The fin actuation subsystem ( FAS ) was originally designed and manufactured by the Claverham Group ( formerly Fairey Hydraulics Limited ) a Somerset, UK, based division of the U. S. company Hamilton Sundstrand.

* 1933: A local trade directory lists for Heathrow these: Mrs. Waddell ( Cain's Farm house ); < u > farmers or market gardeners </ u >: Harry Curtis ( Heathrow Farm ), George Dance ( a small house on Heathrow Road nearly opposite the Plough and Harrow pub ), William Howell ( Bathurst ), Frederick Philp ( Heathrow Hall ), Sidney Whittington ( Perry Oaks ), David and John Wild ( Croft House ); < u > other </ u >: Heathrow Sand & Gravel Co ( Colnbrook ) Ltd., Edgar Charles Basham ( The gazette misprinted his surname as Sasham ) ( publican at the Plough and Harrow pub ), Fairey Aviation.

Following a series of mergers and takeovers, the principal successor businesses to the company now trade as WFEL ( formerly Williams Fairey Engineering Limited ) manufacturing portable bridges, Spectris plc and as FBM Babcock Marine Ltd

C. R. Fairey and the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., was awarded £ 4, 000 for work on the Hamble Baby seaplane.

On 13 March 1959 Flight reported that Fairey Aviation Ltd was to be reorganised following a proposal to concentrate aircraft and allied manufacturing activities in the United Kingdom into a new wholly owned subsidiary called the Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd.

It is proposed to change the company's name to the Fairey Co. Ltd., and to concentrate general engineering activities in the Stockport Aviation Co. Ltd., whose name would become Fairey Engineering Ltd.

* Fairey Engineering Ltd, Stockport, General and nuclear engineering ;

* Fairey Nuclear Ltd, Heston, Nuclear components and light engineering ; see also Dungeness nuclear power station

* Fairey Industrial Products Ltd, Heston, Management company ;

* Fairey Filtration Ltd, Heston, Industrial filters ;

* Fairey Winches Ltd, Tavistock, Vehicle overdrives, winches and hubs ;

* Fairey Marine Holdings Ltd, Hamble, Management company ;

* Fairey Marine ( East Cowes ) Ltd, East Cowes, Ship and boat building ;

* Fairey Exhibitions Ltd, Hamble, Exhibition stand contractors ;

* Fairey Marine Ltd, Hamble, Boat building and repair ;

The sale did not include Fairey Air Surveys or the works at Heston which was home to the weapon division, which had a contract for research into advanced anti-tank missile systems.

* Fairey Developments Ltd, Heston, Management company:

Starting with the Fairey Gyrodyne, this type of aircraft later evolved into the much larger twin-engined Fairey Rotodyne, that used tipjets to power the rotor on take-off and landing but which then used two Napier Eland turboprops driving conventional propellers mounted on substantial wings to provide propulsion, the wings serving to unload the rotor during horizontal flight.

A batch of the Fairey Hamble Baby were built and then another enquiry came in for a shipboard reconnaissance plane.

The Plover had a good performance but only six were built for service in 1923 ; the Royal Navy preferring the Fairey Flycatcher despite its lower speed.

Conceived as a replacement for the Westland Wapiti and Fairey Gordon it initially called for day and night bombing capabilities, reconnaissance, torpedo and dive-bombing roles.

Nimrod aside, many naval fighters were named for birds-such as the Fairey Flycatcher, Fairey Fulmar, Blackburn Skua and Grumman Martlet ( the martlet being a heraldic bird ).

In 1929, Fairey Aviation bought of land just southeast of Heathrow hamlet, to establish an airfield for flight testing ; later purchases gradually enlarged this airfield to about.

Charles Richard Fairey was seconded there for a short time, before setting up his own company, Fairey Aviation, which relocated across the railway.

* Fairey Delta 2 ( 1954 )-1st aircraft to break 1, 000 mph, rebuilt as BAC 211 for high speed delta research for Concorde

Woolverstone is home to the Royal Harwich Yacht Club that was for many years host to the Swordfish 15-foot racing dinghy built by Fairey Marine, in addition to its 12-foot Firefly, a derivative of the National 12-foot dinghy, both designed by the great sailor Uffa Fox.

This naturally led to the use of light bombers as the preferred platform for airborne radars, and in May 1939 the first experimental fit took place, on a Fairey Battle.

To compensate for this, many dive bombers are designed to be trimmed out, either through the use of special dive flaps ( such as Fairey Youngman flaps ) or through changes in tailplane trim that must be readjusted when the dive is completed.

They only produced hybrid aircraft: the Blackburn Skua, a dive bomber / fighter that was used for a short time and in small numbers, and the Fairey Barracuda, a dive bomber / torpedo bomber.

Romanian aircraft used to pass through Avions Fairey in Belgium to the UK for certification.

When the invasion did come on 10 May 1940, the Germans were not only in possession of more aircraft and weapons than the western Allies ( among them were approximately 400 aircraft from the RAF, including Hawker Hurricane fighters and outclassed Fairey Battle bombers ), but many of them were veterans of the war in Spain and so had brought their comrades up to speed as to how to conduct the air element of the war by " preparing the ground " for the Panzer divisions of the German Army.

No. 1 Group, with its squadrons of Fairey Battles, left for France to form the Advanced Air Striking Force.

The station was used mainly for training, and the first squadrons were equipped with Vickers Wellesley aircraft, but soon converted to Fairey Battles.

Notable for the design of a number of important military aircraft, including the Fairey III family, the Swordfish, Firefly, and Gannet, it had a strong presence in the supply of naval aircraft, and also built bombers for the RAF.

The first aircraft designed and built by the Fairey Aviation specifically for use on an aircraft carrier was the Fairey Campania a patrol seaplane that first flew in February 1917.

* Fairey Seal, a 1930s British carrier-borne torpedo bomber aircraft

* May 26 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the carrier HMS Ark Royal cripple the steering of Bismarck in an aerial torpedo attack.

The Type 194 was in an advanced state of design when the Bristol Helicopter Division was merged, as a result of government influence, with the helicopter interests of other British aircraft manufacturers ( Westland, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ) to form Westland Helicopters in 1960.

While the majority of fixed-wing aircraft design and construction lie in the British Aircraft Corporation and the Hawker Siddeley Group the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ( with their hovercraft ) were merged with Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961.

* On 7 December 1934 at least two SABENA aircraft were destroyed in a hangar fire at Evere as a result of a crash of a military Fairey Fox biplane.

* Fairey Spearfish, an unrelated 1940s torpedo bomber aircraft

On 11 November 1940, the Royal Navy crippled or destroyed three Italian battleships by using carrier borne aircraft, the obsolescent Fairey Swordfish, in the Battle of Taranto.

* The Fairey Flycatcher, a British fighter aircraft of the 1920s-1930s

Various aircraft were used, from the obsolete and horrendously vulnerable Fairey Battle in 1939 to the command's most numerous and successful aircraft, the Avro Lancaster.

From the name of the Assegai, it can be assumed that the aircraft is of delta configuration, and it can be assumed that it is a re-labeling of Fairey FD-2 supersonic prototype powered by the Bristol Orpheus turbojet.

The station did not have any aircraft however, until the end of the month when a de Havilland Tiger Moth and a Fairey Albacore arrived.

RAF Benson was officially opened on Saturday 1 April 1939 and its first aircraft were two squadrons of Fairey Battle light bombers which began to arrive a few days later.

The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Greater London and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Greater Manchester.

Founded in 1915 by Charles Richard Fairey ( later Sir Richard Fairey ) on his departure from Short Brothers, the company first built under licence or as subcontractor aircraft designed by other manufacturers.