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-Siddeley Trident - Hawker-Siddeley Trident The Trident, model DH121 or HS121, was a short/medium-range airliner designed by de Havilland in the 1950s, and built by the Hawker-Siddeley Group in the 1960s when de Havilland was merged, along with several other British aviation firms. Designed specifically to a British European Airways requirement, it had limited appeal to other airlines and sold only in small numbers. Nevertheless it was an important airliner in Europe but high operational costs doomed it to a short lifespan. British Airways chose to upgrade their fleet with the Boeing 737, and the Trident left service in the 1980s. Trident 1F Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Models 3 Specifications History In July 1956 BEA offered a contract for a new medium-haul aircraft to replace their.
De Havilland - famous de Havilland aircraft - the Mosquito, constructed primarily of wood because of the shortage of aluminium during the war. After the Second World War de Havilland continued with leading edge designs in both the military and civil field, but several public disasters doomed the company as an independent entity. The most famous of these were the loss of several Comet jetliners. Less well known, but equally disastrous, was the explosion of the Sea Vixen prototype during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow, which killed many members of the public. De Havillands was was bought by Hawker Siddeley, before ultimately being incorporated into British Aerospace. In this period many designs started by de Havilland came to fruition including the Trident, HS-146 (later BAe-146), HS-125, (later BAe-125). de Havilland Dove De Havilland Aircraft: Biplanes.
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.
Jewish principles of faith - 10th centuries CE) compared all extant variations to create a definitive text. Also, there are a number of places in the Torah where gaps are seen - and they are prepared to accept that part of the story in these places may have been edited out. In general, Orthodox Jews view the Written and Oral Torah as the same as Moses taught, for all practical purposes. Due to advances in scientific biblical scholarship, and archeological and linguistic research, most non-Orthodox Jews reject this principle. Instead, they may accept that the core of the Oral and Written Torah comes from Moses, but maintain that the written Torah that we have today has been edited together from several documents. Conservative Jews tend to believe that much of the Oral law is divinely inspired,.
Temple of Set - whose name likely has the ultimate meaning of "Initiation," causes change in the Universe by the simple fact of his Being. In seeking self-change and betterment, each member puts into motion those changes in the world that are Set's Work in the world of mankind. A Setian's bond with Set is one of self-interest. As a religion Setians believe in Set and work with Set, but do so more as if he were a father, elder brother, or close friend, rather than a god as defined by most religions. (Whether they call him a god or not depends upon their individual views and definitions of just what a "god" is.) The Temple of Set does not require religious belief of its junior members. The philosophy of Xeper and the process of.
August 2003 - elimination of restrictions on industrial emissions of the controversial gas. Climate scientists 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..
Avro Canada - they were purchased by A.V. Roe they were about mid-way through their TR.4 design, which was renamed the Chinook. The company would eventually be renamed in honour of their later TR.5 design, known as the Orenda. Need for a newer and much more powerful interceptor was clear even before the CF-100 entered service, and a number of design studies on swept-wing versions started as early as 1952. A switch to the even more "modern" delta wing was studied as the CF-103, and this led directly to the larger CF-105 Avro Arrow. By this time, A.V. Roe Canada also held a number of other large divisions, include Canadian Car & Foundry (1957) and Canadian Steel Improvement. However, the company was still primarily an aviation firm, and the cancellation of the Arrow in.
Avro 748 - 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 Aerolineas Argentinas. By this point Avro had been merged into the Hawker-Siddeley Group and the design was known as the HS-748. The Series 2 entered production in 1961 with a higher take-off weight, and were produced to 198 examples, making it one of the most popular post-war British designs. The more powerful Series 2A followed for another 71, along with another 25 Series 2Cs. The RAF.
Blackheath, West Midlands - district of Rowley Regis. Before 1841 Bleak Heath or Blake Heath was a small group of farm houses and inns on the turnpike road from Oldbury to Halesowen, within Rowley Regis. The changes brought about by the industrial revolution led to a Private Act in June that year that allowed the sale of the Rowley Regis glebe lands in order to finance the building of a new vicarage. The land was purchased by developers who, throughout the remainder of the 19th century, expanded Blackheath as a dormitory town for the surrounding industries, in particular, the coal mine at Coombes Wood and the Hailstone quarry. Workers migrated to Blackheath from across England and particuarly from Wales until the town and its neighbours grew to form the existing conurbation with nearby Birmingham. The.
British Aircraft Corporation - 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 supersonic transport, which was eventually merged with similar efforts.
Bristol 223 - investigate the creation of a supersonic transport. By the early 1960s it was clear that despite their best efforts, the United Kingdom had lost supremacy in the airliner market to the United States. In March 1959 STAC recommended that the UK should build two supersonic designs, a long range 150 seat aircraft to cruise at Mach 2 for the London to New York route, and a shorter range aircraft to cruise at Mach 1.2 for use in Europe. Higher speeds up to Mach 3 had been considered and found to be possible, but it appeared that a practical upper limit was Mach 2.2, above this speed the duralumin used for most aircraft construction would start to go soft due to the heat of friction, and some new material would have to.
Crop circle - groomed layers, rather than random crushings. Not long after WWII, aerial archaeological surveys were made over large areas of Britain. They photographed ripening crops to reveal crop marks, the differential ripening of the crop revealing differences in the subsoil caused by the buried remnants of ancient buildings. Though many previously unsuspected archaeological sites were found, no crop circles were ever recorded, which would tend to cast doubt on the natural forces hypothesis—unless some temporal change has happened as is seen with volcanoes and ice ages. A decade after the phenomena began, two men announced that many crop circles were a hoax of their doing. Doug Bower and Dave Chorley argued that they had been making crop circles since 1978 using planks, rope, hats and wire as their only tools. Doug and.
Sexual morality - refers to the beliefs and practices by which a culture, group, faith, etc. regulates their members' behaviour in matter of sexual activities. Many cultures and religions have a sexual morality that they would like to apply even to non adherents; sometimes force has been used in spreading concepts of morality. These rules sometimes distinguish between sexual activities that are practiced for biological reproduction (sometimes allowed only when in formal marital status and in fertile age) and other activities practiced for the pleasure of sex only (or mainly). In this sense, a concept of sexual morality can be expressed in any of the possible directions, and groups exist that recommend restrictive behaviours as well as groups that recommend totally free self-determination, as well as a variety of intermediate positions. The respective efficacy.
Phelsuma - Digue day gecko) Phelsuma sundbergi longinsulae (Mahé day gecko) Phelsuma trilineata Phelsuma v-nigra Phelsuma v-nigra pasteuri (Pasteur's day gecko) Phelsuma v-nigra v-nigra Phelsuma v-nigra anjouanensis Phelsuma v-nigra comoraegrandensis (Grand Comoro day gecko) Explanation of the Latin names of Phelsuma species abbotti: after Mr. W.L. Abbott agalagae: from Agalega (island) andamanensis: from the Andaman Islands angularis: angular anjouanensis: from Anjouan (island) astovei: from Astove (island) astriata: without stripes (in comparison to Phelsuma lineata lineata barbouri: after Mr. Barbour befotankensis: from Befotaka bimaculata: with two blotches, spots boehmei: after Mr. Wolfgang Böhme bombetokensis: from Bombetoka (bay) borbonica: from Bourbon (island, now called Réunion) breviceps: short headed cepediana: after Mr. La cepède checkei: after Mr. Athony. S. Checke chloroscelis: with (leaf)green thighs comoraegrandensis: from Grande Comoros (island) comorensis: from the Comoros (island group) dorsivittata:.
List of British companies - 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 East India Company British Leyland Motor Corporation British Motor Corporation British Motor Holdings British Thomson-Houston Company (BTH) BSA Daimler Dowlais Iron Company English Electric Great Western Railway Hawker Siddeley Company Lanchester Leyland Motors (commercial vehicles) London, Midland and Scottish Railway Metropolitan Vickers MG Morris Motor Company.
Temple Mount - Muslims identify that site with the rock of the Kaaba in Mecca. Muslim beliefs The Quran contains a curious anonymous sentence that has opened the door to much Muslim speculation on its meaning. It states "Subhana allathee israa' bi-abdeehee laylan min al-masjidul-haraam ila al-masjidul-aqsa", "Most glorified is the one who carried his servant during the night, from the inviolable place of prostration to the farthest place of prostration." This verse is mysterious because it does not say who this servant is, where he left from, where he travelled to, or what its meaning is supposed to be. One of the first historical articles on the lack of context in this sentence was written by A. Bevan, Mohammed's Ascension to Heaven, in "Studien zu Semitischen Philologie und Religionsgeschichte Julius Wellhausen," (Topelman, 1914,pp..
Maimonides - Morocco after the fall of Córdoba to the Almohads. After that he lived in Palestine and Egypt, where he was the doctor of Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt. His main works are: The Commentary on the Mishna, The Guide of the Perplexed, and The Mishneh Torah, a comprehensive code of Jewish law. Most of Maimonides' works were written in Arabic. However the Mishnah Torah was written in Hebrew. Maimonides was one of the few medieval Jewish philosophers who also influenced the non-Jewish world. Even today he is among the most respected of all Jewish philosophers. A popular saying in the Middle Ages stated that From Moses [of the Torah] to Moses [Maimonides] there has not been such a Moses. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Resurrection of the dead and the afterlife.
Manon Lescaut - to have sprung entirely from the imagination, or perhaps the sympathetic observation, of the wandering scholar who drew her. Only the Princesse de Clèves can challenge comparison with her before or near to her own date, and in Manon Lescaut the plot is much more complete and interesting, the sentiments less artificial, and the whole story nearer to actual life than in Madame de la Fayette's masterpiece. extract from 1911 encyclopaedia An opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. was based on Prévost’s Manon Lescaut. It was first produced in Milan in 1893. Plot Place, Amiens, Paris, Havre, New Orleans. Time, the eighteenth century. ACT I. Before an inn. Crowd strolling about; men drinking and gaming. Students waiting for the girls to come from work. (Madrigal, Edmund: "Hail! lovely night," with.
MAGAV - Hebrew מג"ב ) is an acronymous for Mishmar Ha-Gvul ( מישמר הגבול ), which in Hebrew means "Frontier Guard". MAGAV is the combat branch of the Israeli Police and its composed from professional officers on payroll and field policemen redirected from the IDF (men at the age of 18 can choose to serve in MAGAV instead of the IDF, serving 3 years as a MAGAV policeman is equal to serve 3 years as an IDF soldier). All MAGAV policemen receive combat training and in addition are also trained for CT (counter-terror), crowd control and policework. Excellent policemen can specialize in some profession and receive special training to become snipers, buggie-drivers, dog operators, bomb squad etc. Because of their combat training, MAGAV are employed in unquiet areas, where there are greater risks.
