• Thumbnail for Westland Dreadnought
    The Westland Dreadnought was an experimental single-engined fixed-wing monoplane design for a mail plane created to test the aerodynamic wing and fuselage...
    5 KB (546 words) - 04:25, 8 November 2024
  • Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961. Westland N.1B Westland Wagtail Westland Weasel Westland Limousine Westland Walrus Westland Dreadnought...
    12 KB (1,372 words) - 10:54, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blended wing body
    developed a theory of the BWB and, following wind tunnel tests, the Westland Dreadnought was built. It stalled on its first flight in 1924, severely injuring...
    24 KB (2,170 words) - 13:06, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Miles M.30
    0.0613 hp/lb Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Westland Dreadnought Related lists List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force List of experimental...
    5 KB (384 words) - 23:03, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for McDonnell XP-67
    in prototype) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Westland Dreadnought - an earlier type having all-aerofoil aerodynamic profiles Curtiss...
    18 KB (2,299 words) - 03:58, 10 November 2024
  • Fawn Farman F.140 Super Goliath May 4 – Sikorsky S-29-A May 9 – Westland Dreadnought May 26 – Tupolev ANT-2 May 30 – Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.8 June...
    23 KB (3,006 words) - 01:51, 27 June 2024
  • bomber – Airco DH.9A replacement Fairey Fawn 6/21 Postal aeroplane Westland Dreadnought 7/21 Single-Seat Ship Fighter Parnall Plover 8/21 Torpedo aeroplane...
    126 KB (3,305 words) - 02:30, 2 June 2024
  • Woyevodsky, Nicolas. "US 1391355 A". Google Patent Search. USPTO. The Westland Dreadnought had been built to test Woyevodsky's ideas in 1924 Brown, Don L. (1970)...
    7 KB (677 words) - 23:01, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for May 1924
    adjourned the session for the day. The futuristic Westland Dreadnought, designed for Britain's Westland Aircraft company by Russian-born inventor Nicolas...
    66 KB (7,958 words) - 20:57, 19 November 2024
  • A.M.I.N.A (12 April 1904 – 31 August 1996) was the chief test pilot at Westland Aircraft between 1931 and 1953, a naval architect, and an aviation author...
    17 KB (2,165 words) - 19:04, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for RFA Olwen (A122)
    water and dry stores could also be carried. She could operate Westland Wessex or Westland Sea King helicopters, or other helicopters of similar size, from...
    10 KB (863 words) - 17:30, 17 September 2024
  • Kingdom) Westland Belvedere Westland C.29 Westland C.O.W. Gun Fighter Westland CL.20 1930s autogyro Westland Dragonfly Westland Dreadnought Westland F.29/27...
    70 KB (6,274 words) - 06:01, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Future of the Royal Navy
    final two of seven Astute-class submarines; the first three of four Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarines, the first four of eight Type 26 frigates;...
    139 KB (12,431 words) - 16:05, 24 November 2024
  • to the South Atlantic (Falklands) in company with HMS Alacrity, HMS Dreadnought and RFA's Resurgent and Olwen calling at Funchal, Madeira before returning...
    11 KB (1,171 words) - 10:24, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taylor Guitars
    third employee, Steve Schemmer, bought American Dream and renamed it the Westland Music Company. Needing a more compact logo suitable for the guitars' headstock...
    18 KB (1,458 words) - 06:26, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Naval tactics
    explosive shells lead to new tactics that were developed for the big-gun Dreadnought battleships. The mine, torpedo, submarine and aircraft posed new threats...
    23 KB (2,942 words) - 00:02, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aviation-capable naval vessel
    Supercarrier Battleships Coastal defence ship Dreadnought Fast battleship Pre-dreadnought battleship Super-dreadnought (Standard-type battleship) Treaty battleship...
    7 KB (316 words) - 15:35, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Northumberland (F238)
    pipe the Ship in and out of Devonport when deploying or returning) TS Dreadnought (Greenwich, Deptford & Rotherhithe Sea Cadets) Dame Alice Harpur School...
    24 KB (2,133 words) - 18:52, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Falklands War
    secretly sent a force of two frigates and a nuclear-powered submarine, HMS Dreadnought, to the South Atlantic, codenamed Operation Journeyman. It is unclear...
    212 KB (23,123 words) - 00:57, 22 November 2024
  • all Tigerfish by 2004. British 18-inch torpedo List of torpedoes The Dreadnought Project. "Beagle Class Destroyer (1909)". www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index...
    41 KB (4,270 words) - 23:33, 30 October 2024
  • in the 2010 SDSR. A new generation of nuclear missile submarines, the Dreadnought-class, was ordered in 2016. BAE Systems sold the regional aircraft leasing...
    130 KB (12,389 words) - 09:04, 22 November 2024
  • Brazil acquired two of the most powerful and advanced dreadnoughts of the day which sparked a dreadnought race with Brazil's South American neighbours. The...
    106 KB (10,665 words) - 03:47, 26 October 2024
  • its director and the aft superstructure was replaced by a hangar for a Westland Wasp helicopter. Two single Bofors guns were positioned on the hangar roof...
    21 KB (2,379 words) - 23:22, 12 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for English Electric Canberra
    take advantage of the newly developed jet propulsion technology. In 1944, Westland Aircraft's technical director and chief designer W. E. W. Petter had prepared...
    120 KB (14,437 words) - 12:06, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for United Kingdom Commando Force
    Retrieved 17 June 2009. "The 847 Naval Air Squadron transitions to the AgustaWestland Wildcat AH.1 helicopter Interview with Major David Sutton Royal Marines...
    26 KB (2,028 words) - 02:10, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Special Boat Service
    the SBS carried out missions all over southern Afghanistan with AgustaWestland Apache helicopters. Along with training and mentoring Afghan Provincial...
    76 KB (8,404 words) - 12:31, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Sultan (shore establishment)
    Unit with Sikorsky Hoverfly, Saunders-Roe Skeeter 3, Westland WS-51 Dragonfly, Hiller HT.1, Westland Whirlwind staying until 1 November 1955 706 Naval Air...
    23 KB (2,817 words) - 14:44, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Landing Craft Assault
    initial assault had been seaborne, their follow on build-up arrived by Westland Whirlwind helicopter. The great success of this, the first helicopter-borne...
    123 KB (17,773 words) - 20:59, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of shipwrecks in the Channel Islands
    "St Issey". 1921 Baden ( Imperial German Navy) Open Sea A Bayern-class dreadnought sunk on 16 August 1921 as a target in Hurd Deep. 49°49′42″N 2°23′21″W...
    147 KB (4,301 words) - 21:00, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Landing Ship, Tank
    they would no longer be needed. The flight deck was large enough for two Westland Wessex helicopters with rotors turning, or six could be parked with rotors...
    84 KB (10,172 words) - 20:04, 17 November 2024