Many thanks to Guy, Roy, Ernie, Nigel, Lukas, Martin and LM for your very nice comments.
It amazes me LM how many of these early machines got off the ground, this particular one did actually fly and was equiped with a very early "auto pilot" which apperently did work to some degree. The plane did crash and sustained damage but the pilot walked away unhurt, Blackburn decided not to repair the damaged aircraft but went on to develop more successful planes.
Des.