Handley Page Aircraft Company - Handley Page Aircraft Company The Handley Page Aircraft Company was founded by Frederick Handley Page in 1909. It was the United Kingdom's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing company. The company filed for bankruptcy and ceased to exist in 1970. The company was noted for producing heavy bombers and large airliners. During the First World War the company produced a series of bomber for the Royal Navy to bomb the German Zeppelin yards, with the ultimate intent of bombing Berlin in revenge for the Zeppelin attacks on London. These aircraft included the 0/100, the 0/400 and the four engined V/1500 with the range to reach Berlin. The V/1500 only just reached operational service as the war ended in 1918. In the immediate post-war years, Handley Page modified.
List of aircraft manufacturers - List of aircraft manufacturers A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aircraft manufacturers (in alphabetic order) (years of operation in parenthesis) A Aermacchi (1913-present) Aero Commander Aerocar Aeronca Aerospatiale (1970-1999) Aerospatiale-Matra (1999-present) Aero Vodochody Agusta Airbus Airco Airspeed (1930-1950?) Alon American Aviation Antonov Arado Armstrong-Whitworth ATR (from 1981 on) Auster (1939-1961) AviaBellanca (1983-present) Aviat Aviation Traders Avro Avro Canada (1945-1962) B Bachem BAE SYSTEMS BAMC Bayerische Flugzeugwerke Beagle Beechcraft Bell (1935-1960) Bell Helicopter (1960-present) Bellanca (1927-1983) Beriev (1934-present) Blackburn Blèriot Blohm und Voss Boeing (1916-) Bölkow Bombardier Aerospace Boulton Paul Brantly Breguet (1911-1973) Brewster (1932-1942) Bristol Aeroplane Company British Aerospace (1977-1999) British Aircraft Corporation Britten-Norman Bücker Burgess (1911-1916).
List of aircraft - List of aircraft This page contains a very long flat list of aircraft types, roughly categorised. As it grows, it will become a less than useful index, and if it isn't complete, that's also less than useful... so, in an attempt to provide some better indexing, try one of these alternatives: List of aircraft types list of aircraft by date and usage category list of aircraft by date and manufacturer list of aircraft by date and distinctive features list of aircraft by date and country of origin List of military aircraft of the United States of America List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS List of aircraft of the WW2 Luftwaffe List of aircraft of the Israeli Air Force List of aircraft of.
Vickers Valiant - four-piston-engined bombers for massed raids, and remained committed to this policy in the immediate postwar period, adopting the Avro Lincoln, an updated version of the WW2 Lancaster, as their standard bomber. The development of jet aircraft and nuclear weapons soon made this policy obsolete. The future appeared to belong to jet bombers that could fly at high altitude and speed, without defensive armament, to perform a nuclear strike on a target. After considering various specifications for such an advanced jet bomber in late 1946, in January 1947 the British Air Ministry issued an request for an advanced jet bomber that would be at least the equal of anything the US or the USSR had. The request went to most of England's major aircraft manufacturers. While the Short Brothers submitted a design.
Imperial Airways - was an early British commercial air transport company, running from 1924 to 1939. Created following the advice of the government Hambling Committee in 1923 - that the main existing aircraft companies should be merged to create a company which would be strong enough to develop Britain's external air services - and offered a £1m subsidy over ten years if they merged. Imperial Airways Limited was formed in March 1924 from the British Marine Air Navigation Company Ltd (three aircraft), the Daimler Airway (five aircraft), Handley-Page Transport Ltd (three aircraft) and the Instone Air Line Ltd (two aircraft). The land operations were based at Croydon Airport. The first commercial flight was in April 1924, when a daily London-Paris service was opened. Additional services to other European destinations were started throughout the summer..
Harland and Wolff - decks with iron ones which increased the strength of the ships; and giving the hulls a flatter bottom and squarer section, which increased their capacity. Harland subsequently made Wolff, his assistant, a partner in the company. Wolff was the nephew of Gustavus Schwabe, a financier from Hamburg. Schwabe had heavily invested in the Bibby Line, and the first three ships that the newly incorporated shipyard built were for the that line. When Harland died in 1894, William James Pirrie became the chairman of the company until his death in 1924. It was during this period that the company built the RMS Titanic and her sister-ships RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic between 1909 and 1914. These were three of over 70 ships constructed for the White Star Line. In 1912, the company.
Falklands War - on March 19, 1982 by a group of patriotic Argentinian civilians. The Royal Navy's Antarctic patrol vessel HMS Endurance was ordered to remove the civilians on March 25, but was blocked by three Argentinian warships and wisely retreated. However on March 30 despite the further evidence of the Argentinian navy loading troops in Puerto Belgrano the UK Joint Intelligence Committee's Latin American group stated that "invasion was not imminent". Failed diplomacy From the time of the breaking of formal diplomatic relations, el Peru represented Argentine diplomatic interests in the UK and Switzerland represented UK interests in Argentina. Argentine diplomats in London were credentialed as Peruvian diplomats of Argentine nationality and the UK diplomats in Buenos Aires were credentialed as Swiss diplomats of British nationality. Despite this civility, and although Peru and.
Avro - Avro Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer, well known for planes such as the Avro Lancaster which served in World War II. Avro 504K. One of the world's first aircraft builders, A.V.Roe and Company was established at Brownsfield Mills, Manchester, England by Alliot Verdon Roe and his brother H.V.Roe on 1st January 1910. Alliot had already made a name for himself as a pilot at Brooklands near Weybridge in Surrey and Farnborough in Hampshire, England. The company built the world's first totally enclosed monoplane in 1912 but it was the well-proportioned, wooden biplane known as the Avro 504 that kept the firm busy throughout the First World War and beyond. Production totalled 8,304 at several factories: Hamble, Failsworth, Miles Platting and Newton Heath and continued for almost twenty years..
Bristol Jupiter - The Jupiter was a 9 cylinder one-row radial aircraft engine designed during WWI by Roy Fedden of Cosmos Engineering. During the rapid downscaling of military spending after the war, Cosmos went bankrupt in 1920, and was eventually purchased by Bristol Aeroplane Company on the strengths of the Jupiter design. Over a number of years the engine matured into one of the most reliable on the market, and although production started as early as 1918, it didn't stop until 1930. The Jupiter was fairly standard in design, but feature four valves per cylinder, which was uncommon at the time. The cylinders were machined from steel forgings, and the cast heads were later replaced with aluminium alloy following studies by the RAE. In 1927 they changed to a forged head due to the.
Bristol Hercules - Hercules was a 14-cylinder two-row radial aircraft engine produced by the Bristol Engine Company starting in 1939. It was the first of their sleeve valve designs to see widespread use, powering many aircraft in the mid-World War II time frame. Bristol had introduced their first sleeve valve designs in as the 750 horsepower class Perseus and the 500hp class Aquila, which they intended to supply throughout the 1930s. Aircraft development in the era was so fast that both of these engines quickly ended up at the low-power end of the military market, and in order to deliver larger engines, Bristol developed 14-cylinder versions of both. The Perseus evolved into the Hercules, and the Aquila into the Taurus. The first Hercules engines were available in 1939 with the 1,290hp Hercules I, soon.
Bristol 223 - the late 1950s and early 1960s the Bristol Aeroplane Company studied a number of supersonic transport models as part of a large British inter-company effort funded by the government. These models eventually culminated in the Type 223, a transatlantic transport for about 100 passengers at a speed around Mach 2. At about the same time Sud Aviation in France was developing the similar Super-Caravelle design, so in November 1962 the efforts were merged to create the Concorde project. During the 1950s the British lead in aircraft design was continually eroded by a series of technical and commercial disasters. The technically daunting Bristol Brabazon met all of its demanding performance requirements, but proved to be a commercial failure when customers felt the transatlantic market wasn't big enough to justify such a large.
Scottish Aviation - England, 2003. Scottish Aviation was a British aircraft manufacturer, based at Prestwick in Scotland. It built robust military STOL utility aircraft such as the Pioneer and larger Twin Pioneer. Much later the company built some Jetstream turboprop transport and navigational training aircraft following the collapse of the Handley Page Aircraft Company (which designed the type). It built Bulldog trainers after the demise of their original manufacturer, Beagle Aircraft Company, which Scottish Aviation absorbed in 1970. The company merged into British Aerospace in 1977..
Shorts Stirling - in the 2,000 horsepower class in order to improve performance. Meanwhile the US and USSR were developing bombers with four smaller engines instead, which proved to have excellent range and fair lifting capacity. So in 1936 the RAF decided to try their hand at the four engine bomber as well. It wasn't entirely clear what they wanted in an aircraft, and the resulting Specification B.12/36 was an odd mix of features. In addition to a 14,000lb bombload carried to a range of 3,000 miles (increadibly demanding for the era), the aircraft should also be able to be used as a troop transport for 100 soldiers. The idea was that it would fly troops to far corners of the British Empire, and then support them with bombing. To help with this task.
Short Brothers - referred to simply as Shorts, is a British aerospace company currently located in Belfast. Shorts was the first true aviation company in the world, and were a major World War II manufacturer of flying boats. After they war they turned primarily to cargo aircraft, and were purchased by Bombardier in 1989. Oswald, Horace and Eustace Short What would eventually become Shorts was formed in 1897 when Eustace and Oswald Short took their first flight in a coal gas filled balloon. In 1902 they started offering balloons for sale, winning a contract for three for the Indian Army in 1905. In 1908 they were joined by a third brother, Horace, and incorporated in order to sell licensed copies of the Wright Flyer. They set up shop in Leysdown-on-Sea on the Isle of.
Royal Jordanian - routes, to Kuwait City, Beirut and Cairo. Since Jordan is a very small country, the airline has had to basically rely mostly on international services since its start. Two Handley Page Dart Heralds and a DC-7 were used. 1964 saw another DC-7 arrive and service to Jeddah inaugurated. In 1965, Alia touched down in Europe for the first time, with Rome added to the route system. All the progress the airline made was threatened by the Israeli air raid during the 1967 war when the DC-7's were destroyed. These planes were replaced by two Fokker F27 planes. 1968 saw expansion to Nicosia, Benghazi, Dhahran and Doha, the latter in Qatar. 1969 saw further expansion into Europe and other parts of Asia, including Munich, Tehran and Istanbul. The 1970s loomed and Alia.
Parnall - development of a range of types but none was built in quantity by that firm. Had inventiveness and design quality had anything to do with it, Parnall aircraft would probably have achieved much more. Parnall Elf displaying at a Shuttleworth Pageant (England) in September 2002. Parnall and Sons of Mivart Street, Eastville, Bristol was a wood-working firm of note in the period before the First World War WWI. The demands of war brought many new arrivals into the world of aircraft production and the company received large orders from the Admiralty for aircraft designed elsewhere, principally Avro 504's and Short 827's. The quality of workmanship and enthusiasm for the new product was soon apparent and it brought an enquiry in 1916 for a design of their own to meet a requirement.
Handley-Page Victor - Handley-Page Victor The Handley Page Victor was a British jet bomber aircraft, one of the 'V bombers' intended to carry Britain's nuclear arsenal. The other two V-bombers were the Avro Vulcan and the Vickers Valiant. After being phased out of bomber service with the Royal Air Force, the Victor saw extensive use as a tanker aircraft. It was finally withdrawn from service in 1993, having lasted nine years longer in service than any of the other V bombers, albeit not in its original role..
List of aircraft by date and usage category - List of aircraft by date and usage category Aircraft listed by date and usage Usage 1903-1919 1920-1938 1939-1945 1946-1969 1970-present Civil air transport de Havilland DH-86 Dragon Douglas DC-3 Douglas DC-4 Handley-Page W.8 Handley-Page Hannibal Junkers Ju 52 Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador BAC 1-11 One-Eleven BAC/AerospatialeConcorde Boeing 707 Boeing 727 Boeing 737 Boeing 747 Boeing 2707 Bristol Britannia de Havilland DH-106 Comet de Havilland DH-121 Trident de Havilland Dove de Havilland Heron Douglas DC-6 Douglas DC-8 Douglas DC-9 Douglas DC-10 Handley-Page HPR-7 Herald Kawasaki Ki-56 Lockheed L-1049 Constellation Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Saunders-Roe Princess Tupolev Tu-104 Tupolev Tu-144 Tupolev Tu-154 Vickers VC-10 Vickers Vanguard Vickers Viscount Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR-42 Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR-72 Airbus Industrie Airbus A300 Airbus A310 Airbus A318 Airbus A319 Airbus A320 Airbus A321 Airbus A330 Airbus A340 Airbus.
John Leech - but gradually the true bent of the youth's mind asserted itself, and he drifted into the artistic profession. He was eighteen when his first designs were published, a quarto of four pages, entitled Etchings and Sketchings by A. Pen, Esq., comic character studies from the London streets. Then he drew some political lithographs, did rough sketches for Bell's Life, produced an exceedingly popular parody on Mulready's postal envelope, and, on the death of Seymour, applied unsuccessfully to illustrate the Pickwick Papers. In 1840 Leech began his contributions to the magazines with a series of etchings in Bentley's Miscellany, where Cruikshank had published his splendid plates to Jack Sheppard and Oliver Twist, and was illustrating Guy Fawkes in sadly feebler fashion. In company with the elder master Leech designed for the Ingoldsby.
Johnson - President of the United States Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete Bill Johnson, musician Boris Johnson, British journalist Clarence L. Johnson, aircraft engineer Earvin "Magic" Johnson, basketball star George and Louis Johnson, musicians Jack Johnson, boxer J. J. Johnson, musician Lisa M. King-Johnson, terrorist victim Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States Mead Johnson, founder of the nutrition products company Philip Johnson, architect Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice President of the United States Robert Johnson, blues singer Samuel Johnson, English literate There is also a disease named Stevens Johnson syndrome. In addition, there is the Johnson Act and the Johnson County War. This is a disambiguation page. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link..
