Charles Richard Fairey was seconded there for a short time, before setting up his own company, Fairey Aviation, which relocated across the railway.

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.

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

Founded in 1915 by Charles Richard Fairey ( later Sir Richard Fairey ) on his departure from Short Brothers, the company first built under licence or as subcontractor aircraft designed by other manufacturers.

Under these changes, the Fairey Co. would become a holding company, with control of policy and finance throughout the group.

Fairey went into liquidation when it introduced a Britten-Norman Islander production line into its subsidiary company, Avions Fairey and overproduced the plane and subsequently faced redundancy payments of about £ 16 million in Belgium.

* Fairey Industrial Products Ltd, Heston, Management company ;

* Fairey Marine Holdings Ltd, Hamble, Management company ;

* Fairey Developments Ltd, Heston, Management company:

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 Australasia was the first company to be established at the Weapons Research Establishment ( WRE ).

In 1935 the Fairey company received a substantial order for Hendon night bombers and established production lines at the Heaton Chapel factory.

The company became Williams Fairey Engineering in 1986, and was then taken over by Kidde part of the American giant United Technologies Corporation.

For some sixty years the band was associated with the company and its successors, although the Fairey Band has now had to turn to external sources for financial backing.

Throughout its history though the band has retained its identity with the company under guises as the Fairey Aviation Works Band, Williams Fairey Band and later Fairey ( FP Music ) Band.

* Fairey Aviation Company, British aircraft company

* Fairey Marine Ltd, a shipbuilding company based on the River Hamble, Southampton, England

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.

Aircraft equipping the squadron included the Sopwith 1½ Strutter, built by the Fairey Aviation company, then situated in Hayes.

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.

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 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.

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.

The chairmanship of Eric Mensforth from 1953 – 1968 marked the start of the transition, which was aided by the government when in 1959 – 1961 they forced the merger of the 20 or so aviation firms into three groups, British Aircraft Corporation and Hawker Siddeley Group took over fixed-wing designs, while the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ( with their hovercraft ) were merged with Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961.

By then Norman MacMillan was Fairey Aviation's chief test pilot.

Woolverstone is home to the Royal Harwich Yacht Club that was for many years host to the Swordfish 15-foot racing dinghy built by Fairey Marine, in addition to its 12-foot Firefly, a derivative of the National 12-foot dinghy, both designed by the great sailor Uffa Fox.

They only produced hybrid aircraft: the Blackburn Skua, a dive bomber / fighter that was used for a short time and in small numbers, and the Fairey Barracuda, a dive bomber / torpedo bomber.

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.

Another issue would be noise that the rocket tipped rotor is likely to be extraordinarily noisy, as was the Fairey Rotodyne.

* John Fairey ( 1935 – 2009 ), aviator son of Charles Fairey ( founder of the Fairey Aviation Company ), was born in Iver

At 10 pm, Victorious was 120 miles away and launched an air attack with nine Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers, which were guided in by Norfolk.

The station was used mainly for training, and the first squadrons were equipped with Vickers Wellesley aircraft, but soon converted to Fairey Battles.

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.

Soon however, the Sparviero faced the Hawker Hurricane and the Fairey Fulmar, which was faster but still quite slow in relation to other escort fighters.

The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Greater London and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Greater Manchester.

The first aircraft designed and built by the Fairey Aviation specifically for use on an aircraft carrier was the Fairey Campania a patrol seaplane that first flew in February 1917.

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

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.

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.

Fairey, the former Deputy Minister of Education, the then-current provincial Director of Industrial and Technical Education and also the Regional Director of the Canadian Vocational Training Program.

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.

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 ).