* 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 with No. 114 Squadron, Royal Air Force

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.

* July 6 – The world's first Air Car-ferry service is flown by a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways from Lympne to Le Touquet.

** A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people.

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.

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.

Bristol's most successful aircraft during this period was the Bristol Bulldog fighter, which formed the mainstay of Royal Air Force ( RAF ) fighter force between 1930 and 1937, when the Bulldog was retired from front line service.

With the post-war rapid contraction of military orders Cosmos Engineering went bankrupt, and the Air Ministry let it be known that it would be a good idea if the Bristol Aeroplane Company purchased it.

* Bristol Freighter 1957-1964 operated by Air Charter

Other Barnes Wallis papers are also held at Brooklands Museum, the Imperial War Museum, London, Newark Air Museum and the Royal Air Force Museum, Trinity College, Cambridge and Bristol, Leeds and Oxford universities.

Reporting to the battleship Arizona ( BB-39 ) in February 1927, Bristol served as executive officer of that dreadnought until April of the following year, and then moved to the Naval Air Station ( NAS ), San Diego, California for aviation instruction.

The Arthur L. Bristol School, which educated the children of U. S. Navy personnel between 1957 and 1995 at Naval Air Station Argentia, Newfoundland, also was named for Vice Admiral Bristol.

While the New Zealand Air Force overhauled the Southern Cross free of charge Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm were taken on a triumphant tour of New Zealand, flying in Bristol Fighters.

* June 30 – During a 2¼-hour flight in the Bristol Type 138A, Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant M. J. Adam sets a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale-homologated world altitude record of 16, 440 meters ( 53, 937 feet ).

Design work started in 1960 and was announced in 1961 at the Paris Air Show, but was later merged with similar work at the British Aircraft Corporation ( originally the Bristol 223 ) to create the Concorde project in November 1962.

The Type I design developed into Air Ministry Specification 2 / 44, and was contested by the Bristol Brabazon and the Miles X-15.

These new aircraft gave a much-needed boost to the morale and combat capability of the Pakistan Air Force ; 93 Hawker Fury and roughly 50-70 Bristol Freighter aircraft were inducted into the PAF by 1950.

Many military units and civilian groups provide support for Ten-Tors and the Jubilee Challenge including the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, Exeter UOTC, 243 Field Hospital RAMC, 6th Battalion The Rifles, two Sea King HC4 helicopters from 848 Naval Air Squadron, 39 ( Skinners ) Signal Regiment, two Gazelle helicopters from 7 Regiment Army Air Corps ( Volunteers ), Bristol UOTC and the Dartmoor Rescue Group.

** Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the U. S. Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet.

Late in 1915, Bristol was assigned the duties of aide and torpedo officer on the staff of Commander, Torpedo Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet and, in the winter of 1916, he became aide and flag secretary to the Commander, Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet.

After serving in that capacity into the following winter, Bristol was awarded the Navy Cross for his service as flag secretary and acting chief of staff to Commander, Cruiser and Transport Force.

Bristol brokered a deal in 1996 for the purchase of ten single-seat and three dual-seat CF-5s by the Botswana Defence Force, but this was the only sale to be made.

* September 28 – Flying the Bristol Type 138A, Royal Air Force Squadron Leader F. R. D. Swain takes off from Farnborough, England, and sets a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale-homologated world altitude record of 15, 230 meters ( 49, 967 feet ).

* June 13 – Fifteen Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skuas of No. 800 and No. 803 squadrons from HMS Ark Royal join Royal Air Force Bristol Beaufort torpedo bombers escorted by Bristol Blenheim fighters in attacking Scharnhorst and other German warships anchored in Trondheimsfjord, Norway.

* Antishipping strikes by Malta-based Royal Air Force Bristol Blenheims and Fleet Air Arm Swordfish against Axis convoys in the Mediterranean in May and June will leave German and Italian forces in North Africa too short of ammunition to conduct a counteroffensive after defeating the British Operation Battleaxe in June.

* May 4 – Three Bristol Blenheims of No. 15 Squadron, South African Air Force, on a familiarisation flight from Kufra, Libya, become lost over the Libyan Desert and are forced to land due to fuel exhaustion.

* Bristol Bulldog with No. 3 Squadron, Royal Air Force

* The first Bulgarian Air Force is formed, using Blériot, Albatros, Farman, Nieuport, Voisin, Somer, Skiorski, and Bristol aircraft ( 23 in total ) to fight in the First Balkan War.

The Bristol Bloodhound is a British surface-to-air missile developed during the 1950s as the UK's main air defence weapon, and was in large-scale service with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) and the forces of four other countries.

Bristol Blenheim MK IV: Bristol Blenheim Serial Number: unknown Markings: Royal Air Force, North Africa, 1941.

As part of the Royal Air Force ’ s modernisation and expansion in the late 1930s, No. 29 received Bristol Blenheim F. 1 heavy fighters in December 1938.

This meant that large stabilising fins as used on contemporary missiles in service with the Royal Air Force ( Bristol Bloodhound ) and the British Army ( English Electric Thunderbird ) were not required.