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Instead the company applied its name to marketing initiatives, the VC10 advertising carried the name "Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Limited, a member company of the British Aircraft Corporation". The first model to bear the BAC name was the BAC One-Eleven (BAC 1–11), a Hunting Aircraft study, in 1961. Given the numerous government contract ...
In 1959, Bristol was forced by Government policy to merge its aircraft interests with English Electric, Hunting Aircraft, and Vickers-Armstrongs to form the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Bristol formed a holding company which held a 20 per cent share of BAC, while English Electric and Vickers held 40 per cent each. [1]
The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 is a cancelled Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The British Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer based in Maidstone. It was founded by C H Lowe-Wylde and produced gliders and light aircraft during the 1930s. B.A.C. Ltd was registered as a Limited Company on 4 March 1931; directors were C H Lowe-Wylde, K Barcham Green and Mrs Sheila M Green. Around this time Lowe-Wylde was ...
On 25 November 1958 the P.1B XA847, piloted by Roland Beamont, reached Mach 2 for the first time [35] [36] in a British aircraft. [1] This made it the second Western European aircraft to reach Mach 2, the first one being the French Dassault Mirage III just over a month earlier on 24 October 1958. [37]
2 1 Florida Express: 16 6 Merged into Braniff Inc. in 1988 Germanair: 1 7 Became Bavaria Germanair in 1977 Gulf Aviation: 2 Gulf Air: 4 Hapag-Lloyd Flug: 7 Hold-Trade Air: 4 Kabo Air: 9 7 LACSA: 2 4 Ladeco [8] 2 2 Laker Airways: 5 1 LANICA: 1 2 1 Lauda Air: 2 Leased from TAROM: LIAT: 4 Leased from Court Line: London European Airways: 1 4 Ceased ...
During this period, he initiated the BAC One-Eleven (initially a Hunting Aircraft design). BAC was also a partner in the international projects for Concorde (for which he led the British team), Anglo-French SEPECAT Jaguar and the Panavia Tornado. [1] He was awarded the Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1959. He won the Air League Founders Medal in 1969.
The BAC Two-Eleven and BAC Three-Eleven were a pair of proposals for British airliners that were produced by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) during the late 1960s. The projects had emerged from design studies which had been aimed at competing first with the Boeing 727-200 and then with the proposed European Airbus .