Dassault Mirage III - 10 SOURCES Early development The Mirage III family grew out of French government studies begun in 1952 that led in early 1953 to a specification for a lightweight all-weather interceptor, capable of climbing to 18 kilometres in six minutes, with speed in level flight of Mach 1.3. Dassault's response to the specification was the "Mystere-Delta 550", a sporty-looking little jet that was to be powered by twin Armstrong Siddeley MD30R Viper afterburning turbojets, each with 9.61 kN (980 kg / 2,160 lb) thrust. Additional burst power was to be provided by a 14.7 kN (1,500 kg / 3,300 lb) thrust SEPR liquid-fuel rocket motor. The wing was a delta configuration, with a 5% chord (ratio of airfoil thickness to length) and 60 degree sweep. The delta wing has a number of.
Hawker Siddeley Harrier - Hawker Siddeley Harrier The Harrier is a successful close-support and reconnaissance fighter aircraft with V/STOL capabilities, currently built by BAE SYSTEMS and Boeing (under license). Royal Air Force Harrier GR-7 The Harrier family was started with the Hawker P.1127. Design began in 1957 by Sir Sidney Camm, Ralph Hooper of Hawker Aviation and Stanley Hooker of the Bristol Engine Company. Rather than using rotors or a direct jet thrust the P.1127 had a innovative vectored thrust turbofan engine and the first vertical take-off was on October 21, 1960. Design continued after Hawker Siddeley Aviation was created with the Kestrel, which first flew on March 7, 1964. The Kestrel was a evaluation aircraft offered to military test pilots from Britain, the US and West Germany (the Tri-partite.
Hawker Siddeley Aviation - Hawker Siddeley Aviation Hawker Siddeley Aviation is a subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley Company. The company was absorbed by British Aerospace in 1977..
Hawker Siddeley Dynamics - Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Hawker Siddeley Dynamics is a division of Hawker Siddeley Company. Absorbed by British Aerospace in 1977..
Hawker-Siddeley - Hawker-Siddeley Hawker-Siddeley was a British aircraft manufacturing company. The company went through a long evolution before emerging as one of only two major manufacturers in the 1960s,and eventually being merged into British Aerospace in the 1980s. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Hawker Engineering 2 Hawker Aviation 3 Hawker-Siddeley Group 4 End of Hawker 5 External Links Hawker Engineering Hawker Siddley has its roots in the aftermath of the First World War, when after the bankruptcy of Sopwith Aviation, the Sopwith test pilot Harry Hawker, with financial backing, bought the assets of Sopwith and formed H.G. Hawker Engineering. Between the wars Hawker produced a successful line of bombers and fighters for the Royal Air Force. These included the Hart and the Hind. Hawker Aviation Renamed in 1933.
Hawker Pacific Aerospace - Hawker Pacific Aerospace Hawker Pacific Aerospace is a multinational aircraft parts and repair company based in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. The company is a descendant of the Hawker Siddeley Company. It was formed in 1980 within British Aerospace, and merged with Dunlop Aviation Inc in 1994. External Links http://www.hawker.com/ -- Hawker Pacific Aerospace.
Geoffrey de Havilland - Factory as it realised the importance of planes and shifted some attention away from balloons. Employed during World War I by Airco, he designed many planes used by the Royal Flying Corps during that period. After the war, de Havilland bought Airco, renaming it De Havilland Aircraft Company. One of his roles was as test pilot for the company's aircraft, in all of which he liked to fly. The company's planes, particularly the Mosquito played a formidable role in World War II, and de Havilland was knighted in 1944. He controlled the company until it merged into the Hawker Siddeley Company after disastrous problems killed passengers aboard its cutting-edge Comet jet airliner in the mid 1950's. Two of de Havilland's three sons died as test pilots in de Havilland aircraft..
De Havilland - De Havilland De Havilland Aircraft Company was founded in 1920 by Geoffrey de Havilland, who renamed the company, Airco, at which he had previously been chief designer, and which he now controlled. The de Havilland company was based at Hatfield, in Hertfordshire, England. Initially the company concentrated on single and two seat biplanes, essentially continuing the DH line of aircraft built by Airco, but engined with de Havillands own engines, the Gypsy line of engines. These include the Gypsy and Tiger Moths. These aircraft set many aviation records in their time, many piloted by de Havilland himself. Amy Johnson flew solo from England to Australia in a Gypsy Moth in 1930, the flight taking 19.5 days. de Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth The Moth line of aircraft contiued with the.
April 1 - Hawaii). 1948 - Cold War: Berlin Airlift - Military forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin. 1949 - Newfoundland joins Canada 1949 - Chinese Civil War: Communist Party of China held peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting. More than six thousand pro-communist students were protesting in Nanjing and some were killed. The talk was not successful. 1954 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. 1960 - The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1. 1967 - The United States Department of Transportation begins operation. 1969 - The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF. 1970 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health.
August 2003 - have debated carbon dioxide's role in global warming for over a decade, with most voices (though notably fewer within the US) calling it the biggest factor, while others call it negligible. [1] Occupation of Iraq: Americann and Iraqi officials are discussing the possibility of forming a large Iraqi militia or paramilitary force to help improve security in the country. [1] Terrorist: Terrorism group Jemaah Islamiyah has schemes, revealed in a 40-page manifesto (the Pupji book or General Guide to the Struggle of Jemaah Islamiyah), for a suicide bombing campaign designed to change Asia and the Pacific region into Islamic provinces. Jemaah Islamiyah is also shown to be a well-formed organization with a constitution, rules of operation, and leadership structure. [1] Afghanistan: Soldiers are killed in a remote region (near the town.
Avro - 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. This was a substantial achievement considering the novelty of powered aircraft in this period. In the 1920s the Company left Alexandra.
Avro Canada - Aircraft Canada was a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, known for their innovative designs, including the famed Avro Arrow fighter. A.V. Roe Canada was set up in 1945 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the UK-based Avro. Avro Aircraft, their first (and at the time, only) division, started operations in the former Victory Aircraft factories in Malton (now embedded in a much larger Toronto). During WWII, Victory had been one of a number of shadow factories set up in Canada to produce British designs in safety. Victory had built 3,197 Ansons, 430 Lancasters, 6 Lincolns and a single York. With wartime construction ended, Avro turned to the repair and servicing of a number of WWII-era aircraft, including Sea Furies, B-25s and (of course) Lancasters. However, they also started looking for new designs to.
Avro 748 - Avro decided to re-enter the civilian market. The Viscount had the large end of the short-haul market neatly wrapped up, so Avro decided to design to a smaller feederliner design to replace the many DC-3's that were now reaching the end of their lifespan. Avro was not the only company to see the potential for a DC-3 replacement, and by this point the Fokker F27 Friendship was well advanced. Avro decided to compete by producing a design with better short-field performance, allowing it to operate from smaller airports. The first aircraft flew from Avro's Woodford plant on June 24th, 1960, and two prototypes quickly proved the type's short field performance. Eighteen 748 Series 1 aircraft were produced, the first for British Skyways Coach-Air (later known as Dan-Air) but the majority for.
Blackburn Aircraft Ltd - total of 47 were built. A British aircraft manufacturer. Founded 1914, as Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company. Built new factory at Brough, Yorkshire in 1916. Became Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. in 1939. Amalgamated with General Aircraft Ltd in 1949. Absorbed by Hawker Siddeley Company in 1960. See Also: Aircraft.
British Aerospace - British aircraft manufacturer, now part of BAE SYSTEMS. The company was formed on April 29, 1977 from British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation. In 1979, joined the Airbus consortium. On November 30, 1999, merged with Marconi Electronic Systems to form BAE SYSTEMS. See also: Aircraft Hawker Siddeley Company.
British Aircraft Corporation - a British aircraft manufacturer, formed from the forced merger of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, English Electric, Vickers-Armstrong and Hunting in 1959. Meanwhile a similar merger created the Hawker-Siddeley Group, while engine design and manufacturing was concentrated at Rolls-Royce and the newly formed Bristol-Siddeley Engines, and helicopters at Westland Helicopters. Most of the BAC designs were taken over from the individual companies that formed it. English Electric's latest design would become the ill-fated TSR-2 supersonic strike aircraft. After successfully flying prototype aircraft, political pressure forced development to cease and the remaining airframes and most supporting equipment and documentation be destroyed. Hunting's design for a short-range airliner continued as well, becoming the BAC 1-11, which sold fairly well into the 1970s. Bristol had escewed the subsonic airliner market and was working on the.
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.
Thomas Sopwith - early as 1910 as well as a celebrated yachtsman who made an America's Cup challenge. Sopwith Aviation Company was the company he founded that produced key British World War I aircraft. Bankrupted after the war by the punitive anti-profiteering taxes, he re-entered the business a few years later with a new firm named after his chief engineer, H.G. Hawker. Sopwith was chairman of the new firm and was knighted in 1953. After the nationalization of what was by then Hawker Siddeley, he continued to work as a consultant as late as 1980. His 100th birthday was marked by a flypast of military aircraft over his home. His authorized biography is Pure Luck by Alan Bramson, with a foreword by the Prince of Wales (ISBN 1852602635)..
Sidney Camm - was an English aeronautical engineer and designer of the Hawker Hurricane fighter. In 1926 Camm was appointed Chief Designer of the Hawker Siddeley Company and remained in that post for the rest of his life. Camm was knighted in 1953. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
List of British companies - PLC (Anglo-Swedish) BAE SYSTEMS (merger of Marconi Electronic Systems and British Aerospace) BP (Amoco) Barclays Bank BOC (formerly Brin Oxygen Company, British Oxygen Company) British Airways British Rail Cameron Balloons Civil_Aviation_Authority Easyjet GKN plc GlaxoSmithKline Go Fly Limited HSBC ICI Jardine Matheson J Sainsbury (formally J Sainsbury and Son) Kangol Laura Ashley Lloyds TSB plc Marconi plc (formerly The General Electric Company plc) Marks and Spencer plc MG Rover Group Orange Railtrack Rolls Royce Royal Bank of Scotland Save a Cup Recycling Company Shell Oil (Anglo-Dutch) Tate & Lyle Tesco Triumph Motor Company Unilever (Anglo-Dutch) Vestey Group Virgin Atlantic Airways Vodafone W H Smith (formally W H Smith and Son) Woolworths Xrefer Former companies, including acquired and merged ones Acorn, Ltd, acquired by Olivetti AEI Austin Blue Star Line British Aerospace.
