If you ask most aviation geeks about the de Havilland Comet, they're bound to conjure images of hideous crashes, explosive decompression, and badly designed windows which led to stress fractures that ...

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The Hawker Siddeley Trident was Britain’s answer to short-haul jet travel, but delays, politics, and poor choices crippled its future. Across the Atlantic, Boeing’s 727 seized the market, leaving the ...

BTR bids for Hawker Siddeley: Britain`s BTR PLC, an industrial conglomerate, offered about $2.55 billion Friday for Hawker Siddeley Group PLC, a diversified industrial manufacturer. Hawker Siddeley`s ...

Glacier Ventures International Corp.,a publisher of technical and legal manuals, says it has succeeded with its sweetened offer of $6.2-million for the remnants of former aviation giant Hawker ...

Early last year, at the Asian Aerospace show in Hong Kong, I watched eager Chinese purchasers line up for tours of all sorts of aircraft, including business jets large and small. As I describe in my ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Following the end of World War Two, ...

This cover image shows a Hawker Siddeley HS-125-600 executive jet flying over cliffs at the Isle of Wight. It is powered by Rolls-Royce/Bristol Viper 600 turbojet engines. If you're a subscriber you ...

About 75 jobs are to be lost at a south Wales valleys engineering firm. In total, 35 staff are to be made redundant at Hawker Siddeley Switchgear in Blackwood, Caerphilly county, and about 40 ...