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Armstrong and Whitworth
* Armstrong Whitworth, a British manufacturing company in the early 20th century
Larger STOVL designs were considered, the Armstrong Whitworth AW. 681 cargo aircraft was under development when cancelled in 1965.
In 1927, Vickers merged with the Tyneside based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth, founded by W. G. Armstrong, to become Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd. Armstrong Whitworth had developed along similar lines to Vickers, expanding into various military sectors and was notable for their artillery manufacture at Elswick and shipbuilding at a yard at High Walker on the River Tyne.
Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft was not absorbed by the new company.
Designs came from Handley Page, Vickers, Fairey, Armstrong Whitworth and Parnall with what was to be the final expressly military type, the unnamed type G. 4 / 31.
* Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle, a World War II transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong CB, FRS ( 26 November 1810 27 December 1900 ) was an effective Tyneside industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire.
In 1897 the company merged with the company of Armstrong ’ s old rival, Joseph Whitworth, and became Sir W. G.
Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd. Whitworth was by this time dead.
* Aircraft built for one role such as the Avro Anson or Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle but converted to other roles rarely changed their names.
* Armstrong Whitworth Apollo, a prototype airliner
* Armstrong Whitworth
The carronade disappeared from the Royal Navy from the 1850s after the development of steel-jacketed cannon by William George Armstrong and Joseph Whitworth.
Imperial Airways used the Handley Page HP42 / HP45 four-engined biplanes from Croydon, as well as the Armstrong Whitworth Atlanta, which was the first monoplane airliner used by the airline, intended for use on the African routes.
Larger four-engined monoplanes, Armstrong Whitworth Ensign series ( G-ADSR ) came into service that year.
The Empire routes had contained landplane sectors, but the Armstrong Whitworth Ensign and de Havilland Albatross ordered to replace the Handley Page HP. 42 ' Heracles ' biplanes had proved disappointing, leaving the Short Empire flying boats as the backbone of the wartime fleet.

Armstrong and Atlas
After time in China during 1927 the squadron re-equipped with the Armstrong Whitworth Atlas again on Army Co-operation work.
It replaced its elderly Bristol Fighters with new Armstrong Whitworth Atlas aircraft, which were purpose designed for the squadron's Army co-operation role, in October 1929, while these in turn were replaced by Hawker Audaxes in December 1931.
* Armstrong Whitworth Atlas
* Terence Armstrong, Fiziko-Geograficheskiy Atlas ", The Geographical Journal, Vol.
* Armstrong Whitworth Atlas ( 1925 )
* produced Armstrong Whitworth Atlas and Armstrong Whitworth Siskin fighters for Armstrong Whitworth

Armstrong and British
The British military adopted the Armstrong gun, and was impressed ; the Duke of Cambridge even declared that it " could do everything but speak.
The war went very badly, and when the British burned the capitol building on August 24, 1814, Madison removed John Armstrong as Secretary of War and turned to Monroe for help, appointing him Secretary of War on September 27.
* 1943 Richard Armstrong, British conductor
* 1970 Alexander Armstrong, British comedian, actor and TV presenter
* April 8 Tilly Armstrong ( alias Tania Langley and Kate Alexander ), British writer ( d. 2010 )
* Rollo Armstrong, member of British dance act Faithless
In 1854, during the Crimean War, Armstrong read about the difficulties the British Army experienced in manoeuvring its heavy field guns.
Armstrong surrendered the patent for the gun to the British government, rather than profit from its design.
In 1959 Bristol Aircraft merged with several major British aircraft companies to form the British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ), and Bristol Aero Engines merged with Armstrong Siddeley to form Bristol Siddeley.
The theory of British Israelism was also vigorously promoted by Herbert W. Armstrong in the 1950s founder and former Pastor General of the Worldwide Church of God.
The history of football in Ferrol is associated to the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and drydocks and the British technical advisors ,< ref >" SPANISH NAVY: Huge Contract in British Hands " ( 1909 ) The Manchester Guardian, 1st February 1909, Page 12: Manchester <<... Vickers, Armstrong and Brown ... it has been determined to put down a new shipyard at Ferrol in Spain ... Mr A J Campbell ... has been appointed manager of the Ferrol yard ... Mr Peter Muir ... has been appointed assistant manager.
When Atkinson arrived at Fort Armstrong on Rock Island on April 12, he learned that the British Band was in Illinois, and that most of the Meskwakis he wanted to arrest were now with the band.
This was rejected by the British army, who preferred the guns from Armstrong, but was used in the American Civil War.
While British designers had produced the ABC Dragonfly radial in 1917, they were unable to resolve the cooling problems, and it was not until the 1920s that the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Armstrong Siddeley produced reliable air-cooled radials such as the Bristol Jupiter and the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar.
In this book, Armstrong makes the claim that the peoples of the United States, the British Commonwealth nations, and the nations of Northwestern Europe are descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
* Armstrong adhered to a form of British Israelism which stated that the British, American and many European peoples were descended from the so-called Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, using this belief to state that biblical references to Israel, Jacob, etc., were in fact prophecies relating to the modern day, with literal application to the USA, Britain, and the British Commonwealth.
* British Israelism: Armstrong taught a form of British Israelism, which is the belief that those of Western European descent, notably England ( Ephraim ) and the United States ( Manasseh ), are direct descendants of the ancient northern Kingdom of Israel.

Armstrong and military
Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.
During his service in both world wars, Armstrong gave the U. S. military free use of his patents.
Schmitt is also the only geologist as well as the only person to have walked on the Moon who was never a member of the United States Armed Forces, although he is not the first civilian, since Neil Armstrong left military service prior to his landing in 1969.
Armstrong was able to rapidly put his ideas into practice, and the technique was rapidly adopted by the military.
The attacks on settlers and miners were met by military force conducted by army commanders such as Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
A member of the Signal Corps, Armstrong was building radio direction finding equipment to track German military signals at the then-very high frequencies of 500 to 3500 kHz.
In 1874, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led a military expedition from Fort Abraham Lincoln near Bismarck, to explore the Black Hills for gold and to determine a suitable location for a military fort in the Hills.
Former Scientologist Jon Atack argued, in A Piece of Blue Sky ( 1990 ), that treatment of Sea Org members in the RPF was a " careful imitation of techniques long-used by the military to obtain unquestioning obedience and immediate compliance to orders, or more simply to break men's spirits ..." One former member, Gerry Armstrong, said that during his time in the Sea Org in the 1970s he spent over two years banished to the RPF as a punishment:
Bristol Siddeley, which had itself resulted from the merger of Armstrong Siddeley and Bristol in 1959, and with its principal factory at Filton, near Bristol, had a strong base in military engines, including the Olympus, which was chosen for Concorde.
When the War of 1812 broke out, Armstrong was called to military service.
Vickers merged with the Tyneside-based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth, founded by W. G. Armstrong, to become Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd. Armstrong Whitworth and Vickers had developed along similar lines, expanding into various military sectors and produced a whole suite of military products.
Adelaide's origins date back to 1834 when a British officer named Captain Armstrong established a military encampment which he named Fort Adelaide after the wife of King William IV.
* Samuel C. Armstrong ( 1839 1893 )-Hawaiian-born military officer and educator

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