onto the upper wing and the propellers of the upper engines drove themselves into the ground. The pilot and co-pilot were killed instantly. The aircraft itself was beyond repair.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Royal Aircraft Establishment<\/strong> &mdash; Accident report on the loss of the Tarrant Tabor, 26 May 1919<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What the Tabor taught aviation<\/h2>\n<p>The crash investigation, published in 1920, identified the cause unambiguously: the thrust line of the upper engines was too far above the aircraft&#8217;s centre of gravity. Modern thrust-axis analysis \u2014 the geometric relationship between an engine&#8217;s thrust vector and an aircraft&#8217;s centre of mass \u2014 became a standard part of aircraft certification largely because of the Tabor accident. Every multi-engine aircraft built afterwards was designed with thrust lines as close to the centre of gravity as possible.<\/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 a strategic bomber crossed the English Channel from Britain to Germany, it would be a B-17 from a USAAF base in 1942 \u2014 three decades, two wars, and an entire era of metal monoplane 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 British Aviation Board paid the families of the two dead pilots and quietly stopped commissioning aircraft from civilian timber merchants. The Tabor remains, in 2026, one of the most spectacular single-flight disasters in aviation history \u2014 and the lesson it taught was so important that no other aircraft was ever lost the same way.<\/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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