Another British company, the former aircraft builder Fairey, built a successful all-mechanical unit for the Land Rover, which is still in production in America today.

When Saunders-Roe was acquired by Westland Helicopters production continued via Saunders-Roe Developments Ltd of North Hyde Road, Hayes, Middlesex ( the former Fairey Aviation Head office ).

Fairey Marine Ltd was begun in the late 1940s by Sir Richard Fairey and Fairey Aviation's Managing Director, Mr. Chichester-Smith.

* Fairey Industrial Products Ltd, Heston, Management company ;

* Fairey Filtration Ltd, Heston, Industrial filters ;

Fairey Technical Unit after Col. F. T.

Later renamed the Fairey Technical Centre, in addition to previous disciplines it also housed classes for industrial design, art metal and jewelry, and even dance.

The facility was closed in 2011 and replaced with the Fairey Technical Building, a new 57, 000 square foot addition to the main school building.

Shepard Fairey and Invader ( artist ), who Guetta discovers is his cousin, are also in the film.

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.

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

In March 1949, the company undertook repair and overhaul work for the Royal Canadian Navy on the Supermarine Seafire and the Fairey Firefly and later the Hawker Sea Fury and also undertook modification work on the Grumman Avenger.

Fairey of Canada also developed a component and instrument design and manufacturing organisation.

Fairey Engineering Ltd also made Nuclear Reactor cores and fuelling machines for Dungeness B and Trawsfynydd.

The Fairey company was also involved in the early development of pilotless aircraft which led to the development of radio controlled pilotless target aircraft in Britain and the United States in the 1930s.

Fairey Australia also displayed an aerodynamic test vehicle, described as a " three-inch winged round.

Fairey Engineering had the sales agency for all countries outside the US, and was also been appointed by the Australian Department of Supply's to assist in the introduction of the Malkara to operational service and to design and produce modifications.

* 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.

Boulton Paul also built the Fairey Barracuda and did conversions of the Vickers Wellington.

The squadron also operated a few old Fairey Gordons for night patrols in Egypt.

" Andre The Giant Has a Posse " is also the title of a 1995 documentary short by Helen Stickler, which was the first documentary to feature Shepard Fairey and chronicle his influential street art campaign.

827 Naval Air Squadron was also stationed at Yeovilton operating Fairey Albacores and later Barracudas starting in May 1943, becoming the first squadron to receive Barracudas in any substantial number.

Fairey Albacores of the Royal Navy dropped flares to illuminate targets for Vickers Wellington medium bombers and for the artillery ; also, the minefields that were thought to be thin turned out to be deep.

Brum also produced Spitfire s, Hawker Hurricane s, Fairey Battle light bombers, Mercury and Pegasus aero engines, Short Stirling four-engined heavy bombers and Avro Lancaster s during the Second World War.

It was also used in gun turrets, such as the dorsal turret in the Bristol Blenheim, the nose turret in the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley and the rear turret of the Fairey Battle ( see photo at top ).

* Francis Fairey, ( 1887-1971 ), Canadian politician,

Another T-6, G-CCPM, ex Canadian AF, is being restored to flying condition, and there are two others waiting restoration, as is a Fairey Battle.

The problem was solved in the early 1960s when the Royal Canadian Navy ’ s Experimental Squadron 10 ( VX 10 ), based at Shearwater, in collaboration with Dartmouth ’ s Fairey Aviation, developed the world ’ s first Helicopter Hauldown and Rapid Securing Device ( HHRSD ) or " beartrap ".

In 1943, Fancourt landed a Fairey Swordfish with Michael, then a 16-year-old Air Training Corps cadet, as a passenger, on HMS Argus.

Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers, 12 in total, flew into the Fleet Air Arm ( FAA ) base at Hal Far ; the 767 Training Squadron, who had escaped southern France following the French capitulation.

Shepard Fairey rose to fame after his " Andre the Giant Has a Posse " sticker campaign, in which his art was plastered in cities across America.

Such graffiti / street artists as Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, Mint & Serf, Futura 2000, Os Gemeos, and Faile among others have successfully transcended their street art aesthetic beyond the walls of urban landscape and onto walls of private and corporate clients.

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.

* 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.

** Royal Navy Fairey Swordfish based on Malta bomb Tripoli.

Famous biplanes include the Sopwith Camel, Antonov An-2, Beechcraft Staggerwing, Boeing Stearman, Bristol Bulldog, Curtiss JN-4, de Havilland Tiger Moth, Fairey Swordfish, Pitts Special and the Wright Flyer.

Helicopters such as the Lynx and Westland Wasp have been deployed on smaller vessels since 1964, taking over the roles once performed by biplanes such as the Fairey Swordfish.

On display there is a full-size replica Fairey Swordfish, along with historic items and memorabilia.

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.

Designs came from Handley Page, Vickers, Fairey, Armstrong Whitworth and Parnall with what was to be the final expressly military type, the unnamed type G. 4 / 31.

The Fairey Jet Gyrodyne and Fairey Rotodyne had true tipjets instead of the rockets.

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.

This meant the Type 194 was in competition with Westland's and Fairey's large helicopter designs such as the Westland Westminster and the Fairey Rotodyne.

Supermarine Walrus, Blackburn Roc, Fairey Gannet.

Torpedo bombers were given ' fish ' names, e. g., Blackburn Shark, Fairey Swordfish, Fairey Barracuda.

Westland did progress as a private venture a large space-frame cargo helicopter design using a Sikorksy rotor head-the Westland Westminster-but this was dropped later in favour of the government funded Fairey Rotodyne.