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Index Saunders-Roe SR.53

The Saunders-Roe SR.53 was a British prototype interceptor aircraft of mixed jet and rocket propulsion developed for the Royal Air Force (RAF) by Saunders-Roe in the early 1950s.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 75 relations: Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Afterburner, Aileron, Air Ministry, Air-to-air missile, Armstrong Siddeley Snarler, Armstrong Siddeley Viper, Avro, Avro 720, Bachem Ba 349 Natter, Bomber, Cold War, Cordite, Cowes, De Havilland, De Havilland Firestreak, De Havilland Spectre, De Havilland Sprite, Delta wing, Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom), Dorset, Ejection seat, Farnborough International Airshow, Flap (aeronautics), Flight International, Flying boat, Gloster Meteor, High-test peroxide, Hydrogen peroxide, Infrared, Interceptor aircraft, Isle of Wight, Janes Information Services, JATO, Jet engine, John Stanley Booth, Liquid oxygen, Liquid-propellant rocket, List of Air Ministry specifications, List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force, Mach number, Maiden flight, Maurice Brennan, Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, Methanol, Ministry of Supply, MOD Boscombe Down, Monopropellant, Nazi Germany, Nuclear weapon, ... Expand index (25 more) »

  2. 1950s British fighter aircraft
  3. Mixed-power aircraft
  4. Saro aircraft

Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment

The Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE) was a research facility for British military aviation from 1918 to 1992.

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Afterburner

An afterburner (or reheat in British English) is an additional combustion component used on some jet engines, mostly those on military supersonic aircraft.

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Aileron

An aileron (French for "little wing" or "fin") is a hinged flight control surface usually forming part of the trailing edge of each wing of a fixed-wing aircraft.

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Air Ministry

The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964.

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Air-to-air missile

Python family of AAM for comparisons, Python-5 (displayed lower-front) and Shafrir-1 (upper-back) An air-to-air missile (AAM) is a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft (including unmanned aircraft such as cruise missiles).

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Armstrong Siddeley Snarler

The Armstrong Siddeley Snarler was a small rocket engine used for mixed-power experiments with an early turbojet engine.

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Armstrong Siddeley Viper

The Armstrong Siddeley Viper is a British turbojet engine developed and produced by Armstrong Siddeley and then by its successor companies Bristol Siddeley and Rolls-Royce Limited.

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Avro

Avro (an initialism of the founder's name) was a British aircraft manufacturer.

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Avro 720

The Avro 720 was an in-development British single-seat interceptor of the 1950s. Saunders-Roe SR.53 and Avro 720 are 1950s British fighter aircraft, Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United Kingdom and mixed-power aircraft.

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Bachem Ba 349 Natter

The Bachem Ba 349 Natter (Colubrid, grass-snake) was a World War II German point-defence rocket-powered interceptor, which was to be used in a very similar way to a manned surface-to-air missile. Saunders-Roe SR.53 and Bachem Ba 349 Natter are mid-wing aircraft.

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Bomber

A bomber is a military combat aircraft that utilizes air-to-ground weaponry to drop bombs, launch torpedoes, or deploy air-launched cruise missiles.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Cordite

Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in Britain since 1889 to replace black powder as a military firearm propellant.

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Cowes

Cowes is an English seaport town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight.

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De Havilland

The de Havilland Aircraft Company Limited was a British aviation manufacturer established in late 1920 by Geoffrey de Havilland at Stag Lane Aerodrome Edgware on the outskirts of north London.

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De Havilland Firestreak

The de Havilland Firestreak is a British first-generation, passive infrared homing (heat seeking) air-to-air missile.

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De Havilland Spectre

The de Havilland Spectre is a rocket engine that was built by the de Havilland Engine Company in the 1950s.

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De Havilland Sprite

The de Havilland Sprite is a British rocket engine that was built by de Havilland in the early-1950s for use in RATO (Rocket-assisted take off) applications.

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Delta wing

A delta wing is a wing shaped in the form of a triangle.

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Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)

The Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers, and since 1993 to other ranks, of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly to officers of other Commonwealth countries, for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy".

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Ejection seat

In aircraft, an ejection seat or ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew of an aircraft (usually military) in an emergency.

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Farnborough International Airshow

The Farnborough International Airshow is a trade exhibition for the aerospace and defence industries, where civilian and military aircraft are demonstrated to potential customers and investors in Farnborough, Hampshire.

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Flap (aeronautics)

A flap is a high-lift device used to reduce the stalling speed of an aircraft wing at a given weight.

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Flight International

Flight International is a monthly magazine focused on aerospace.

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Flying boat

A flying boat is a type of fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water.

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Gloster Meteor

The Gloster Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only jet aircraft to engage in combat operations during the Second World War.

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High-test peroxide

High-test peroxide (HTP) is a highly concentrated (85 to 98%) solution of hydrogen peroxide, with the remainder consisting predominantly of water.

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Hydrogen peroxide

Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound with the formula.

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Infrared

Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.

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Interceptor aircraft

An interceptor aircraft, or simply interceptor, is a type of fighter aircraft designed specifically for the defensive interception role against an attacking enemy aircraft, particularly bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ ''WYTE'') is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent.

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Janes Information Services

Janes is a global open-source intelligence company specialising in military, national security, aerospace and transport topics, whose name derives from British author Fred T. Jane.

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JATO

JATO (acronym for jet-assisted take-off) is a type of assisted take-off for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets.

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Jet engine

A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion.

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John Stanley Booth

Squadron Leader John Stanley Booth (9 December 1919 – 5 June 1958) was an English aviator, a pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and, after the end of the conflict, became a test pilot.

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Liquid oxygen

Liquid oxygen, sometimes abbreviated as LOX or LOXygen, is a clear light sky-blue liquid form of dioxygen.

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Liquid-propellant rocket

A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket utilizes a rocket engine burning liquid propellants.

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List of Air Ministry specifications

This is a partial list of the British Air Ministry (AM) specifications for aircraft.

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List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force

Many aircraft types have served in the British Royal Air Force since its formation in April 1918 from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service.

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Mach number

The Mach number (M or Ma), often only Mach, is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.

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Maiden flight

The maiden flight, also known as first flight, of an aircraft is the first occasion on which it leaves the ground under its own power.

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Maurice Brennan

Maurice Joseph Brennan BSC, MIMechE, FRAes (April 1913 – 18 January 1986) was a British aerospace engineer.

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Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet

The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet is a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft primarily designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. Saunders-Roe SR.53 and Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet are mid-wing aircraft.

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Methanol

Methanol (also called methyl alcohol and wood spirit, amongst other names) is an organic chemical compound and the simplest aliphatic alcohol, with the chemical formula (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often abbreviated as MeOH).

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Ministry of Supply

The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK government formed on 1 August 1939 by the Ministry of Supply Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 38) to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply.

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MOD Boscombe Down

MoD Boscombe Down is the home of a military aircraft testing site, on the south-eastern outskirts of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.

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Monopropellant

Monopropellants are propellants consisting of chemicals that release energy through exothermic chemical decomposition.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Operational Requirement

An Operational Requirement, commonly abbreviated OR, was a United Kingdom (UK) Air Ministry document setting out the required characteristics for a future (i.e., as-yet unbuilt) military aircraft or weapon system.

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Oxidizing agent

An oxidizing agent (also known as an oxidant, oxidizer, electron recipient, or electron acceptor) is a substance in a redox chemical reaction that gains or "accepts"/"receives" an electron from a (called the,, or). In other words, an oxidizer is any substance that oxidizes another substance.

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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RAF Hurn

Royal Air Force Hurn or more simply RAF Hurn is a former Royal Air Force station located approximately north west of Christchurch, Dorset, England Opened in 1941, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces.

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Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor

The Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor (originally designated XP-91) is a mixed-propulsion prototype interceptor aircraft, developed by Republic Aviation. Saunders-Roe SR.53 and Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor are mid-wing aircraft.

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Rocket

A rocket (from bobbin/spool) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using any surrounding air.

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Rocket engine

A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellants as the reaction mass for forming a high-speed propulsive jet of fluid, usually high-temperature gas.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Air Force Museum Midlands

The Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, located in Cosford in Shropshire, is a free museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force in particular.

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Royal Aircraft Establishment

The Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) was a British research establishment, known by several different names during its history, that eventually came under the aegis of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), before finally losing its identity in mergers with other institutions.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Saunders-Roe

Saunders-Roe Limited, also known as Saro, was a British aerospace and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.

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Saunders-Roe SR.177

The Saunders-Roe SR.177 was a 1950s project to develop a combined jet- and rocket-powered interceptor aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy. Saunders-Roe SR.53 and Saunders-Roe SR.177 are 1950s British fighter aircraft, Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United Kingdom, mid-wing aircraft, mixed-power aircraft and Saro aircraft.

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SNCASE SE.212 Durandal

The SNCASE SE.212 Durandal was a French jet and rocket mixed-power experimental fighter aircraft of the mid-1950s.

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SNCASO Trident

The SNCASO SO.9000 Trident is a French jet and rocket powered interceptor aircraft built by aircraft manufacturer SNCASO during the 1950s. Saunders-Roe SR.53 and SNCASO Trident are mixed-power aircraft.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Squadron leader

Squadron leader (Sqn Ldr or S/L) is a senior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force.

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Strategic bombing

Strategic bombing is a systematically organized and executed attack from the air which can utilize strategic bombers, long- or medium-range missiles, or nuclear-armed fighter-bomber aircraft to attack targets deemed vital to the enemy's war-making capability.

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Supersonic speed

Supersonic speed is the speed of an object that exceeds the speed of sound (Mach 1).

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Surface-to-air missile

A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles.

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T-tail

A T-tail is an empennage configuration in which the tailplane of an aircraft is mounted to the top of the fin.

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Turbojet

The turbojet is an airbreathing jet engine which is typically used in aircraft.

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Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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1957 Defence White Paper

The 1957 White Paper on Defence (Cmnd. 124) was a British white paper issued in March 1957 setting forth the perceived future of the British military.

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See also

1950s British fighter aircraft

Mixed-power aircraft

Saro aircraft

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders-Roe_SR.53

Also known as SR 53, SR.53, Saro SR.53, Saunders Roe SR.53.

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