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	The Pioneers : An Anthology : Harry George Hawker (1889 - 1921)
		Hawker believed that in England he would soon learn to fly and the young man of scarcely 22 years of age left his native shores hoping of success in the new sphere and perhaps at the same time wondering if he was doing the right thing.
		Hawker was met by friends soon after the `Maloja' had berthed and was taken to the St Kilda Town Hall, where he was greeted by the Mayor of St Kilda and citizens and councillors from St Kilda, Brighton and Moorabbin.
		Hawker was forced to land only a few miles short of the finish line and for his efforts was awarded a 'special prize' of 1000 pounds by the newspaper.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/hawker.html (8301 words)

	Hawker-Siddeley Harrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The P.1127 was renamed Kestrel after Hawker Siddeley Aviation was created.
		The RAF version of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier also saw combat during the Falklands War.
		By the time the Harrier next saw combat, all the RAF Hawker Siddeley machines had been exchanged for the upgraded McDonnell Douglas derived Harrier II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Harrier (928 words)

	Ontario Securities Commission: Rules & Regulation: Orders & Rulings - In the Matter of Hawker Siddeley Canada Inc. - MRRS Decision Document - CVMO:
		Hawker was incorporated by letters patent under the laws of Canada on September 1, 1945 and was continued under the Canada Business Corporations Act (the "CBCA") on July 1, 1980.
		Hawker is a reporting issuer or its equivalent in each of the Jurisdictions.
		The authorized capital of Hawker consists of an unlimited number of common shares (the "Common Shares"), of which 8,091,479 Common Shares are issued and outstanding.
	www.osc.gov.on.ca /Regulation/Orders/2002/ord_20020111_2116_hawker.jsp (486 words)

	Hawker
		Hawker Siddeley then marketed the Series 4, which featured numerous minor refinements, as the Series 400A and 400B and 116 were built.
		A British aviation success, the Hawker Siddeley HS-125 is a first generation business jet, and continues today under the Raytheon name.
		The HAWKER 800 was introduced in 1983, with improvements like better nosecone, windscreen, leading edge and a greater wingspan.
	www.waiparts.com /hawker1.htm (257 words)

	V/STOL Aircraft Hawker Siddeley Airliner
		Hawker Siddeley’s decade of study on V/STOL led to the conception of the HS 141 in 1970.
		Convinced that the future of airline travel is V/STOL, Hawker Siddeley undertook a program to develop a revolutionary aircraft to set the standard for the future.
		HS took great pains to address the noise problem and, at the time of the HS 141, was pursuing funding to develop the RB.202 quiet fan lift engine.
	www.aiaa.org /tc/vstol/unbuilt/h-s (167 words)

	Hawker Siddeley, one of the largest and best-known
		Hawker Siddeley, one of the largest and best-known companies in British aviation, got its start through a bankruptcy.
		In addition, Hawker Siddeley formed a partnership with America's firm of McDonnell Douglas.
		Hawker Siddeley took over the big firm of De Havilland Aircraft in 1960.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Hawker/Aero51a.htm (1427 words)

	Hawker-Siddeley - TheBestLinks.com - Aircraft, Great Depression, Hawker Harrier, Nationalization, ...
		After the war Hawker Siddeley produced one of the outstanding post war jet aircraft the Hawker Hunter, which set a world speed record of 728mph in 1953.
		Hawker Siddeley had its roots in the aftermath of the First World War following restructuring/bankruptcy of Sopwith Aviation.
		Hawker and de Havilland merged in 1959, followed by Blackburn Aircraft, Avro (along with Avro Canada) and Whitworth (already part of Hawker),Folland and Gloster over the next year, forming the Hawker-Siddeley Group.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Hawker.html (553 words)

	Armstrong Siddeley
		The very week the war in Europe ended, Armstrong Siddeley announced their first postwar models: the Lancaster four-door saloon and the Hurricane drophead coupé, echoing the names of aircraft built by the Hawker Siddeley Group (as it had become in 1935) during the war.
		Armstrong Siddeley's rather staid image was endorsed during the 1930s by a range of six-cylinder cars with ohv engines though a four cylinder 12hp was produced up until 1936.
		A reminder that Armstrong Siddeley was one of, the country's largest manufacturers of aeroengines came in 1933 when the 5 litre six-cylinder Siddeley Special was announced with Hiduminium aluminium alloy engine.
	vea.qc.ca /vea/marques1/armstrong.htm (327 words)

	Hawker/Hawker Siddeley
		In 1977, Hawker Siddeley, along with the British Aircraft Corporation and Scottish Aviation were nationalized and merged into British Aerospace.
		Hawker was killed in an aircraft accident in 1921 but his name survived.
		Harry Hawker got his start in the aviation industry with the Sopwith Aviation Company which he joined as a mechanic in 1912.
	www.shanaberger.com /hawker.htm (150 words)

	CTV.ca - Hawker Siddeley Canada sold for $5.8 million - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Hawker Siddeley's workforce has fallen from 3,000 to two full-time and three part-time employees, and its assets now amount to its name and about $10 million in cash, somewhat offset by liabilities, as well as pension fund surpluses and a workers compensation premium refund.
		Hawker Siddeley - selling assets since 1995 during which time it has distributed $16.50 per share to stockholders - began with a Canadian unit of British aircraft interests as A.V. Roe, maker of the Avro Arrow.
		TORONTO - Hawker Siddeley Canada Inc., once one of the most prominent enterprises on the Canadian industrial landscape, is to be sold for about $5.8 million.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1027388559111_22797759?hub=CTVNewsAt11&subhub=PrintStory (269 words)

	Hawker Siddeley
		Hawker Siddeley Switchgear Australia Pty Ltd (HSSA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley Switchgear Limited a World renowned Medium Voltage Switchgear company based in the United Kingdom.
		Hawker Siddeley Switchgear Australia (HSSA) has been operating in Australia since 1964 and has developed extensive experience in the field of Medium Voltage (3.3KV to 38KV) Switchgear.
		Hawker Siddeley can trace its history back to 1888 when Charles Francis Brush established the Brush Electrical Engineering company in Loughborough.
	www.hssaustralia.com /about_us.htm (285 words)

	Hawker Siddeley Switchgear - Customer Services Department - Site Services
		Hawker Siddeley Switchgear operate throughout the world and offer a comprehensive service including routine maintenance, repair, installation and modification, followed by pre-commissioning, test and final commissioning as required.
		Hawker Siddeley Switchgear Site Service Division, as part of a major Original Equipment Manufacturer have the full support of the Production and design elements of the factory as well as the Spares Department, Drawing Office and Contracts Engineers.
		Hawker Siddeley Switchgear will undertake upgrades, modifications and extensions to existing installations and fully engineer this work in every aspect if required.
	www.fkiswitchgear.com /site (275 words)

	de Havilland, Hawker de Havilland - History
		Two years later it was purchased by Armstrong Siddeley and amalgamated with Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft to form the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company.
		In 1935, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft was merged with its sister company, Hawker Siddeley Aircraft.
		In 1985, Hawker de Havilland Ltd in Australia acquired the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation and shortly thereafter, in July 1986, the name was changed to Hawker de Havilland Victoria Limited.
	www.boeing.com /global/Australia/History/hdh.html (983 words)

	History of the Hawker Siddeley Trident
		Hawker Siddeley responded first with the 1E variant, primarily for the export market and the 2E for BEA, featuring uprated engines, larger wing span, improved high lift devices (slats) and great capacity and range.
		The Tridents were built at the de Havilland site at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, becoming a Hawker Siddeley Aviation site when the individual company names were dropped in 1963 and subsequently a British Aerospace site during the nationalisation of the British aircraft industry in 1978 and consequent merger of HSA with the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).
		The aircraft performed well and was reliable but BEA soon realised that they had made a mistake with the specification and that their original plan for the larger aircraft was the one that should have been carried through.
	www.shockcone.co.uk /trident/history.htm (804 words)

	Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2B airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		Designed by Blackburn Aircraft (later Hawker Siddeley Aviation) to a naval requirement for a carrier-based, low-level maritime strike aircraft, the Buccaneer S1 entered service with the Fleet Air Arm in 1962.
		Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer S2B airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		Although the Buccaneer was seen in 1969 as an interim type pending the development of the Panavia Tornado, the last examples were not retired until March 1994.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /hawker-siddeley-buccaneer-s2b.htm (211 words)

	Business Wire: Hawker Siddeley Canada Inc. announces that it has called for redemption of shares
		Hawker Siddeley Canada Inc. is a Canadian public company the shares of which are listed on the Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver stock exchanges.
		Hawker Siddeley confirmed that an annual and special meeting of shareholders in scheduled for Aug. 15, 1996.
		Hawker Siddeley Canada Inc. announces that it has called for redemption of shares
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1996_July_10/ai_18489906 (232 words)

	Hawker Hunter
		Hawker Hunter, by Claudio Cáceres and Jorge Nuñez Padín.
		Our beloved Hawker Hunter filled a whole period of our Air Force's history and will be fondly remembered by every one of its pilots, ground crews and anyone that had the good fortune of watching it fly.
		The Hawker Hunter was for a long time the main combat force of the FACH.
	www.fach-extraoficial.com /ingles/hunter.htm (1407 words)

	Hawker-Siddeley
		Hawker Siddeley had its roots in the aftermath of the First World War following restructuring/bankruptcy of Sopwith Aviation.
		Hawker and de Havilland merged in 1959, followed by Blackburn Aircraft, Avro (along with Avro Canada) and Whitworth (already part of Hawker), Folland and Gloster over the next year, forming the Hawker-Siddeley Group.
		Renamed in 1933 to Hawker Aviation, Hawker took advantage of the Great Depression and its strong financial position to purchase a series of British aviation companies including Gloster Aircraft, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Armstrong Siddeley Motors, and A.V. Roe.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/h/a/Hawker-Siddeley.html (1407 words)

	Hawker-Siddeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hawker and de Havilland merged in 1959, followed by Blackburn Aircraft, Avro (along with Avro Canada) and Whitworth (already part of Hawker), Folland and Gloster over the next year, forming the Hawker-Siddeley Group.
		Hawker Siddeley group designs in the Hawker-Siddeley stable included the Gloster Meteor, the first Allied jet fighter.
		In 1991, the Hawker Siddeley Group Public Limited Company was acquired by BTR Aerospace Group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hawker-Siddeley (844 words)

	Hawker Siddeley HS121 Trident History
		Although the Trident lost out to the 727 throughout the world, one major coup for Hawker Siddeley was the 35 aircraft sold to CAAC of China.
		In 1960, de Havilland became part of Hawker Siddeley, in the Government forced mergers which also saw the creation of BAC.
		In its later years with BA the Trident was hugely succesful as the airlines domestic workhorse, flying the ‘shuttle’ routes, linking the UK airports.
	www.dmflightsim.co.uk /hs121_trident_history.htm (802 words)

	main.cfm?FuseAction=ExperienceDetail&tid=0&id=96&language=english&company=hssl
		A contract was placed by GPU Power UK (originally Midlands Electricity plc) for Hawker Siddeley Atkins to carry out a full design and build project for the rationalisation of an existing 132/33kV substation at Wolverhampton in order to establish a new 132/33/11kV bulk supply point.
		The Hawker Siddeley Switchgear and WS Atkins consortium - Hawker Siddeley Atkins - brings together over a century of design, engineering and manufacturing excellence.
		Bringing two world class companies together, Hawker Siddeley Atkins provided a total solution to the satisfaction of GPU, fully meeting their expectations of full project capability.
	www.fki-eng.com /main.cfm?FuseAction=ExperienceDetail&tid=0&id=96&language=english&company=hssl (463 words)

	Hawker Siddeley Andover E3A airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		Hawker Siddeley Andover E3A airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		The Andover was developed from the Avro 748 airliner to meet the requirement for Short Take-off and Landing (STOL) transport aircraft to operate in the trooping, paratrooping, airdropping, freighting and casevac roles.
		The first Andover flew in July 1965 and a total of 31 were built.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /hawker-siddeley-andover-e3a.htm (137 words)

	Airliners.net: Hawker Siddeley HS-748
		Hawker Siddeley, where the 748 was known as the HS-748, was merged into British Aerospace and from January 1 1978 the Hawker Siddeley name disappeared.
		Surfacing as the Avro 748 in 1958, the project became part of the Hawker Siddeley group when it formed in 1959 with the merger of several British aviation companies, including Armstrong Whitworth, Avro, Blackburn, De Havilland, Folland, Gloster, and Hawker.
		Incorporating the improvements of the 2B, it also featured a modernised flightdeck, improved efficiency and hushkitted Dart engines, and new galley and internal fittings.
	www.airliners.net /info/stats.main?id=57 (765 words)

	Hawker Harrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hawker Harrier was an experimental biplane torpedo bomber aircraft built to a specification issued in the 1920s.
		It was a two seater powered by a Bristol Jupiter VIII armed with one Vickers machine gun and one Lewis gun carrying either one torpedo or a maximum of 1,000 lb (~500 kg) of bombs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hawker_Harrier (98 words)

	Hawker-Siddeley Hawk - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It entered RAF service in April 1976, replacing the Gnat and Hawker Hunter in the advanced training and weapons training roles respectively.
		The Hawk has excellent manoeuvrability, and while it is not capable of supersonic speed in level flight, it can attain Mach 1.2 in a dive, allowing trainees to experience transsonic handling without the cost of a supersonic trainer.
		The Hawk 200 is a single seat, lightweight multirole combat fighter with emphasis on air defence, air superiority, anti-shipping, air-denial, long range interdiction, short range close air support, strike with smart weapons and a lead-in trainer for aircraft such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, F-15, F-16, Tornado, and Gripen to name a few.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hawker_Siddeley_Hawk (1687 words)

	Hawk: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The Hawker Siddeley Hawk is a fast jet trainer aircraft which is in service with several air forces around the world.
		Hawk is also a political term for persons who are said to be aggressive, favor military solutions to problems, and are unbending and unforgiving to their nation's enemies.
		For example, in North America, the buzzards (Buteo) are often called "hawks", and the Peregrine Falcon is still sometimes called a duck hawk.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ha/Hawk.html (342 words)

	Hawker Siddeley Trident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Hawker Siddeley Aviation, which had formed in 1960, started looking for additional customers for the Trident, and entered discussions with American Airlines in 1960.
		The Trident performed the first automatic blind landing in 1966, pioneering the ability to land in fog, something that had previously caused many problems at London Heathrow and resulted in thousands of cancellations and delays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hawker-Siddeley_Trident (342 words)

	Business Wire: Hawker Siddeley Canada invest $4 million in continuing development of Beacon Eye Institute
		The Board of Directors of Hawker Siddeley remains confident that Beacon has the potential to add significantly to shareholder value if the numbers of procedures performed in its laser centers increase as expected.
		Hawker Siddeley Canada invest $4 million in continuing development of Beacon Eye Institute
		In connection with the investment, HSC received 571,430 common shares of BeaconEye Inc. issued from treasury at a price of $7.00 per common share increasing HSC ownership in Beacon from 38.1% to 42.8%.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_March_20/ai_19231587 (314 words)

	Hawker Siddeley H4 Subway Car 5576-5663
		Again the TTC looked to Hawker Siddeley to build subway cars for the TTC subway.
		With the retirement of the aging Gloucester car fleet and the proposal to extend the Y-U-S (Yonge University Spadina) line, the TTC decided to replace some of the G Class cars with H4s.
		The H4 class was a little more different from the H1s and H2s.
	www.geocities.com /ttclfs1001/subway/h4.htm (177 words)

	Unreal Aircraft - Beating Gravity - Hawker Siddeley P.1127
		The Hawker Siddeley P.1127 research type developed directly into the world's first operational VTOL jet fighter.
		Unreal Aircraft- Beating Gravity - Hawker Siddeley P.1127
		Some support came from the USAF and NASA; though the engine would be inadequate for their own projections for a heavy strike fighter, they foresaw the potential benefits which might accrue to the US if the promising design succeeded.
	www.unrealaircraft.com /gravity/hs_p1127.php (448 words)

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