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The Fairey Delta 2 or FD2 was a British supersonic research aircraft produced in response to a specification from the Ministry of Supply for investigation into flight and control at transonic and supersonic speeds. An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ...
The Maiden flight of an aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground of its own accord. ...
October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ...
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1954: Events January January 10 - a BOAC de Havilland Comet crashes into the Mediterranean Sea near Elba with the loss of all 35 people aboard. ...
Fairey Aviation Company logo The Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century, notable for a number of important planes, including the Fairey III family and the Fairey Swordfish. ...
This is a partial list of the British Air Ministry specifications for aircraft. ...
The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK Government formed in 1939 to co-ordinate the supplying of equipment to the British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply. ...
Transonic is an aeronautics term referring to a range of velocities just below and above the speed of sound. ...
It has been suggested that hypersonic be merged into this article or section. ...
The design was a mid wing delta monoplane, on a circular cross section fuselage with no tailplane. The engine was a Rolls-Royce Avon with an afterburner. The Delta 2 had a very long tapering nose which obscured forward vision during landing, take-off and movement on the ground. To compensate, the nose section and cockpit dropped 10 degrees in a similar way to that used on Concorde later. Two aircraft were built. The Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet was developed by Cyril Lovesey who had previously been in charge of Merlin development at Rolls-Royce. ...
The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST), along with the Tupolev Tu-144, was one of only two models of supersonic passenger airliners to have seen commercial service. ...
The first FD2 was aircraft WG774 which made its maiden flight on 6 October 1954, under the command of Fairey test pilot Peter Twiss. On 10 March 1956, this aircraft broke the World Air Speed Record raising it to 1,132 mph (1811 km/h), an increase of some 300 mph (480 km/h) over the record set in year before by an F-100 Super Sabre, and thus became the first aircraft to exceed 1,000 mph in level flight. This aircraft was later converted in 1960 by the British Aircraft Corporation to become the BAC 221 for aerodynamic research for Concorde flying in 1964 and until 1973. WG774 is now on display alongside the British Concorde prototype at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton. The second FD.2 (WG777) is preserved at the Royal Air Force Museum at RAF Cosford alongside many other supersonic research aircraft. October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). ...
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Lionel Peter Twiss (born 23 July 1921) OBE DSC and bar is a British pilot, who held the World Air Speed Record. ...
March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ...
1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Determining the fastest aircraft in the world is difficult, because of the wide variety of designs. ...
F-100A Super Sabre The North American F-100 Super Sabre was a jet fighter aircraft that served with the USAF from 1954 to 1971 and with the ANG until 1979. ...
The British Aircraft Corporation, or BAC, was a British aircraft manufacturer, formed from the forced merger of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, English Electric, Vickers-Armstrong and Hunting Aircraft Company in 1959. ...
The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST), along with the Tupolev Tu-144, was one of only two models of supersonic passenger airliners to have seen commercial service. ...
// Fleet Air Arm Meuseum The Fleet Air Arm Museum is located 7 mile north of Yeovil, and 40 miles south of Bristol, on RNAS Yeovilton. ...
RNAS Yeovilton is an air station of the Royal Navy, sited a few miles north of Yeovil in Somerset. ...
An Avro Lancaster in the main hangar of the RAF Museum Hendon The Royal Air Force Museum (RAF Museum) is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation, and the British Royal Air Force in particular. ...
RAF Cosford is a Royal Air Force station in Shropshire, just to the northwest of Wolverhampton and next to Albrighton. ...
The FD2 was used as the basis for Fairey's submissions to the Ministry for advanced all weather interceptor designs leading to the Fairey "Delta III" for the F.155 specification but it never got past the drawing board stage. The Operation Requirement F.155 was an identified need by the British Ministry of Supply for an interceptor aircraft for the defence of the United Kingdom. ...
Specifications (Fairey Delta 2) General characteristics - Crew: 1
- Length: 51 ft 7 in (15.7 m)
- Wingspan: 26 ft 10 in (8.2 m)
- Height: 11 ft (3.4 m)
- Wing area: 360 ft² (33 m²)
- Empty weight: 11,000 lb (4,990 kg)
- Loaded weight: 13,884 lb (6298 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 13,884 lb (6,298 kg)
- Powerplant: 1× Rolls-Royce RA.5 turbojet, 10,000 lb (4536 kg)
Performance The distance AB is the wing span of this Aer Lingus Airbus A320. ...
In aviation, the Maximum Take-Off Weight (or MTOW) is the maximum weight with which an aircraft is allowed to try to achieve flight. ...
The Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet was developed by Cyril Lovesey who had previously been in charge of Merlin development at Rolls-Royce. ...
Turbojets are the simplest and oldest kind of general purpose jet engine. ...
VNO of an aircraft is the V speed which refers to the velocity of normal operation. ...
The maximal total range is the distance an aircraft can fly between takeoff and landing as limited by its fuel capacity. ...
In aeronautics, the service ceiling is the maximum density altitude where the best rate of climb airspeed will produce a 100 feet per minute climb(twin engine) and 50 feet(single engine) at maximum weight while in a clean configuration with maximum continuous power. ...
This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ...
In aerodynamics, wing loading is the loaded weight of the aircraft divided by the area of the wing. ...
References H A Taylor (1974). Fairey Aircraft since 1915. Putnam. ISBN 0-370-00065-X.
Peter Twiss (2000). Faster than the Sun. Grub Street Publishing. ISBN 1-902304-43-8.
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Avro 707 at Farnborourg 1951 The Avro 707 was a British experimental aircraft built to test the delta wing design of the Avro 698 (later to become the Vulcan), and was a scaled-down version of that aircraft. ...
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