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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Saunders Roe
		The name was adopted in 1929 after Alliot Verdon Roe (see Avro) and John Lord took a controlling interest in the boat- and aircraft-builders S.E. Saunders.
		In the same year Saro was taken over by Westland who continued the Skeeter family with the Scout and Wasp, and in 1956 the hovercraft business merged with Vickers Supermarine to form the British Hovercraft Corporation.
		In 1928 at the age of 71 he sold the Company to the famous aviator and designer Alliot Verdon Rose and in 1929 the Company was renamed Saunders Roe Limited.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saunders_Roe (299 words)

	Aviation Worldwide: Saunders Roe
		It was his grandson Samuel Edgar Saunders, boring in 1857, who founded the Company.
		He built many beautiful river launches in various sites at Streatley and Goring until the accession of Edward VII when he decided to move to Cowes on the Isle of Wright.
		It is now a thriving business based on the old Saunders Roe premises, manufacturing high technology components for the world's aviation businesses.
	www.aviation-worldwide.com /products/4825.html (281 words)

	Free Saunders Roe Skeeter Picture
		Additional information about the Saunders Roe Skeeter Helicopter picture Graphic: This Saunders Roe Skeeter XL 809 was built in 1959 and is powered by a de Havilland Gipsy Major Type 140 piston engine, it caries a pilot and a passenger at a max speed of 105 mph
		Copyright-free-pictures.org.uk are the sole copyright holders of this Saunders Roe Skeeter Helicopter picture, unless otherwise stated.
		This Saunders Roe Skeeter Helicopter picture is not in the Public Domain.
	www.copyright-free-pictures.org.uk /helicopters/28-saunders-roe-skeeter.htm (183 words)

	Saunders-Roe at AllExperts
		The name was adopted in 1929 after Alliot Verdon Roe (see Avro) and John Lord took a controlling interest in the boat- and aircraft-builders S.E. Saunders.
		Saunders Roe, commonly abbreviated Saro, concentrated on producing flying-boats, but none were produced in very large quantities - the longest run being 31 Londons.
		In 1959 they demonstrated the first practical hovercraft, the Saunders- Roe SRN-1.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sa/saunders-roe.htm (316 words)

	Black Knight
		The contract for the vehicle was given to Saunders Roe, based at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, in the middle of 1955.
		Saunders Roe built a test site at High Down, the subject of another page.
		The original design was for a thin walled vehicle with external stringers for strength, but this was abandoned in favour of a thicker walled vehicle with no stringers.
	www.spaceuk.org /bk/bk.htm (384 words)

	SR53
		The Germans had had some considerable success with their rocket propelled interceptor, the Me163, even though it came into service very late in the war, and was, to put it politely, of idiosyncratic design.
		In the end, at the Tender Design Conference in July 1952, they chose the Saunders Roe design as being the most suitable.
		Sanders Roe put forward quite an ambitious programme for the craft, talking about airlaunching it, and using it with uprated motors, almost as an equivalent to the X-15.
	www.spaceuk.org /sr53/sr53_1.htm (1460 words)

	Sport Aviator - www.masportaviator.com
		It started as S E Saunders Limited but soon gained extra backing, and a new name, from Roe.
		The Saunders-Roe SR-53 was a delta-winged jet/rocket powered aircraft that also had a vertical tail – This aircraft existed as Saunders was still trying for military business.
		The SR-53 was a land aircraft that could reach over 1,300 mph, for short periods, using rocket power.
	www.masportaviator.com /ntp/saundersroe.asp (1372 words)

	News and Press
		Michael Saunders, Founder and President of the Sarasota, Florida based real estate company that bears her name, presided over the annual conference of Leading Real Estate Companies of the Worldâ”held recently at the Desert Springs J.W. Marriott...
		Michael Saunders and Company, a 30-year full service real estate brokerage for buying and selling new homes, condos, resales and commercial real estate properties in all price ranges, home mortgages, title insurance, and vacation resorts in the greater Sarasota, Florida.
		Michael Saunders and Company provides selling or buying of real estate luxury property and homes for sale with exceptional real estate professionals.
	www.michaelsaunders.com /AboutMichaelSaunders/NewsAndPress.aspx (993 words)

	British Rockets and Satellite Launchers.
		Tenders were submitted by Bristol, Fairey, Blackburn, A.V. Roe, and by Westland and Saunders Roe.
		For reasons of economy, the Ministry of Supply order was reduced from three prototypes each from Saunders Roe and Avro to two prototypes each.
		February Saunders Roe submitted a brochure to the Ministry of Supply proposing that a jet engine of similar thrust to that of the rocket be fitted to the aircraft being built to O.R.301.
	www.spaceuk.org /sr53/RocketInterceptorHistory.htm (1411 words)

	SP150
		Saunders Roe Design for a Liquid Hydrogen Third Stage
		In late 1960, RAE decided that the proposed HTP/kerosene third stage for Black Prince would not be able to put a communications satellite weighing 600lbs into a 5 000 nautical mile orbit.
		[NB this is not geosynchronous orbit.], and so Saunders Roe were asked to produce a study for a liquid hydrogen upper stage.
	www.spaceuk.org /hydrogen/SP510.htm (219 words)

	SR53
		There was also a follow on design, the SR 177.
		They both fell victim to the 1957 Defence White Paper, but Saunders Roe had plans to make the SR53 into another X-15!
		Saunders Roe also draw up a design for the ultimate interceptor, the F.155.T, or P187.
	www.spaceuk.org /sr53/sr53.htm (101 words)

	Saunders-Roe SR.53 - Definition, explanation
		This was circulated to the nation's aircraft manufacturers the following February.
		Of the seven companies that tendered designs, two were selected for development contracts, A.V. Roe with their Avro 720 and Saunders-Roe with their SR.53.
		The SR-53 itself was a sleek aircraft with a sharply pointed nose, delta-like wing, and a T-tail.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/sa/saunders_roe_sr_53.php (504 words)

	Amazon.com: "Saunders Roe": Key Phrase page
		that the names given to a project by the Ministry and by the firm can sometimes be different: thus the Saunders Roe SR53 is known in Ministry files as the F138D.
		Rick BricKert, ending the Pond Racer project Saunders Roe SARO SR-A/1 FF 1947 UK The War in the Pacific had illustrated,...
		The work of Sir Christopher Cockerel] resulted in the first successful full scale hovercraft to be built in Europe, the Saunders Roe SR.
	amazon.com /phrase/Saunders-Roe (313 words)

	Hovercraft of Saunders-Roe, Westland Aircraft, British Hovercraft Corporation
		Sam Saunders started work in the family boatbuilding business on the River Thames in the late 1870's.
		Always looking for innovations and willing to build 'what the customer wanted', S.E. Saunders formed an Aircraft Department in 1909 and was involved in early British aviation, especially in sea planes and flying boats.
		In 1929, the company SE Saunders was renamed 'Saunders-Roe' when A.V. Roe took a financial interest in the company.
	www.bartiesworld.co.uk /hovercraft/saunders.htm (1126 words)

	Rocket Interceptors and the SR53 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tenders were submitted by Bristol, Fairey, Blackburn, A.V. Roe, and by Westland and Saunders Roe.
		For reasons of economy, the Ministry of Supply order was reduced from three prototypes each from Saunders Roe and Avro to two prototypes each.
		February Saunders Roe submitted a brochure to the Ministry of Supply proposing that a jet engine of similar thrust to that of the rocket be fitted to the aircraft being built to O.R.301.
	members.aol.com /nicholashl/ukspace/sr53/RocketInterceptorHistory.htm (1411 words)

	Rocket Interceptors and the SR53 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Germans had had some considerable success with their rocket propelled interceptor, the Me163, even though it came into service very late in the war, and was, to put it politely, of idiosyncratic design.
		Sanders Roe put forward quite an ambitious programme for the craft, talking about airlaunching it, and using it with uprated motors, almost as an equivalent to the X-15.
		Indeed, Saunders Roe at one stage were talking of it in terms of doing research for re entry studies for a manned satellite, and for this, the SR53 with its aluminium airframe, would definitely have been unsuitable.
	members.aol.com /nicholashl/ukspace/sr53/sr53.htm (3010 words)

	Saunders-Roe Skeeter AOP 12 airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		The Skeeter was developed from a 1948 design by the Cierva company.
		Several development aircraft were built for military and civilian use from 1948 but it was only after the company had been taken over by Saunders Roe (Saro) in 1951 that the major Skeeter developments took place.
		The definitive military version was the AOP12 and deliveries began in June 1958.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /saunders-roe-skeeter-aop-12.htm (212 words)

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