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

* Fairey Delta 1 ( 1951 )-transonic delta research

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

After World War 2, the United Kingdom deployed a substantial AEW capability with American Douglas AD-4W Skyraiders, designated Skyraider AEW. 1, which in turn were replaced by the Fairey Gannet AEW. 3, using the same AN / APS-20 radar.

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

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.

Fairey received 2, 000, 000 Westland shares of 5 shillings each and a cash payment of approximately £ 1. 4m.

Fairey Air Surveys, Ltd., was initially headquartered at 24 Bruton Street, London W. 1.

* Fairey F. D. 1 – experimental delta wing 1950

* Fairey F. D. 1 – experimental delta wing 1950

* March 10 – Fairey Aviation test pilot Peter Twiss sets a new airspeed record in the Fairey Delta 2, also becoming the first person to exceed 1, 000 mph ( 1, 610 km / hr ) in level flight.

To achieve this, the RAF Advanced Air Striking Force ( AASF ) was formed on 24 August 1939 from No. 1 Group, and its 10 squadrons of Fairey Battles dispatched to airfields in the Rheims area on 2 September 1939.

The Squadron was one of the last No. 1 Group units to conduct operations with Fairey Battles.

In 1951 the FD1, Fairey Delta 1, was built here.

Fairey Firefly TT. 1 target tug, painted mustard yellow, of Svensk Flygtjanst at Manchester Airport | Manchester ( Ringway Airport ) in 1955

The artwork for the Indie 103. 1 logo was created by Obey Giant street artist Shepard Fairey

The artwork for the Indie 103. 1 logo was created by Obey Giant street artist Shepard Fairey

Under the command of Number 1 Group, Swinderby came under the auspices of RAF Bomber Command and housed numbers 300 and 301 squadrons, mainly Polish manned initially flying the Fairey Battle.

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.

The Summerland Amusement Arcade on the seafront was formerly a seaplane hangar positioned at Bembridge where it housed Fairey Campania seaplanes of the Nizam of Hyderabad's Squadron.

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

Designs included the Fairey Battle, Mitsubishi Ki-51 ( known to the Allies as " Sonia "), Lockheed Hudson, and Martin Baltimore.

Production was therefore invested in Fairey Engineering Ltd but by 1962 this had been transformed into a 50 / 50 joint venture with the British Aircraft Corporation ( Holdings ) Ltd known as BAC ( AT ) LTD, with offices at 100 Pall Mall, London SWI.

Development made use of on an earlier programme by the Fairey Aviation Company known as " LOPGAP " ( Liquid Oxygen / Petrol Guided Anti-aircraft Projectile ), and a Victory Ship specially converted into prototype escort ship, RFA Girdle Ness, was procured.

The British aircraft manufacturer Fairey Aviation settled a subsidiary Avions Fairey on the site ( then known as Mont des Bergers ) in 1931.

Fairey and fellow RISD student Ryan Lesser, along with Blaize Blouin, Alfred Hawkins, and Mike Mongo, created paper and vinyl stickers and posters with an image of the wrestler André the Giant and the text " ANDRE THE GIANT HAS A POSSE 7 ' 4 ", 520 lb ", (" 7 ' 4 ", 520lbs " ( 2. 24 m, 236 kg ) being Andre The Giant's famously billed height and weight ) as an in-joke directed at hip hop and skater subculture, and then began clandestinely ( and somewhat fanatically ) propagating and posting them in Providence, Rhode Island and the rest of the Eastern United States.

ASROC started development as the Rocket Assisted Torpedo ( RAT ) program by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the early 1950 to develop as surface warship ASW weapon counter to the new post-WWII submarines which ran quieter, at much higher speed and could attack from much longer range with high speed homing torpedoes.

The orbiter was lifted up on a sling very similar to the one used at Kennedy Space Center and placed inside the Dynamic Test Stand building, and there mated to the Vertical Mate Ground Vibration Test tank ( VMGVT-ET ), which in turn was attached to a set of inert Solid Rocket Boosters ( SRB ) to form a complete shuttle launch stack, and marked the first time in the program's history that all Space Shuttle elements, an Orbiter, an External Tank ( ET ), and two SRBs, were mated together.

Suborbital tests of the engine followed during the 1960s and in 1964 the engine was sent into a suborbital flight aboard the Space Electric Rocket Test 1 ( SERT 1 ).

1st December 1967: The first ground experimental nuclear rocket engine ( XE ) assembly, is shown here in " cold flow " configuration, as it makes a late evening arrival at Engine Test Stand No. 1 at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station, in Jackass Flats, Nevada.

The Rocket Engine Test Laboratory ( RETL ) and its personnel conducted " test and evaluation " of rocket sled engines as well as rocket engines for the Bell X-1A, Boeing-Marquardt BOMARC, North American NAVAJO, MACE, Convair ATLAS, Douglas THOR, and other systems.

In 1959, elements of the Power Plant Laboratory at Dayton, Ohio, were relocated to the Edwards Rocket Engine Test facility.

* Reaction Motors Rocket Test Facility-936 Dogwood Trail ( added 1979 )

* Pictures of the Needles Rocket Test Site

; Rocket Engine Test Facility

The Rotary Rocket hangars are now occupied by the National Test Pilot School.

* An online book entitled ” How to Design, Build, and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines ”

The Rocket Development Division was formed in 1956 and the Rocket Test site at Highdown started functioning exactly one year later.

From 1966 to the present, he has been employed at the Rocket Space Corporation Energia, holding the positions of: Ground Electrical Test Engineer, Deputy Lead Designer for Orbital Stations, Department Head, and Deputy General Designer for Testing.

* Magnificent Mavericks: Transition of the Naval Ordnance Test Station from Rocket Station to Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Center, 1948 – 58, by Elizabeth Babcock.

Binnie also copiloted the Atmospheric Test Vehicle of the Rotary Rocket.

In February 2001, in a special test of operational readiness, the Strategic Rocket Forces successfully launched a silo-based Topol ICBM at a target in the Kura Test Range in Kamchatka.

It also serves the Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, the Military Rocket Test Centre in Biscarosse, and the gas plant of Lacq-Artix.

The use of ion propulsion systems were first demonstrated in space by the NASA Lewis " Space Electric Rocket Test " ( SERT ) I and II.

The J-4 Large Rocket Engine Test Facility was dedicated in 1964.

Among facilities that saw significant modernization were the J-4 Liquid Rocket Engine Test Facility, the Aeropropulsion Test Unit and the Engine Test Facility.