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Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer that was incorporated in 1934, although its origins in aircraft manufacturing began earlier in 1914 and lasted until 1961. The company mainly built and modified aircraft under contract to other manufacturers, but had a few notable designs of its own, such as the Defiant fighter and ...
The Boulton Paul Defiant is a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II.The Defiant was designed and built by Boulton Paul Aircraft as a "turret fighter" to meet the RAF requirement for day and night fighters that could concentrate their firepower on enemy bombers which were not expected to have fighter escorts due to the distance from Germany ...
Boulton & Paul Ltd was a British general manufacturer from Norwich, England that became involved in aircraft manufacture. Jeld Wen Inc. bought Boulton & Paul (along with another joinery company John Carr ) from the Rugby Group plc in 1999 to form its British subsidiary.
John Dudley North (1893–11 January 1968), CBE, HonFRAeS, MIMechE, was Chairman and Managing Director of Boulton Paul Aircraft. [1]Born at 18 Kinver Road North, Peak Hill, Sydenham, London [1] in 1893 and educated at Bedford School, North became Chief Engineer for Claude Graham-White of the Grahame-White Aviation Co. Ltd., before the onset of World War I.
In 1961, it acquired British aviation company Boulton Paul Aircraft, a former large scale manufacturer of aircraft, involved in the production of research aircraft as well as aviation subsystems such as powered control units, as well as other activities. [6] For a time, this part the business was known as Dowty Boulton Paul Ltd. [7]
A Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.I. similar to that used by No. 255 Squadron. The squadron re-formed on 23 November 1940 at RAF Kirton in Lindsey. It became operational as a night fighter unit on 5 January 1941, assigned to No.12 Group, but due to snow no flying took place until 8 January 1941. [12]
The Boulton & Paul P.15 Bolton was a one-off experimental twin-engined reconnaissance biplane ordered by the Air Ministry to sustain Boulton & Paul's development of steel-framed aircraft early in the 1920s. It was the RAF's first metal-framed aircraft.
Boulton & Paul was a Norwich general construction firm working in metal and wood. In 1915 they approached the government offering their services for production of war materiel. They gained a trial contract for 25 Royal Aircraft Factory FE.2b At the time, an Aircraft Acceptance Park for aircraft being produced in Norfolk was under construction ...