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2 unusual facts about Westland-Hill Pterodactyl


Westland-Hill Pterodactyl

Fitted with a 600 hp Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine and 2 Vickers machine guns, it demonstrated equal capability to conventional fighters of the day, but other issues prevented it from going into production.

A two-seat fighter powered by a 600 h.p. Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine, it differed noticeably from the previous versions in having a sesquiplane lower wing and tractor propeller.


1960 Birthday Honours

Mrs Mabel Winifred Gunn - matron of the Whataroa Hospital, South Westland.

737 Naval Air Squadron

Her helicopter, the Westland Wessex HAS.Mk3 XP142, nicknamed "Humphrey", was responsible for the remarkable rescue of 16 SAS men from Fortuna Glacier and the subsequent detection and disabling of the Argentinian submarine Santa Fe.

Battle of the Bogside

The Derry Citizens Defence Association set up a headquarters in the house of Paddy Doherty in Westland Street and tried to supervise the making of petrol bombs and the positioning of barricades.

Bell/Agusta Aerospace Company

The partnership dates back to separate manufacturing and technology agreements with Agusta (Bell 47 and Bell 206) and as a sublicence via Agusta with Westland (Bell 47).

Blanchfield

Paddy Blanchfield (1911–1980) was a Labour Member of Parliament for Westland and the West Coast.

Charles Woolcock

Charles Woolcock (died 1891) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Westland, New Zealand.

Granville, County Tyrone

The industrial estate includes the headquarters and main factory of Dunbia (formerly, known as Dungannon Meats) and one of the main plants of Linden Foods, also Westland Horticulture has its compost site and head office on the estate.

Imperial Highway

There are a handful of other Imperial Highways in the United States, including one in San Diego (better known as Imperial Avenue) and in the Detroit suburbs of Redford Township, Michigan and Westland, Michigan.

John Cuckney, Baron Cuckney

He subsequently became director and/or chairman of various companies, including travel company Thomas Cook, Midland Bank, tea company Brooke Bond, engineering firm John Brown, helicopter manufacturer Westland, Royal Insurance, Investors in Industry (later 3i), pharmaceutical company Glaxo, and Orion Publishing Group.

Laurence Bagley

In the early 60's when Westland began to develop the hovercraft at the Saunders-Roe site (later to become The British Hovercraft Corporation) at Cowes, Isle of Wight, he painted dozens of artists impressions of their proposed new designs.

Maasdijk

Maasdijk, Westland, a village in the Dutch province of South Holland, part of the municipality of Westland

Napier Gazelle

These helicopter engines were used on the Westland Wessex HAS 1 and HAS 3 (Other versions of the Wessex had 2 Rolls Royce Gnome engines) and the Bristol Belvedere (later Westland Belvedere) transport helicopter.

No. 116 Squadron RAF

The Squadron reformed at Hatfield on 17 February 1941 from No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Calibration Flight with Westland Lysanders.

Norwayne

Norwayne Historic District, a residential historic district in Westland, Michigan

Norwegian Air Ambulance

Air ambulance services in Norway have been operated by private companies and the military since the 1920s, but the first dedicated service came in 1972 when the Air Force 330 squadron was equipped with Westland Sea King helicopters.

Pseudopanax colensoi

An example occurrence in central Westland podocarp/broadleaf forests includes flora associates such as Cyathea smithii and Dicksonia squarrosa, Rumohra adiantiformis, Ascarina lucida, Pseudowintera colorata and Blechnum discolor.

Richard LeBlanc

In 2006 he was elected to represent Michigan's 18th State House District, which is located in Wayne County and includes the entire city of Westland.

LeBlanc won easily in the heavily Democratic 18th District, which is located in Wayne County and includes the Detroit suburb of Westland.

Sikorsky H-19

An additional 550 were manufactured by licensees of the helicopter including Westland Aircraft, the SNCASE in France and Mitsubishi in Japan.

Southern Alps

The mountains are rich in flora with about 25% of the country's plant species being found above the treeline in alpine plant habitats and grassland with mountain beech forest at lower elevations (of the eastern side but not in Westland).

Tmesipteris tannensis

An example of occurrence of T. tannensis within a tiered phytocoenosis is in Central Westland of South Island, New Zealand.

Wanda Young

As of 2013, Wanda, now 70 years old, lives with her daughter in the western Detroit suburb of Westland, Michigan.

Westland

The Westland affair, a 1986 British political crisis stemming from the government's ownership of Westland Aircraft

Westland Dragonfly

The Westland WS-51 Dragonfly helicopter was built by Westland Aircraft and was a license-built version of the American Sikorsky S-51.

Westland High School

As of January 8, 2013, Westland has a rivalry with Upper Arlington after a fierce anti-Upper Arlington Twitter campaign spearheaded by Westland PR representative, @EZTrav.

Westland PV-3

In November 1932, the PV-3 was chosen, together with the Westland PV-6 (the prototype of the Westland Wallace) for the Houston Mount Everest Flying Expedition to fly over and photograph Mount Everest.

Westland PV.7

It flew for the first time on 30 October 1933, with Harald Penrose, Westland's regular test pilot at the controls.

Westland Wyvern

The prototype W.34; the Wyvern TF Mk 1, first flew at Boscombe Down on 16 December 1946 with Westland's test pilot Harald Penrose at the controls.

Westland Yeovil

The Westland Yeovil was a British biplane bomber designed and built by Westland Aircraft in 1923 to meet an Air Ministry Specification for a single-engined day bomber.


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