page_title: Blackburn B-54
section_title: Specifications (B-88)
hierarchical_section_title: Blackburn B-54 / Specifications (B-88)
caption_attribution_description: English: 2-view silhouette of the Blackburn B-88 (Y.B.1)
context_page_description: The Blackburn B-54 and B-88 were prototype carrier-borne anti-submarine warfare aircraft of the immediate post-Second World War era developed for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. They shared a conventional monoplane design with a mid-mounted inverted-gull wing and tricycle undercarriage. The pilot and observer sat in tandem under a long canopy atop the fuselage. The B-54 had a piston engine and the B-88 a gas turbine driving large contra-rotating propellers. The radar scanner was mounted in a retractable radome in the rear fuselage, behind a long internal weapons bay. The program was cancelled in favour of the Fairey Gannet aircraft.
context_section_description: Data from Blackburn Aircraft since 1909
  General characteristics
  Crew: 3
  Length: 42 ft 8 in (13.00 m)
  Wingspan: 44 ft 2 in (13.46 m)
  Height: 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m)
  Gross weight: 13,091 lb (5,938 kg)
  Powerplant: 1 × Armstrong Siddeley ASMD.1 Double Mamba coupled turboprop engine, 2,950 shp (2,200 kW)
  Propellers: 8-bladed contra-rotating constant speed, fully-feathering propeller
  Performance
  Maximum speed: 320 mph (510 km/h, 280 kn)
  Armament
  bombs or depth charges in internal weapons bay
caption: B-88 two-view
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