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British Aircraft Corporation: A History
Author(s): Stephen Skinner (Author)
- Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 20 Feb. 2012
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847973183
- ISBN-13: 9781847973184
Book Description
The British Aircraft Corporation was formed from The Bristol Aeroplane Company, English Electric, Vickers-Armstrong and Hunting in 1960. In its short, seventeen-year, life, the British Aircraft Corporation built some of the most important aircraft and missiles of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond: its best-known products included the Jaguar and Tornado warplanes, Rapier missile and One-Eleven airliner. It was also responsible for the stillborn TSR2 strike aircraft, the 1965 cancellation of which remain controversial to this day. Most famously, the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airliner came from the BAC stable.
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About the Author
Stephen Skinner’s interest in aviation was sparked by watching the maiden flightof the BAC One-Eleven in 1963, and since then he has a maintained a very strong interest in the development of British aviation. This is his seventh aviation history book; he has also written a large number of articles, and reviews books regularly for the Royal Aeronautical Society.
