High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bristol Type 152 Beaufort was a British large twin-engined torpedo bomber designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company, and developed from the earlier Blenheim light bomber. Beauforts were most widely used, until the end of the Second World War, by the Royal Australian Air Force in the Pacific theatre. Most of these planes were manufactured under licence in Australia. Beauforts also saw service with the Royal Air Force's Coastal Command - including Commonwealth squadrons serving with the RAF - and then the Fleet Air Arm from 1940, until they were withdrawn in 1944. The Beaufort was not an entirely successful aircraft. Although designed as a torpedo-bomber it more often flew as a level-bomber. The Beaufort also flew more hours in training than on operational missions and more were lost through accidents and mechanical failures than were lost to enemy fire. However the Beaufort did spawn a long-range heavy fighter variant called the Beaufighter, which proved very successful and many Beaufort units eventually converted to the Beaufighter.

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