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British Aerospace (BAe) was formed as a statutory corporation on 29th April 1977 as a result of the Aircraft and Shipbuilders Industries Act of the same year. The company brought together the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation.
The BAC 167 Strikemaster is a British jet-powered training and light attack aircraft. It was a development of the Hunting Jet Provost trainer, itself a jet engined version of the Percival Provost, which originally flew in 1950 with a radial piston engine.
Apr 5, 2017 · When the de Havilland Comet flew into the sky in 1949, it changed the way the world travelled. Richard Hollingham examines the legacy of a flawed but far-reaching design.
In early 1960 British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) was created through the amalgamation of Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. with English Electric Company and Bristol Aeroplane Company; shortly afterward BAC acquired a controlling interest in Hunting Aircraft Ltd.
Feb 13, 2024 · Throughout a 26-year production run, the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) would go on to produce 244 of the type, and an additional number were manufactured under license in Romania. Photo: Daniel Tanner | Wikimedia Commons.
May 9, 2024 · In September 1959, Hawker Siddeley approached Lockheed in the USA whilst following the creation of the British Aircraft Corporation in 1960, the Bristol Division immediately started talks with US giants Boeing, General Dynamics and Douglas Aircraft, as well as Sud Aviation in France.
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Aug 1, 2012 · In its short, seventeen-year, life, the British Aircraft Corporation built some of the most important aircraft and missiles of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond: its best-known products included the...
