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Bristol and Blenheim
* 1935 – First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
* 1939 – World War II: a Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war and German ships are bombed.
Frank Barnwell went on to design aircraft including the Bristol Blenheim.
Notable aircraft produced by the company include the ' Boxkite ', the Bristol Fighter, the Bulldog, the Blenheim, the Beaufighter, and the Britannia, and much of the preliminary work which led to the Concorde was carried out by the company.
A few twin-engine light bomber designs were also successful when converted into heavy fighters or night fighters ; examples of these would be the Bristol Blenheim and Douglas A-20 Havoc.
During the Battle of Britain, Bristol Blenheim bombers were fitted, as an interim measure and in utmost secrecy, with radars and ventral gun packs, turning them into the RAF's first night fighters.
II ) was well on its way to becoming operational, and the Bristol Blenheim was increasingly available for fitting.
* Bristol Blenheim Mk IF
* 21 May-A Bristol Blenheim L9325 of No. 18 Squadron RAF was shot down by RAF Hurricane and crashed near Arras, France.
* 22 May-A Bristol Blenheim L9266 of No. 59 Squadron RAF was shot down by RAF Spitfire and crashed near Fricourt, France.
Folland began aircraft assembly at Hamble making parts for Bristol Blenheim and Beaufort bombers.
The Hurricanes had been escorting Bristol Blenheim bombers to bomb bridges in the Netherlands.
On 29 May, Galland claimed he had shot down a Bristol Blenheim over the sea.
Bristol Blenheim BL-129 of Finnish Air Force No. 44 Squadron, Finnish Air Force | LeLv 44
The most modern aircraft in the Finnish arsenal were the British-designed Bristol Blenheim bombers that had been license-built in Finland.
The smaller and shorter ranged Bristol Blenheim, the RAF's most-used bomber, was defended by only one hydraulically operated machine-gun turret, and whilst this appeared sufficient, it was soon revealed that the turret was a pathetic defence against squadrons of German fighter planes.
* Handley Page Hampden-British medium bomber, almost as fast as the Bristol Blenheim
Earlier, in March 1941, Hodgkin had flown on the test flight of a Bristol Blenheim fitted with the first airborne centimetric radar system.
The Bristol Blenheim, a typical light bomber of the opening stages of the war, had two engines with a total power of less than 2, 000 hp.
* Bristol Blenheim, a World War II-era light bomber used primarily by the Royal Air Force
110 Sqn arrived 15 days later initially with the Hind before switching to the Bristol Blenheim I.
The first aircraft movement at Coltishall was a Bristol Blenheim IV L7835 flown by Sergeant RG Bales and Sergeant Barnes.
A detachment of No. 219 Squadron RAF used the airfield between 4 October 1939 and 12 October 1940 when the main section of the squadron was at RAF Catterick flying the Bristol Blenheim IF.
RAF Brize Norton was opened in 1937 as a training base and one of the first squadrons to use the airfield was No. 110 Squadron RAF which was mainly based at RAF Wattisham but a detachment used Brize Norton from June 1939 until 17 March 1942 with the Bristol Blenheim Mks I and IV before leaving for the far-east.

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The battle itself has long been regarded as a key moment in the Saxon advance, since in reaching the Bristol Channel, the West Saxons divided the Britons west of the Severn from land communication with those in the peninsula to the south of the Channel.
However, poor performances at the road course of Watkins Glen, where he wrecked coming out of the chicane, a wreck with Chad Little while leading the spring race at Bristol, and mid-pack runs at intermediate tracks like Charlotte and Dover in a season dominated by the Ford Taurus in those tracks of Roush, Yates, and Penske, coupled with the extremely consistent Joe Gibb's No. 18 team with Bobby Labonte, denied Earnhardt the coveted eighth championship title.
In 1734, after a few months occupied with commerce in Bristol, he went to La Flèche in Anjou, France.
* Dinobase A searchable dinosaur database, from the University of Bristol, with dinosaur lists, classification, pictures, and more.
Bristol board and even heavier acid-free boards, frequently with smooth finishes, are used for drawing fine detail and do not distort when wet media ( ink, washes ) are applied.
Bluebird K7 was fitted with a lighter and more powerful Bristol Orpheus engine, taken from a Folland Gnat jet aircraft, which developed of thrust.
Yup ' ik, with an apostrophe, denotes the speakers of the Central Alaskan Yup ' ik language, who live in western Alaska and southwestern Alaska from southern Norton Sound to the north side of Bristol Bay, on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and on Nelson Island.
), in collaboration with Antoine Faivre, Roelof van den Broek, Jean-Pierre Brach, Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, Leiden / Bristol: Brill, 2005, 2 vols., 1228 p. ISBN 90-04-14187-1.
CESG does not manufacture security equipment, but works with industry to ensure the availability of suitable products and services, while GCHQ itself can fund research into such areas, for example to the Centre for Quantum Computing at Oxford University and the Heilbronn Institute at the University of Bristol.
Instead, they ordered that he be pilloried and whipped through both London and Bristol, branded on his forehead with the letter B ( for blasphemer ), bored through the tongue with a red-hot iron and imprisoned in solitary confinement with hard labour.
Most temples of the Alpha et Omega and Stella Matutina closed or went into abeyance by the end of the 1930s, with the exceptions of two Stella Matutina temples: Hermes Temple in Bristol, which operated sporadically until 1970, and the Whare Ra in Havelock North, New Zealand, which operated regularly until its closure in 1978.
New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, Thomas Telford and most notably John McAdam, with the first ' macadamised ' stretch of road being Marsh Road at Ashton Gate, Bristol in 1816.
* 1610 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
Watt continued to experiment with various gases for several years, but by 1797 the medical uses for the " factitious airs " had come to a dead end. Scientific apparatus designed by Boulton and Watt in preparation of the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol
SuperJanet3 created new 155 Mbit / s ATM nodes to fully connect all of the major sites at London, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds, with 34 Mbit / s links to smaller sites around the country.
The project continued under Cubitt with the support of the Fifth Earl of Bristol.
In 1933, after a violent encounter with the recently installed Nazis, he left for France and was then able to use family connections to flee to Bristol, England, arriving September 24, 1933.
DeWitt Bristol Brace ( 1905 ) and Strasser ( 1907 ) repeated the experiment with improved accuracy, and obtained negative results.
Richardson enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she studied alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, having started out with juvenile performances in Cinderella and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime at the Southport Dramatic Club.
They are also included in the plans for a new National Wildlife Conservation Park in Bristol, England, which is due to open in 2012 with the manatees as an addition in 2015.
According to Evan Jones ( University of Bristol ), the trouble with these is that ' they only detail the activities of those dumb enough to get caught '.

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