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	British Aircraft Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Aircraft Corporation, or BAC, was a British aircraft manufacturer, formed from the forced merger of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, English Electric (aircraft), Vickers-Armstrong and Hunting Aircraft in 1959.
		On April 29, 1977 The British Aircraft Corporation, the Hawker Siddeley Group and Scottish Aviation were nationalised and merged under the provisions of Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act.
		This new group was established as a statutory corporation, British Aerospace (BAe).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Aircraft_Corporation (247 words)

	BAC 1-11 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The BAC 1-11, or One-Eleven, was a short-range jet airliner designed by Hunting Aircraft and produced by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) after Hunting was merged with several other British aviation firms in 1960.
		BAC was concerned the aircraft was too large to fit the Viscount role in the original Hunting configuration, and therefore re-designed it to a smaller 80-seat fuselage, known as the Model 200, the originally retroactively becoming the 100.
		Unfortunately this aircraft crashed killing all on board on October 22, and an investigation into the cause led to the discovery of the conditions leading to deep stall, when the airflow over the wing "blanks" the tail, meaning the aircraft loses pitch control.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/BAC-111 (1281 words)

	British Aerospace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The company was formed as a statutory corporation on April 29, 1977 as a result the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act.
		In accordance with the provisions of the British Aerospace Act 1980 the statutory corporation was changed to a plc, British Aerospace Public Limited Company, on January 1 1981.
		The company, initially called "New British Aerospace", was officially formed on November 30, 1999 and known as BAE Systems (most likely to make it seem less overtly "foreign" as it sought extensive US defense contracts and acquisitions).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Aerospace (954 words)

	British Aerospace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In accordance with the provisions of the the statutory corporation was changed to a plc, British Aerospace Public Limited Company, on January 1 1981.
		The British government sold its remaining shares in 1985, maintaining a £1 which allows it veto foreign control of the board or company.
		The company, initially called "New British Aerospace", was officially formed on November 30, 1999 and known as BAE Systems.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/British_Aerospace (946 words)

	ch13-4
		All the aircraft are equipped with turbofan engines of relatively low bypass ratio that are of about the same level of technical sophistication as the fan engines that powered the first - generation transports.
		The upper fuselage diameter of the aircraft is the....
		On each aircraft, the four engines are mounted at the aft end of the fuselage, two on either side, in a four-engine adaptation of the twin aft-engine configuration pioneered by the Caravelle.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-468/ch13-4.htm (2874 words)

	British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven 423ET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		First firm order for the BAC One-Eleven short-haul twin-jet transport was placed last week by British United Airways, the United Kingdom's largest independent airline...
		London: Fuselage and wing structure of the third BAC One-Eleven short-range jet transport prototype were damaged last week when the landing gear collapsed after a hard landing at BAC's Wisley airfield.
		BAC One-Eleven short-haul jet transport modified for stall tests landed with its gear retracted Aug. 20 near Boscombe Down, England.
	1000aircraftphotos.com /Transports/BAC111.htm (266 words)

	Concorde At Brooklands Museum : Aircraft
		The two production test aircraft (201 and 202) were different in many ways from their four predecessors, necessitating repeating certain work to obtain certification.
		British Airways were given access, through their support contract, to use the aircraft for certain parts that were not immediately available.
		As the aircraft was structuraly sound, British Airways investigated, in the early 90's, the possibility of refitting for airline service.
	www.concordesst.com /brooklands/aircraft.html (549 words)

	Unreal Aircraft - Weird Wings - BAC MUSTARD
		In a 1966 lecture to the Royal Aeronautical Society, Lord Caldecote, managing director (guided weapons) of British Aircraft Corporation, described a fully recoverable multi-stage aerospace vehicle which was believed capable of putting Western Europe into the space age within 10 to 15 years.
		BAC was, however, prepared to entertain a supersonic aircraft configuration for recovery.
		BAC favoured the cluster or stack, with three similar modules in the form of crewed, winged vehicles which would launch as a unit.
	www.unrealaircraft.com /wings/bac_mustard.php (352 words)

	Airline History - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By 1961 many of the smaller British aircraft companies had merged to form BAC - British Aircraft Corporation - and the Vickers-Armstrong company's legacy design, the model 198 was looked at and a smaller four-engined SST came from it - the BAC 223.
		It was a large aircraft at 318 feet from nose to tail and had a complex swing-wing design with a tailplane behind the main swing wing.
		The new aircraft - the Concorde - was to be a larger version of the Sud Aviation Super Caravelle and the BAC 223 (both were of indentical design).
	airlines.afriqonline.com /features/sst.htm (2117 words)

	BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION TSR.2 - HISTORY
		In the mean time the British Aircraft Corporation had been formed (on the 1st of January 1960); with the formation of Hawker-Siddeley a few years later much of the British aviation industry would be contained within one of two groups, BAC and Hawker-Siddeley.
		While the management of BAC were informed before the budget speech was made, they were forbidden to tell their employees, who then had to hear the news on the radio.
		BAC survived the TSR.2 cancellation; the only major project not cancelled was the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic transport, which while never being a massive commercial success, gave BAC valuable experience and prestige both with advanced aircraft and with international cooperation.
	www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk /tsr2/history.html (3533 words)

	BRITISH AEROSPACE FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft_manufacturer, now part of BAE_Systems.
		The company was formed as a statutory corporation on April_29, 1977 as a result the Aircraft_and_Shipbuilding_Industries_Act.
		In accordance with the provisions of the British_Aerospace_Act_1980 the statutory corporation was changed to a plc, British Aerospace Public Limited Company, on January_1 1981.
	www.amysflowershop.com /British_Aerospace (852 words)

	Mustard
		The British Aircraft Corporation "Multi-Unit Space Transport And Recovery Device" design of 1964-1965 was a winged two-stage-to-orbit reuseable space shuttle using the 'triamese' concept.
		BAC sought to reduce development cost by use of two boosters nearly identical to the orbiter vehicle.
		British Aircraft Corporation study of 1964-1965 for winged reuseable space shuttle using the 'triamese' concept - reduced costs by use of two boosters nearly identical to the orbiter vehicle.
	www.astronautix.com /lvs/mustard.htm (320 words)

	Aircraft
		- The first aircraft fatality occurred during a demonstration at Fort Myer in Arlington, VA. A propeller came loose on a plane piloted by Orville Wright and Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge of the U.S. Signal Corps; a passenger died of a skull fracture.
		The X-1 was lifted to an altitude of 25,000 feet by a B-29 aircraft and then released through the bomb bay, rocketing to 40,000 feet and exceeding 662 miles per hour (the sound barrier at that altitude).
		British Aerospace (Firm)--Management; Aerospace industries--Great Britain--Case studies; Corporate turnarounds--Great Britain--Case studies.
	www.kipnotes.com /Aircraft.htm (1876 words)

	CONCORDE SST : TIMELINE -60's
		The aircraft would need to be built using both the countries aircraft industries as the building of such an aircraft would be too expensive for Britain or France to fund alone.
		The building of this aircraft was entrusted to four companies, The British Aircraft Corporation (Britain) and Sud Aviation (France) were to be responsible for building the airframe, and the Olympus 593 jet engines would be manufactured by Bristol Siddeley (Britain) and SNECMA (France).
		During 1967 the design for the pre-production (01 and 02) aircraft was revised to reduce drag, a new nose and visor were designed and the rear fuselage was lengthened.
	www.concordesst.com /history/60s.html (1496 words)

	Concorde.y2u.co.uk - Concorde Aircraft - History & Photos
		The aircraft and parts were later sold to them for the nominal price of one British pound apiece.
		The aircraft were registered in both the United States and their home countries, for legal reasons: a sticker would cover up each aircraft's European registration while it was being operated by Braniff.
		The aircraft (G-BOAF) is over flying Filton airfield at two thousand feet to take a wide circle over the Bristol area before the final landing on the Filton (Bristol) runway from which she first flew in 1979.
	concorde.y2u.co.uk (3945 words)

	BAC 111 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1960 Hunting Aircraft became part of the British Aircraft Corporation, the proposed airliner became the BAC.107, being enlarged to emerge as the BAC.111.
		British Caledonian merged with British Airways on 1st April 1988, with G-AZMF remaining in service until December 1992 when the entire fleet was sold to Bournemouth based European Aviation.
		The BAC 1-11 has 10 rows of seats at the front of the aircraft and a large clear area in the rear of the fuselage.
	www.aviation-museum.co.uk /bac111.html (826 words)

	BAC StrikeMaster Ground Attack Aircraft
		After nearly 20 years of service the aircraft was among a batch of 6 which were sold to the Botswana Defence Force.
		This aircraft finally returned to the UK in 1997 and after a major reburbishment program has been displayed at over 200 airshows throughout Europe.
		With only 2,939 hours recorded in her log books and a fatigue Index currently at 27.84% this aircraft must be one of the lowest time Strikemasters in the world.
	www.strikemaster.co.uk (245 words)

	Royal Air Force Calgary
		The RAF operates three variants of the aircraft: the C1Ks are military transport aircraft, carrying 120 passengers or freight, and can be adapted for tanking with the addition of wing-mounted refuelling pods; the K3s and K4s are the ex-civil Super VC10s (the K2 variants were ex-civil VC10s but are no longer in service).
		Of the thirteen examples of the VC10 C1K, one was used by British Aerospace as a test bed and 12 were converted into the air-to-air refuelling capability, but maintained their passenger carrying role.
		These aircraft were designated the K2 and K3 respectively and were delivered in 1984 and 1985, able to carry up to 18 passengers.
	www.rafcalgary.org /VC10.htm (334 words)

	Vickers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It produced one of the first aircraft designed from the beginning to carry a machine gun, the Vickers Gunbus.
		It was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers, and went on to manufacture the piston-engined Viking and Varsity, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners, and the stylish though noisy VC-10 jet airliner.
		The plane-building parts of Vickers were absorbed into the British Aircraft Corporation during the production of that type.
	www.theezine.net /v/vickers.html (198 words)

	British Aerospace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In June 1993 the BAe Corporate Jets subsidiary was sold to Raytheon but BAe continues to make the wings and various fuselage sections for the BAe 125Hawker/ jet.
		Saudi Arabia is to upgrade and replace its 96 Tornado fighter aircraft at a cost of $5bn, reported the Middle East Economic Digest without citing a source.
		Crash protection experts from Coventry University are flying the British flag in a â¬4.8 million European Union project that could cut the number of helicopter accident fatalities.
	www.infothis.com /find/British_Aerospace (1004 words)

	British Aircraft Corporation TSR 2 airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		Although never developed beyond the prototype stage, the British Aircraft Corporation TSR2 was one of the most exciting and controversial British combat aircraft designs of the 1960s.
		During the mid 1950s, the increasing sophistication of air defence systems led the RAF to consider the procurement of a high speed, low level strike and reconnaissance aircraft to replace the English Electric Canberra.
		By 31 March 1965 XR219 had completed twenty-four flights, and a second, the aircraft you see here, was to join the programme.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /british-aircraft-corporation-tsr-2.htm (211 words)

	ipedia.com: British Aerospace Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The company was formed on April 29, 1977 from British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation.
		The British government sold its remaining shares in 1985, maintaining a £1 golden share (giving the government veto power over company policy.) On June 1 BAe delivered the first Panavia Tornado IDS to the Royal Air Force and of August 9 the first Tornado Air Defence Variant (ADV) rolls off the production line.
		In March 1994 the Rover Group was sold to BMW and the first of the Eurofighter development aircraft (DA) flies from Manching, Germany.
	www.ipedia.com /british_aerospace.html (777 words)

	History of the Concorde
		On November 5th of that year the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee (STAC) was founded to study the feasibility of building a supersonic airliner.
		The next year the British Concorde made a 45,000-mile sales tour of twelve countries and China indicated her intention to purchase two of them.
		British Airways responded that they would investigate the possibility of running the program for profit.
	ks.essortment.com /concordehistory_rwaa.htm (1083 words)

	Concorde
		British Airways has decided that such an investment cannot be justified in the face of falling revenue caused by a global downturn in demand for all forms of premium travel in the airline industry.
		Rod Eddington, British Airways·chief executive, said: "Concorde has served us well and we are extremely proud to have flown this marvellous and unique aircraft for the past 27 years.
		Thus, as an aircraft manufacturer, we understand completely and respect the decision of British Airways, especially in the present economic climate.
	www.travelcentre.com.au /travel/airshows/concorde.htm (657 words)

	Sud Aviation Super-Caravelle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Super-Caravelle was a design for a supersonic transport from Sud Aviation in France.
		Unlike most competing designs which envisioned larger trans-atlantic aircraft and led to the likes of the Boeing 2707, the Super-Caravelle was a much smaller, shorter range design intended to replace their earlier and very successful Caravelle.
		Design work started in 1960 and was announced in 1961 at the Paris Air Show, but was later merged with similar work at the British Aircraft Corporation (originally the Bristol 223) to create the Concorde project in November 1962.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Sud_Aviation_Super-Caravelle (326 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - Concorde History II
		As an aircraft transitions from subsonic to supersonic speeds, the point where the lift generated by the wing acts tends to move further back.
		Many aircraft are equipped with a device called a mach trim that is designed specifically for this purpose.
		Airlines are not interested in supersonic aircraft because of their high operating costs, but high-speed travel does appeal to "the rich and famous" or powerful executives who are not nearly as concerned about the bottom line.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/planes/q0199.shtml (2897 words)

	Aviation in Preston - Aircraft built in Preston
		Preston was chosen as the aircraft factory and an airfield at Samlesbury was built.
		80 aircraft a month were built at the peak during 1944.
		In 1977 British Aerospace was formed from the major aircraft companies in the UK; BAC, Hawker Siddeley and Bristol Aircraft.
	www.madeinpreston.co.uk /Aviation/aviation.html (728 words)

	British Aircraft Corporation Jet Provost airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		Later, to cope with training requirements at higher altitudes, a pressurised version, the T5, was produced.
		The first aircraft flew on 28 February 1967 and 110 of this variant were produced.
		One of these aircraft, XW323, was used by HRH Prince Charles during his pilot training and is displayed at the RAF Museum.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /british-aircraft-corporation-jet-provost.htm (233 words)

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