led by Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace (BAe). Designed as a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable winged launch vehicle, HOTOL was to be fitted with...

British Aerospace plc (BAe) was a British aircraft, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer that was formed in 1977. Its head office was at Warwick...

and amphibious aircraft, instead of using runways, use water. British Aerospace HOTOL Index of aviation articles Takeoff and landing "V/STOL - Was it...

250-ton reusable Interim HOTOL spacecraft developed by British Aerospace have presented as part of a joint international aerospace system for near-Earth...

Blue Origin using New Glenn. Aerospike engine Bristol Spaceplanes British Aerospace HOTOL Kankoh-maru Launch loop Lockheed Martin X-33 Mass fraction NASA...

subsequently harnessed on later efforts, most prominently the re-usable HOTOL spaceplane project of the 1980s. Development of the TSR-2 was one of the...

work along with it. LACE was also the basis of the engines on the British Aerospace HOTOL design of the 1980s, but this did not progress beyond studies.[dubious...

Spirit AeroSystems (through its British facilities). Current and future crewed aircraft in which the British aerospace industry has a major role include...

resulting in development work being terminated. Aerospace publication Flight International observed that HOTOL and other competing spaceplane programmes were...

Aerospace P.125 British Aerospace HOTOL (BAC, British Aircraft Company, United Kingdom) BAC Planette BAC Drone BAC VIII Bat-Boat (BAC, British Aircraft Corporation...

into orbit. It was never constructed. In the 1980s, British Aerospace began development of HOTOL, an SSTO spaceplane powered by a revolutionary SABRE...

by Alan Bond after HOTOL was cancelled. The Skylon spaceplane has been positively received by the British government, and the British Interplanetary Society...

Dyna-Soar British Aerospace HOTOL Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird North American XB-70 Valkyrie Project ISINGLASS Rockwell X-30 National Aerospace Plane Saenger...

Mirage IV. Concorde had an ogee-shaped wing. With British Aerospace, he became the Chief Engineer of the HOTOL project. He later became a part-time Professor...

embarked on their own national programs to produce spaceplanes, such as HOTOL and Hermes, while attempting to attract the backing of the multinational...

with Dr. Bob Parkinson of British Aerospace. Alan Bond brought a precooled jet engine design he had invented to the HOTOL project, and this became the Rolls-Royce...

1975 1992 Rockwell X-30 Rockwell International 1980 1993 British Aerospace HOTOL British Aerospace and Rolls-Royce 1982 1989 Trans Atmospheric Vehicle Lockheed...

Parkinson MBE (born 15 July 1941) is a British aerospace engineer who worked on many projects including HOTOL which he cooriginated with Alan Bond. Dr...

ideas for what could have become the RB545 air-breathing rocket engine for HOTOL. He co-founded Reaction Engines in 1989. At Reaction Engines, he is working...

later merged with rival Hawker Siddeley to form British Aerospace (B.Ae) and when the reusable HOTOL spaceplane project arose in 1984, the project team...

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011. The company owns Rolls-Royce, a business...

prototype. Reaction Engines Skylon, a design descendant of the 1980s British HOTOL ("Horizontal Take-Off and Landing") design project, is an HTHL spaceplane...

This is a list of notable aerospace engineers, people who were trained in or practiced aerospace engineering and design. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K...

series of LACE-like designs that started in the early/mid-1980s for the HOTOL project. The design comprises a single combined cycle rocket engine with...

obstacles that were imposed on further HOTOL development due to the British government classifying the HOTOL engine as an "Official Secret", and keeping...

Bristol Spaceplanes (BSP) is a British aerospace company based in Bristol, England, who has designed a number of spaceplanes with sub-orbital and orbital...

turnaround time and automatic computer control. In mid-1990s, British research evolved an earlier HOTOL design into the far more promising Skylon design, which...

a joint cooperation between British Aerospace and the Soviet Ministry of Aviation Industry as a part of the Interim HOTOL program. It remains unbuilt...

(2021). Chinese spaceplane programs. Peter Wood, BluePath Labs, China Aerospace Studies Institute. Montgomery, AL. ISBN 9798763459043. OCLC 1288576470...

powered maneuvering anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile developed by Russia. HOTOL Jet engine Single-stage-to-orbit Skylon (spacecraft) Hypersonic Scramjet...