The Hawker Horsley was designed in 1925 as a medium day bomber. It was the last all wooden aircraft built by Hawkers. During the design, the British Air Ministry altered the requirements for its payload & extended the specification to include the carriage of a torpedo. The first prototype was flown by "George" P.S.W. Bulman in 1925 and was powered by a Rolls Royce Condor III engine (665 h.p.). An ititial order of twenty aircraft was placed, and it is believed that a mixed metal & wood structure was introduced in this batch. The first aircraft were delivered to No 11 (Bomber) Squadron of the Royal Air Force in January 1927 and the Horsleys remained in service until 1935. A total of 134 Horsleys were built, including six aircraft for the Greek Naval Air Service. The Air Ministry was formerly a department of the United Kingdom Government, established in 1918 with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the (then newly formed) Royal Air Force. ... A modern torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ... Rolls-Royce Limited was a British car and aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls in 1906 and was the result of a partnership formed in 1904. ... A Squadron is a small unit or formation of cavalry, aircraft (including balloons), or naval vessels. ... The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
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The Horsley was a large single engined biplane. It had a crew of two. As mentioned above the structure was originally all wood, but before production was complete an all-metel structure, made in what became the famious Hawker system of metal construction. Unofficially the three methods of construction were designated; Horsley Mk I for the all wooden, Horsley Mk II for the mixed material, & Horsley III for the all-metal aircraft. Some aircraft were fitted with floats. A number of different marks of engines were used mainly Rolls Royce Condors or Buzzards, and of Armstrong-Sidderley Leopards. The Horsley was much used as a flying test-bed for other engines. Some of the notable prototypes fitted were; the Napier Lion, the Rolls-Royce PV.12 & early vesions of the Merlin, and the Junker Jumo. The payload included two 550 lb bombs, one 1500 lb bomb or a torpedo weighing 2800 lb. Two aircraft were sold to the Danish Government, but these aircraft were known as Hawker Dantorp and had a slightly different fuselage. Hs123 biplane. ... General characteristics Layout W-block inline Cooling water-cooled Cylinders 12 Valve type poppet Displacement 1462 in³ (25 l) Rotation rate 2050 rpm Power 500 hp Power 370 kW Weight 858 lb (290 kg) The Lion was a 12-cylinder W-block inline aircraft engine built by Napier & Son starting... Junkers (English pronunciation: ; German pronunciation: ) were the landed aristocracy of Prussia and Eastern Germany - often also called Eastelbia (Ostelbien in German - the land east of river Elbe). ...
Hawker Siddeley was a group of UK aircraft manufacturing companies formed as a result of the merger of Hawker Aircraft with Armstrong-Siddeley.
Almost every Hawker Aircraft design of the Second World War was a success (even if not initially) mainly attributable to the design genius of Sidney Camm (later Sir Sidney) and the team he worked with.
Hawker and de Havilland merged in 1959, followed by Blackburn Aircraft, Avro (along with Avro Canada) and Whitworth (already part of Hawker), Folland and Gloster over the next year, forming the Hawker Siddeley Group.
The Hawker De Havilland Severance pay agreement that was certified by yourself in March 1999 was basically what had been the unregistered agreement for some 10 years with the addition of a process to deal with a mix and match once employees had been identified as selection for redundancy.
As I understand it Mr Horsley seeks an undertaking that industrial action not be happening or threatening or probable yet on the other hand it is very clear that industrial action certainly is not happening.
MR HORSLEY: Your Honour, perhaps it is prudent by pointing out that in relation to the offer that the company has provided there have, in fact, been a number of concessions and improvements made to the terms and conditions of severance arrangements.
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