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During World War II, with a few exceptions, such as the attacks from 17th to 21st June 1940 by single aircraft of No. 216 Squadron on the airfields of El Adem and Tobruk, the unit was principally a transport squadron, operating the Vickers Type 264 Valentia, Bristol Bombay, Vickers Wellington, Lockheed Hudson and Douglas Dakota.

M. G. K. Menon was educated at Jaswant College, Jodhpur, and the Royal Institute of Science, Bombay, before he moved to the University of Bristol for his Ph. D in elementary particle physics under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Cecil F. Powell in 1953.

Equipment mostly consisted of the Handley Page Harrow, supplemented with the Bristol Bombay and civil airliners impressed into military service, including the Handley Page H. P. 42s from Imperial Airways.

On 7 August a Schwarm from 5 ./ JG 27, led by Oberfeldwebel Emil Clade, chanced upon a Bristol Bombay transport of No. 216 Squadron RAF.

British scout aircraft, in this sense, included the Sopwith Tabloid and Bristol Scout.

He was likewise awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the Universities of Bristol, Belfast, Melbourne, British Columbia, McGill, Montreal, Royal University of Malta, Laval, Quebec, Tasmania, Cambridge, Harvard, Leeds, Adelaide, Queensland, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Drury and California.

* 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.

In 1960 the aircraft interests were merged with those of the Bristol, English Electric Company and Hunting Aircraft to form the British Aircraft Corporation.

The greatest of “ the great men of England ,” the last and noblest of the Romans, was considered the embodiment of virtue, wisdom, patriotism, liberty, and temperance ... Pitt, “ glorious and immortal ,” the “ guardian of America ,” was the idol of the colonies ... A Son of Liberty in Bristol County, Massachussetts paid him the ultimate tribute of identification with English liberty: “ Our toast in general is ,— Magna Charta, the British Constitution ,— and Liberty forever !”

* December 23 – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician ( b. 1724 )

* May 19 – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician ( d. 1779 )

* August 31 – George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman ( d. 1775 )

He attended several of the earlier meetings of the British Association at York, Oxford, Dublin and Bristol.

In a speech to the electorate at Bristol in 1774, Edmund Burke described the British Parliament as a " deliberative assembly ," and the expression became the basic term for a body of persons meeting to discuss and determine common action.

Aircraft production operations were absorbed into Hawker Siddeley and its engine operations into Bristol Siddeley, as part of the rationalisation of British aircraft manufacturers, and the Blackburn name was dropped completely in 1963.

Unsustainable losses as a result of the loss of the Libyan oil industry support flight contract, increasing competition from roll-on / roll-off ferries and the lack of suitable replacements for the ageing Bristol Freighters resulted in growing financial difficulties, culminating in Silver City's takeover by British United Airways ( BUA ) holding company Air Holdings in 1962.

Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol, United Kingdom.

The Danish Navy had 6 Søløven class torpedo boats ( the export version of the British Brave class fast patrol boat ) in service from 1965 to 1990 ) which had 3 Bristol Proteus ( later RR Proteus ) Marine Gas Turbines rated at combined, plus two General Motors Diesel engines, rated at, for better fuel economy at slower speeds.

The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aero engines.

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 British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, Ltd was founded in February 1910 by Sir George White, chairman of the Bristol Tramway and Carriage Company, along with his son Stanley and his brother Samuel, to commercially exploit the fast-growing aviation sector.

A flying school was also established, with premises at Brooklands, then the centre of activity for British aviation, where Bristol rented a hangar, and at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain, where in June 1910 a school was established on of land leased from the War Office.

Its products had always been referred to by the name ' Bristol ' and this was formalized in 1920, when British and Colonial was liquidated and its assets became the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd. At this time the Company, acting under a certain amount of pressure from the Air Ministry, bought the aero-engine division of the bankrupt Cosmos Engineering Company, also of Bristol, to form the nucleus of its new aero-engine operations.

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.

* Bristol Beaufort, a large British torpedo bomber

More successful was the Bristol Beaufighter, which reused major portions of the earlier Beaufort torpedo bomber.

On 10 June 1940, RAF bomber squadrons in AHQ Egypt — under the direction of No. 202 Group RAF — totalled five squadrons of Bristol Blenheims, one of Vickers Valentias and one of Bristol Bombays.

After a short selection process the Type I was given to the Bristol Aeroplane Company, building on submissions they had made during the war for a " 100 ton bomber ".

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

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.

He was posted to 29 Squadron flying Bristol Blenheims in a day fighter and bomber escort role.

* Bristol Blenheim, a World War II-era light bomber used primarily by the Royal Air Force

A Bristol Blenheim bomber

* Late July – In the first use of airborne radar for interception of an enemy aircraft, a Flying Officer Ashfield flying a British Bristol Blenheim IF night fighter destroys a German Dornier Do 17 bomber.

* March 10 – 11 ( overnight ) – The Handley Page Halifax becomes the second British four-engined bomber to enter combat, as six Halifaxes of No. 35 Squadron join eight Bristol Blenheims in attacking Le Havre, France.

It leads to the establishment of the Engineering Division of the U. S. Department of Wars Bureau of Aircraft Production to test its recommendations and to the manufacturing of the de Havilland DH. 9 bomber and Bristol F. 2B fighter in the United States.

The Luftwaffe bomber pilots flew up the Bristol Channel, following the River Severn as a guide to the industrial Midlands.

The first was the Bristol Braemar bomber, flying in 1918 with the Mk II version in 1919.

** 2 Bristol Blenheim light bomber squadrons

The aircraft manufactured included the Bristol Blenheim ( 250 ), the Lancaster bomber ( 695 ), the Anson ( over 4, 500 ), the York ( 45 ) and the Lincoln ( 25 ).

The squadron re-equipped with Bristol F. 2 Fighters in September 1917, but had no more success against German raiders until the night of 19 / 201918, when a 39 Squadron Bristol Fighter shot down a Gotha bomber.

* Bisley, the initial name for the ground attack version of the Bristol Blenheim bomber of World War II

Wattisham opened on 5 April 1939 as a medium bomber station, the squadrons there being equipped with Bristol Blenheim bombers.

During World War II it was used primarily as a bomber base, flying Bristol Blenheim, de Havilland Mosquito and Avro Lancaster aircraft.