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During 1963, Hawker Siddeley Group dropped the names of its component companies, rebranding its products under the Hawker Siddeley banner. To meet a requirement for a RAF flight inspection aircraft, nine Argosy C.1s were modified in 1971 as the Argosy E.1.
Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft ... known as Armstrong Whitworth Argosy until individual "brands" dropped in 1963 ...
Armstrong Whitworth AW.154 Argosy at Berlin, 1928 [10] An Argosy in 1928. The Argosy was initially used on European routes (later operating on services to South Africa), with individual aircraft being named after cities. [1] The first passenger flight was from London to Paris on 16 July 1926. Early on, Imperial Airways were keen to demonstrate ...
Hawker Siddeley 125: UK Jet Transport 1965 2015 Twin-engined jet monoplane British Aerospace 146: UK Jet Transport 1986 2022 [3] [4] Four-engined jet monoplane Short 184: UK Propeller Bomber 1918 1921 Single-engined biplane floatplane Short 320 [5] UK Propeller Torpedo bomber 1918 Single-engined biplane floatplane Avro 504K & N [6] UK Propeller
The component companies of Hawker Siddeley co-operated, but operated as individual entities. [ 4 ] In March 1936, the first Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber aircraft made its maiden flight and a total of 1,814 were produced for the RAF, ending in July 1943. [ 5 ]
By the mid-1960s, several European aircraft manufacturers had drawn up competitive designs, but were aware of the risks of such a project. For example, in 1959 Hawker Siddeley had advertised an "Airbus" version of the Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy, [8] which would "be able to lift as many as 126 passengers on ultra short routes at a direct operating cost of 2d. per seat mile".
The week that World War II ended in Europe, Armstrong Siddeley introduced its first post-war models; these were the Lancaster four-door saloon and the Hurricane drophead coupe. The names of these models echoed the names of aircraft produced by the Hawker Siddeley Group (the name adopted by the company in 1935) during the war. These cars all ...
The Armstrong Whitworth AW.681, also known as the Whitworth Gloster 681 or Hawker Siddeley HS.681, was a projected British long-range STOL military transport aircraft design of the early 1960s. Developed by manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft , it was intended to be capable of achieving both Short Takeoff and Landing (STOL) and Vertical ...