Bristol Aerospace is a Canadian aerospace firm located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Look up aerospace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many) Location City Information Established: 1738 (Fort Rouge),1873 (City of Winnipeg) Area: 465. ...

What would become Bristol began in 1914, when two brothers, Jim and Grant MacDonald, moved to Winnipeg and started a sheet metal business. By the late 1920s, air travel had become an important means of transportation, and Winnipeg had become the hub for travel to the booming west. The MacDonalds formed MacDonald Brothers Aircraft Company in 1930, producing sea plane floats under licence from EDO Corporation of New York. Floats continued to be produced by the company into the early 1980s. Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq. ...

During World War II the factory was used for the production of training aircraft, and by war's end had grown to 4,500 employees. At the end of the war, MacDonald became an important repair and overhaul centre for the Canadian Air Force. Their location at the center of the country lowered the average travel cost for aircraft to the factories, as well as providing high-tech jobs in the Canadian mid-west. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the Company performed depot level inspection and repair for many of Canada's early fighter planes. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II...

In 1954, MacDonald was purchased by the British Bristol Aeroplane Company, becoming their Canadian division. They became an important supplier of accessories for jet engines, building the exhaust pipes for the CF-100 Canuck, later becoming the primary maintenance depot for the plane. During the rest of the 50s and 60s, Bristol built on their experience in precision sheet metal work to become a major supplier of hot section components for various engine manufacturers. Bristol Aeroplane Company logo The Bristol Aeroplane Company (formerly British and Colonial Aeroplane Company) was a major British aircraft company which, in 1959, merged with several major British aircraft companies, to become the British Aircraft Corporation and later still part of British Aerospace, now BAE Systems. ... A Pratt and Whitney turbofan engine for the F-15 Eagle is tested at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, USA. The tunnel behind the engine muffles noise and allows exhaust to escape. ... A Canadian Forces CF-100 Mk. ...

In the early 1960s Bristol won the maintenance contract for the CF-100's replacement, the CF-101 Voodoo. This plane had been plagued with problems in the afterburner, and Bristol started a research project into how to correct the issues. Their proposal was accepted and both the Canadian and USAF F-101's were modified by Bristol, roughly doubling the lifetime of the engines. Bristol kept the maintenance contract for the Canadian CF-101's until the last of them were retired in 1984. Two 409 Squadron CF-101s in the mountains of British Columbia The CF-101 Voodoo was an all-weather interceptor aircraft operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Forces between 1961 and 1984. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was a supersonic military aircraft flown by the USAF and the RCAF. Initially designed as a long-range bomber escort (known as a penetration fighter) for the Strategic Air Command, the Voodoo served in a variety of other roles, including the fighter bomber, all-weather...

In the second half of the 1950s Bristol was selected to build several test rocket airframes for CARDE's ongoing research into high-power solid fuel propellants. After initial research completed in the early 1960s, Bristol started selling a "lightened" version of the test vehicle as the Black Brant for sounding rocket use, and opened the Rockwood Propellant Plant in 1962. As a side effect of this work, Bristol entered a partnership with Aerojet General from the US, and became Bristol Aerojet the same year. This work was later applied in the early 1970s to a new 2.75" (70 mm) engine for use in US-standard rocket launchers, leading to the CRV7, which has since become the standard 2.75" rocket in "the west". A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. ... The Defence Research Establishment Valcartier, typically shortened to DRE Valcartier or simply DREV, is a major Canadian military research station in Quebec. ... Solid fuel is a term given to various types of solid material that provide energy. ... The Black Brant is a Canadian-designed sounding rocket built by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... A sounding rocket, sometimes called an elevator research rocket, is an instrument-carrying suborbital rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its flight. ... Aerojet is a major rocket & missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Sacramento, California with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange, VA, Gainesville, VA, and Camden, AK. Their products include a wide range of propulsion, from main engines used on a number of NASA vehicles and ballistic missiles, down to stationkeeping thrusters... The CVR7 is a 2. ...

In 1967 Bristol was purchased by Rolls-Royce, and renamed to the current Bristol Aerospace. Bristol Aeroplane in England had been absorbed into British Aerospace a few years earlier. Rolls-Royce plc (LSE: RR.) (also known as Rolls-Royce Aero Engines) is the second-largest aircraft engine maker in the world, behind General Electrics GE Aircraft Engines division. ... British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. ...

During the 1970s the company continued to be involved in overhaul and maintenance work, and the CRV7 became a major product line. During this time they also developed the Wire Strike Protection System for helicopters, which cuts cables that they might strike while flying close to the ground. These devices can be found on almost all helicopters today, in the form of angular "blades" projecting from the top and bottom of the cabin area. They have become so popular that they are now designed right into most new helicopter designs.

In January 1987, Bristol won the maintenance contract for the Canadian CF-5 fleet, but in 1995 it was decided to remove them from service, and they were given to Bristol to sell off to 3rd parties. A major upgrade service was offered to replace many of the avionics, but it appears no one was interested in this program.

In 1997 Bristol was acquired by Magellan Aerospace, a company formed by merging a number of Canadian and US aerospace firms. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In 1999 Bristol won the contract for SCISAT-1, the first purely-Canadian science satellite since 1971. With its successful launch on August 12, 2003, the basic systems have been selected by the Canadian Space Agency as a generic small-satellite "bus", and plans to launch a number over the next decade. SCISAT-1 is a Canadian satellite designed to make observations of the Earths atmosphere. ... The Canadian Space Agency (CSA or, in French, lAgence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the Canadian government department space agency responsible for Canadas space program. ...

Bristol also produces parts, sub-assemblies, engine components. Some examples:

1. Boeing 767 heat pan
2. F101 engine thruster door
3. Airbus A330 fuselage aft plug
4. De haviland Canada DASH 8 engine nacelles, fairings, etc.
5. M1 Abrams tank engine housing
6. Eh 101 lower fuselage and engine parts/housings

Bristol has also worked in Canadian nuclear reactor construction. It has (and can)supply core components, CANDU tubes, and thermal sleeves to AECL and GE.

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