The Avro Heritage Museum is a museum located in Woodford, England, that is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Avro aircraft company. Avro was a British aerospace company that was best known for producing […]
The BAC Jet Provost (originally built by Hunting Percival) was a British jet-powered trainer aircraft used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1955 to 1993. Hunting Percival developed the Jet Provost from the piston-engined […]
The British Aircraft Corporation Tactical Strike/Reconnaissance 2 (TSR-2) was an ill-fated Cold War strike aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the early 1960s. The TSR-2 project ran […]
Vicker’s Viscount was the first turboprop airliner to fly a regular airline service, the prototype registered G-AHRF, first flew on 16 July 1948. Vickers by Chief Designer Rex Pierson broke the piston engines monopoly on […]
The British Aerospace Hawk started life as the Hawker-Siddeley P1182 which won the competition for a new advanced trainer for the RAF in 1971. The prototype flew in 1974. The British Aerospace Hawk is a […]
The BAe / MDC AV-8S Harrier was the worlds first useable fixed wing V-STOL and vertical take-off and landing aircraft. Became a success thanks to the powerful Rolls Royce Pegasus engine. The Harrier has proven […]
Aerospatiale joined with British Aerospace to create supersonic transport (SST) Concorde airliner, the first example of which flew on March 2, 1969. The development costs of the Concorde were so great that they could never […]
The One-Eleven was designed to replace the Vickers Viscount on short-range routes. It was the second short-haul jet airliner to enter service, the first being the French Sud Aviation Caravelle. Total production of the One-Eleven […]
The ‘Dove’ was an eight seated commuter developed in the 1940’s, it flew for the first time on September 25th 1945 and was produced into the 1960’s. Developing Nation: United Kingdom First Flight: September 25th […]
The Hawker Sea Hurricane was an adapted shore based Hurricane fighter bomber by the fitting of a V-framed arrester hook and catapult spools. Some 300 Hurricanes were assigned for refitting as Sea Hurricanes, the rest […]
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