The huge factory at Brooklands went on to design and build the BAC TSR. 2, One-Eleven and major assemblies for Concorde.

Post-WWII, Vickers went on to manufacture the piston-engined Vickers VC. 1 Viking airliner, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners and ( as part of BAC ) the VC10 jet airliner, which remains in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker.

The Old Iloilo Airport Bids and Awards Committee ( BAC ) declared a failed bidding because no bid went above the minimum price.

: For the TCPI based on BAC ( describing the performance required to meet the original BAC budgeted total ):

* 1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.

A bacterial artificial chromosome ( BAC ) is a DNA construct, based on a functional fertility plasmid ( or F-plasmid ), used for transforming and cloning in bacteria, usually E. coli.

To address this need, BAC started work on a separate radar guidance unit, primarily to improve foreign sales.

BAC responded by adapting the Rapier system to fit on the M548, a cargo-carrier version of the ubiquitous M113 armored personnel carrier.

BAC One-Eleven on 50th anniversary stamp

Forecasting an excess labour capacity, the Bristol Aeroplane Company ( BAC ) began working with AFN Ltd, makers of Frazer Nash cars and British importer of BMWs before the war, on plans for a joint venture in automotive manufacture.

British Aerospace was formed on 29 April 1977 by the nationalisation and merger of The British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ), the Hawker Siddeley Group and Scottish Aviation.

No funds for the work were forthcoming from the USA, and Wallis's design ideas were passed over in the UK in favour of the BAC TSR-2 ( on which one of Wallis's sons worked ) and Concorde.

When Concorde was being designed by Aérospatiale – BAC, high bypass jet engines (" turbofan " engines ) had not yet been deployed on subsonic aircraft.

The first supersonic test flight ( Flight 14 ) was achieved on the transfer from A & AEE, Boscombe Down, to BAC Warton.

To coincide with the arrival of the first BAC One-Eleven 500, the airline changed its name on 1 January 1970 to Court Line and introduced a new corporate look and strategy that focused exclusively on the then fast-growing package holiday market.

In particular, microarray-comparative genomic hybridization ( CGH ) based on the use of BAC clones promises a sensitive strategy for the detection of DNA copy-number changes on a genome-wide scale.

During that period, the airport scene at Berlin Tegel could be very colourful, with Air France Caravelles, the UK independents ' BAC One-Elevens, de Havilland Comets and Hawker Siddeley Tridents as well as the US supplementals ' Boeing 707s, Convair Coronados and Douglas DC-8s congregating on its ramp.

Soon, the airline made the move to pure jets, with its first BAC One-Eleven arriving in Honolulu on April 16, 1966.

By the close of the 1960s, a sizeable number of Boeing 737s, BAC One-Elevens, Boeing 707s, and Hawker Siddeley Tridents were using the airport on a regular basis.

This resulted in a BEA order for 18 firm BAC One-Eleven 500s plus six options in January 1967, for delivery from autumn 1968, to meet BEA's requirement to replace Vanguards / Viscounts on its Heathrow – Manchester and internal German routes.

The aircraft is seen at London Gatwick Airport | London Gatwick sharing the ramp with a British Caledonian BAC One-Eleven ( foreground ) on 12 March 1972.

A week later, on 29 January, BEA began evaluating the BAC One-Eleven's suitability for its Berlin operations, with the start of a series of test flights conducted on its behalf by BAC's 475 series demonstrator.

Under the terms of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act BAC was officially nationalised in 1977 to become part of the British Aerospace group, which exists today in the guise of BAE Systems.

Under the terms of the 1977 Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act BAC was nationalised to become part of British Aerospace ( later BAE Systems ).

Sea Wolf is a naval guided missile system designed and built by BAC, later to become British Aerospace ( BAe ) Dynamics ( now MBDA ).

Quebecair grew to become a second tier regional airline, operating BAC One-Eleven jets and Fokker F27 Friendship turboprops on routes throughout the province of Quebec and into New Brunswick.

Changing its name to Hunting Percival Aircraft in 1954 and finally to Hunting Aircraft in 1957 the company merged with the Bristol Aeroplane Company, English Electric and Vickers-Armstrongs in 1959 to form the British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ), later to become part of British Aerospace, now BAE Systems.

The aircraft division was formed into the subsidiary English Electric Aviation Ltd. in 1958, becoming a founding constituent of the new British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ) in 1960 ; EE having a 40 % stake in the latter company.

In 1960 the aircraft interests were one of the founding companies merged to form BAC.

In 1977, BAC was nationalised along with Scottish Aviation and Hawker Siddeley to form British Aerospace ( BAe ).

On 29 April 1977, as a result of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act, Hawker Siddeley Aviation and Dynamics were nationalised and merged with British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ) and Scottish Aviation to form British Aerospace.

* 1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.

* BAC TSR-2, a prototype British bomber ( TSR = Tactical Strike / Reconnaissance )

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.

In 1959 Bristol was forced by Government policy to merge its aircraft interests with English Electric, Hunting Aircraft, and Vickers-Armstrongs to form the British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ).

The British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ) was a British aircraft manufacturer formed from the government-pressured merger of English Electric Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ), the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 1960.

When BAC was formed, the Bristol Aeroplane Company ( Car Division ) was not included in the consolidation, but carved off by Sir George White whose family had founded the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company in 1910 ( later the Bristol Aeroplane Company ).

Rapier began development in 1961 as a private venture at British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ) known as " Sightline ".

* 1970: Second extension of Gatwick's runway by to to permit non-stop jet operations to the US east coast with a full payload and full-range / payload operations by British United and Caledonian BAC One-Eleven 500s.

He bought a number of BAC 1-11 aircraft from DAN AIR forming European Aviation, but soon after this, British Airways dumped all of its BAC 1-11 onto the market drowning it.

* BAC Jet Provost, a British training aircraft

The British Airways predecessors had started operating at Sola after World War II, but it was only in 1980 that they started regular flights with BAC One-Eleven aircraft to London Heathrow Airport.

Other jet airlines that served Fresno in the past included Pacific Air Lines with Boeing 727-100s, Hughes Airwest ( previously Air West ) with Douglas DC-9-10s and DC-9-30s, Pacific Southwest Airlines ( PSA ) with Boeing 727-100, 727-200, 737-200 and McDonnell Douglas MD 80s, Western Airlines with Boeing 727-200, 737-200 and 737-300 service, Delta Airlines with Boeing 727-200 and 737-300 aircraft, Continental Airlines with Boeing 737-200 and 737-300 flights, Air Cal with Boeing 737-200 service and Pacific Express with British Aircraft Corp. BAC One-Eleven jets.

Pacific Express also served the airport with British Aircraft Corp. BAC One-Eleven jets with service to San Francisco.

Initially, all British Airways services from Tegel – with the exception of the daily non-stop service to London Heathrow – continued to be operated by BAC One-Eleven 500s.

A British United Airways | British United BAC One-Eleven # The One-Eleven 500, 510ED and 475 | BAC One-Eleven 500 at Berlin Tegel in July 1970