British Aircraft Corporation

British Aircraft Corporation Ltd.. (BAC ) was a 1959/60 arising on the merger of various British tradition Flugzeugwerke aircraft company. The concentration of companies in the BAC was under pressure from the British government in order to survive in the environment of the U.S. competition as a British company can.

The BAC belonged to the aircraft works by Vickers Armstrong, English Electric, Bristol Aircraft Company and Hunting Aircraft. The company through its participation in the construction of the British- French Concorde joint project ( airframe in connection with Sud Aviation, later Aerospatiale now EADS, engines by Rolls-Royce and SNECMA ) became known.

Other types of aircraft from the BAC - production were:

• Vickers VC10 airliners, BAC 1-11 (better known as One-Eleven ) and Concorde
• Military Aircraft Lightning, BAC -167, Panavia Tornado (along with MBB and Fiat ) and SEPECAT Jaguar (along with Breguet )

Furthermore, the group produced several armaments, such as the ground - to-air missiles Bloodhound, Thunderbird, and rapier and the anti-tank guided weapons Vigilant and Swingfire. Furthermore, the Group participated in various space projects (satellite UK-3 ) and built, among others, sounding rockets, gyroscopes, antennas and supersonic wind tunnels.

1973, the Group had 34,000 employees BAC, the capital was essentially owned by Vickers - Armstrong.

The last act of concentration took place in 1977, when the state's British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley and Scottish Aviation of the British Aerospace Corporation ( BAe ) (now BAE Systems ) merged.