Desmond Norman
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Nigel Desmond Norman aircraft designer: born London 13 August 1929; co-founded Britten-Norman 1954; CBE 1970; chairman and managing director, AeroNorTec 1988-2002; married 1956 Anne Fogg Elliot (two sons; marriage dissolved 1964), 1965 Boel Holmsen (née Suenson; two sons, one daughter, one stepdaughter); died of a heart attack on Basingstoke railway station
, Hampshire 13 November 2002. A true aviation pioneer, he brought about dramatic changes in air travel and agriculture. With his lifelong friend and business partner John Britten, he also designed, built and sailed racing yachts, as well as a series of air cushion vehicles and crop spraying equipment. See also Norman Baronets
for details of the family title. Norman's grandfather was Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet, a Liberal politician.
, he attended Twyford School
in Winchester
, before being evacuated to the United States
during the Second World War. There, he allegedly had a dust-up with the young Ted Kennedy
. Returning to England, he was sent to Eton
in 1945. At Eton, he kept a Norton motorbike in town and was given to riding it in school clothes. He was outstanding at sport, particularly on the rugby field and in the Eton eight, which he stroked at Henley in 1946. His independent spirit meant that rather than go to Cambridge University like his father and his brother Torquil Norman
he went straight from Eton into a two-year engineering apprentice
ship at the de Havilland Technical School. Here he met John Britten, whose enthusiasm for aircraft design matched his own. The two young men also shared a passion for sailing and one of their first joint commissions was to take an old 80 ft (24.4 m) ketch across the Atlantic to the Bahamas. As a national serviceman, he won the Sword of Honour during training, before spending two years in the Royal Air Force
as a fighter pilot. He later joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force
No. 601 Squadron RAF
. Desmond Norman's older brother Mark Annesley Norman (see Norman Baronets
) worked for Bristol Siddeley
Engines and later for Britten-Norman as sales manager. Norman was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron
, regularly raced his own designs and designed and built Wavewalker, a 2 masted gaff rigged 70 ft (21.3 m) schooner
http://www.schoonerseries.com/USERIMAGES/schooner%20wavewalker(1).jpg, for his family. In early 1953 John Britten and Desmond Norman designed and had built a 21 ft (6.4 m). Junior Offshore Group
sailing boat. Prior to turning the Britten Norman partnership into an incorporated company Norman spent almost 2 years as an export assistant with the SBAC.
graduate. Norman discovered in John Britten a partner who was equally keen to make a career out of aircraft design. The two men built their first aircraft at Britten's home on the Isle of Wight. The BN1F, a 36 hp ultra-light aircraft. A commercial failure, but with a third partner, Jim McMahon, they formed a crop-spraying company, Crop Culture (Aerial) Ltd. It was to be Desmond’s first big success. The reason was a revolutionary rotary atomiser, whose potential in aerial work Desmond immediately recognised and set about developing.
Corp. equity and a lot of the Snow Commander's development had taken place before the whole enterprise was sold to North American Rockwell. The aircraft became the Rockwell Thrush Commander. The success of the crop spraying operations funded the realisation of Britten and Norman's dream: to design and build an aeroplane. At the time, there was no other aircraft that filled its remit, and Norman foresaw the market potential of an island-hopping passenger plane. In 1963 Norman and Britten sold their share of Crop Culture to other members of the Board in order to concentrate their efforts on production of the Islander. A prototype, the G-ATCT, was completed within nine months and made its maiden flight in June 1965. Production was centred at Bembridge
, Isle of Wight
.
Ltd. to look at methods of transporting banana crop from plantations in Southern Cameroons. Cushioncraft
Ltd was formed out of the hovercraft division of Britten Norman, in 1966 the British Hovercraft Corporation
Ltd took a 20% shareholding. Britten-Norman Ltd had a shareholding in Hovertravel
Ltd (now the worlds oldest hovercraft transport company) of which Norman was a director since its inception in 1965. In 1968 he was voted off the Board whilst John Britten remained on the Board. Hoverwork Ltd a subsidiary of Hovertravel occupies the former Cushioncraft facilities at Woodnutts yard, Bembridge.
group in 1972, Norman stayed on as Managing Director until 1976.
Clark-Norman Aircraft Ltd.
(Triloader Aircraft Corp. NV Woudstraat 21, B-3600 Genk, Belgium)
This company was formed in 1995 to develop the Triloader turbo-prop powered 19.000 lb.(All Up Weight) Cargo Aircraft. Design offices were based on the Isle of Wight with production to be undertaken by Triloader Aircraft of Belgium. Norman's co-designer on this aircraft was Alec N. Clark, formerly of Hawker Siddeley. Following the failure to secure long term funding for the Triloader, Clark transformed Triloader Aircraft corp into Wolfsberg Aircraft Corporation NV through which Clark developed the Raven 257 to compete with the BN Islander.
AeroNorTec Ltd / Atlantic Grouphttp://www.tenencia.co.uk/aboutus.html
The AeroNorTec company was formed in 1988 (dissolved 2004) and was based in Wales and the Isle of Wight. It became part of the Atlantic Group of companies based at Coventry Airport and specialised in all aspects of light aircraft design and matters relating to G. A. certification including Powerplant changes, major airframe modifications and new aircraft designs. Norman advertised in Flight magazine AeroNorTec's ability to carry out projects right through to compliance with clients' airworthiness certification requirements. Norman held the position of Chief Designer of Tenencia Aerospace Norman had been associated with the company in its earlier incarnation when in 2005, the Design Department of Atlantic Airmotive Ltd (formerly Atlantic Aeroengineering Ltd) was subject to a management buyout and a new company was formed - Tenencia Ltd. In 1998 Norman as chief designer of Atlantic Aeroengineering worked on a project with Wilksch Airmotive Ltd
to retrofit Cessna
-150/152 to a Wilksch Avtur burning engine Norman moved his design agency from Bembridge to Baginton, Coventry Airport
,up until his death he had offices with Air Atlantique,with his vast knowledge in aircraft design put to good use in perfecting pollution control equipment.
Thales/Racal electronics
The need for a special airborne research aircraft capable of being fitted with a special forward radome was created by the Racal
,later Thales
electronics company,to this end Desmond Norman designed the necessary modifications to Dakota G-ANAF which included the radome from a Britten Norman Defender aircraft,the aircraft would be operated by the Atlanic group on special flights from Coventry around Malvern to test the respective equipment,an underfin was later added for improved directional control together with other detail differences.
NDN / NAC / Norman Aircraft
In 1976 Desmond Norman founded NDN Aircraft Ltd. The company name was changed to The Norman Aeroplane Company with effect from 22 July 1985 when the company moved to Wales, simultaneously with a transfer of its manufacturing base to Cardiff Airport, Wales, largely funded by the Welsh Development Agency
. Financial problems resulted in NAC calling in a receiver, Price Waterhouse, on 26 July 1988.
Designed by Desmond Norman;the prototype Fieldmaster (G-NRDC), was first flown at Sandown
(Isle of Wight) 17 December 1981; first production Fieldmaster (G-NACL) flew 29 March 1987; production
Croplease / EPA Aircraft
Subsequently, rights to the Fieldmaster agricultural and firefighting aircraft were sold to Andrew Mackinnon of Croplease Ltd in October 1988. Early in 1989 assembly of the Fieldmaster was resumed by Brooklands Aircraft Co Ltd. Also in early 1989, several potential purchasers had expressed interest to the receiver in taking over production of the NAC1 Freelance four-seat utility aircraft. Croplease plc was formed in April 1989 and acquired the Fieldmaster rights and Croplease Ltd business. Rights in Croplease plc designs were sold to EPA Aircraft Company in 1992. who attempted a joint venture with the Yugoslav Utva Aviation Industry organisation
Firecracker
A new company was formed, Hunting Engineering Firecracker Aircraft Ltd in order to win the RAF's need for a new basic trainer - it was not successful.
Skylander project
In early 2000 Norman was associated with the design of the Skylander project developed by GECI of France.
Basingstoke railway station
Basingstoke railway station, in the town of Basingstoke in the county of Hampshire in England, is on the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo, with local and fast services operated by South West Trains. It is also the terminus of First Great Western local services on the Reading to...
, Hampshire 13 November 2002. A true aviation pioneer, he brought about dramatic changes in air travel and agriculture. With his lifelong friend and business partner John Britten, he also designed, built and sailed racing yachts, as well as a series of air cushion vehicles and crop spraying equipment. See also Norman Baronets
Norman Baronets
The Norman Baronetcy, of Honeyhanger in the Parish of Shottermill in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 June 1915 for the journalist and Liberal politician Henry Norman. The second Baronet, Sir Nigel Norman was an Air Commodore in the...
for details of the family title. Norman's grandfather was Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet, a Liberal politician.
Early life
The son of Sir Nigel NormanNigel Norman
Air Commodore Sir Henry Nigel St Valery Norman Bt, CBE, RAF was a consulting civil engineer and Royal Air Force officer during the first half of the 20th century.-Early years:...
, he attended Twyford School
Twyford School
Twyford School is a co-educational, independent, preparatory boarding and day school, located in the village of Twyford, Hampshire.-History:Twyford claims to be the oldest preparatory school in the United Kingdom....
in Winchester
Winchester
Winchester is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, and is located at the western end of the South Downs, along the course of...
, before being evacuated to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
during the Second World War. There, he allegedly had a dust-up with the young Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...
. Returning to England, he was sent to Eton
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
in 1945. At Eton, he kept a Norton motorbike in town and was given to riding it in school clothes. He was outstanding at sport, particularly on the rugby field and in the Eton eight, which he stroked at Henley in 1946. His independent spirit meant that rather than go to Cambridge University like his father and his brother Torquil Norman
Torquil Norman
Sir Torquil Patrick Alexander Norman CBE is a British businessman, aircraft enthusiast, and arts philanthropist.-Life:An Old Etonian, graduate of Harvard and Trinity College, Cambridge, he stands 6' 7". Torquil gained his pilot’s licence at eighteen, did National Service in the Fleet Air Arm and...
he went straight from Eton into a two-year engineering apprentice
Engineering apprentice
An engineering apprenticeship is an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering or electrical engineering. A typical example is the apprenticeships formerly available at the BTH and EEC at Rugby in England...
ship at the de Havilland Technical School. Here he met John Britten, whose enthusiasm for aircraft design matched his own. The two young men also shared a passion for sailing and one of their first joint commissions was to take an old 80 ft (24.4 m) ketch across the Atlantic to the Bahamas. As a national serviceman, he won the Sword of Honour during training, before spending two years in the Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
as a fighter pilot. He later joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force
Royal Auxiliary Air Force
The Royal Auxiliary Air Force , originally the Auxiliary Air Force , is the voluntary active duty reserve element of the Royal Air Force, providing a primary reinforcement capability for the regular service...
No. 601 Squadron RAF
No. 601 Squadron RAF
No. 601 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, based in London. The squadron battle honours most notably include the Battle of Britain and the first Americans to fly in World War II were members of this squadron.-History:...
. Desmond Norman's older brother Mark Annesley Norman (see Norman Baronets
Norman Baronets
The Norman Baronetcy, of Honeyhanger in the Parish of Shottermill in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 June 1915 for the journalist and Liberal politician Henry Norman. The second Baronet, Sir Nigel Norman was an Air Commodore in the...
) worked for Bristol Siddeley
Bristol Siddeley
Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd was a British aero engine manufacturer. The company was formed in 1959 by a merger of Bristol Aero-Engines Limited and Armstrong Siddeley Motors Limited. In 1961 the company was expanded by the purchase of the de Havilland Engine Company and the engine division of...
Engines and later for Britten-Norman as sales manager. Norman was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron
Royal Yacht Squadron
The Royal Yacht Squadron is the most prestigious yacht club in the United Kingdom and arguably the world. Its clubhouse is located in Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom...
, regularly raced his own designs and designed and built Wavewalker, a 2 masted gaff rigged 70 ft (21.3 m) schooner
Schooner
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....
http://www.schoonerseries.com/USERIMAGES/schooner%20wavewalker(1).jpg, for his family. In early 1953 John Britten and Desmond Norman designed and had built a 21 ft (6.4 m). Junior Offshore Group
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Junior Offshore Group
The Junior Offshore Group is an organiser of offshore yacht races in the UK using IRC handicap system. Aimed at smaller yachts, though the size of the smallest yacht keeps getting bigger as the years go by....
sailing boat. Prior to turning the Britten Norman partnership into an incorporated company Norman spent almost 2 years as an export assistant with the SBAC.
Aviation career
In 1954, Desmond started Britten-Norman with co-founder John Britten a fellow de HavillandDe Havilland
The de Havilland Aircraft Company was a British aviation manufacturer founded in 1920 when Airco, of which Geoffrey de Havilland had been chief designer, was sold to BSA by the owner George Holt Thomas. De Havilland then set up a company under his name in September of that year at Stag Lane...
graduate. Norman discovered in John Britten a partner who was equally keen to make a career out of aircraft design. The two men built their first aircraft at Britten's home on the Isle of Wight. The BN1F, a 36 hp ultra-light aircraft. A commercial failure, but with a third partner, Jim McMahon, they formed a crop-spraying company, Crop Culture (Aerial) Ltd. It was to be Desmond’s first big success. The reason was a revolutionary rotary atomiser, whose potential in aerial work Desmond immediately recognised and set about developing.
Crop spraying equipment
Desmond Norman, recalled that Britten-Norman as an aircraft manufacturer came about because of his and John Britten's experiences as agricultural operators. The partnership began by converting Tiger Moths for export to New Zealand and later moved on to develop spraying equipment. Edward Bals designed the first Micronair rotary atomiser suitable for mounting on an aircraft but, rather than get involved with aircraft, he encouraged Britten-Norman Limited and Jim McMahon to set up Micronair Limited. At one time Britten-Norman operated 80 agricultural aircraft and the need to consider replacement equipment led to an association with Leyland Snow of Texas. The company acquired a one-third share in the Snow AeronauticalSnow Aeronautical
Snow Aeronautical was a US aircraft manufacturer, established in 1955 in Olney, Texas by Leland Snow to manufacture and market agricultural aircraft of his design...
Corp. equity and a lot of the Snow Commander's development had taken place before the whole enterprise was sold to North American Rockwell. The aircraft became the Rockwell Thrush Commander. The success of the crop spraying operations funded the realisation of Britten and Norman's dream: to design and build an aeroplane. At the time, there was no other aircraft that filled its remit, and Norman foresaw the market potential of an island-hopping passenger plane. In 1963 Norman and Britten sold their share of Crop Culture to other members of the Board in order to concentrate their efforts on production of the Islander. A prototype, the G-ATCT, was completed within nine months and made its maiden flight in June 1965. Production was centred at Bembridge
Bembridge
Bembridge is an affluent village and civil parish located on the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight. It had a population of 3,848 according to the 2001 census of the United Kingdom, leading to claims by residents that Bembridge is the largest village in England, and occasional claims that it is...
, Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
.
Hovercraft
In 1960 Britten-Norman developed the early Cushioncraft http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3359383/Hulton-Archive with support from Elders and FyffesFyffes
-History:In the 1870s Thomas Fyffe, a London food wholesaler, went into partnership with a fruit dealer named Hudson who had connections in the Canary Islands. In 1878 they shipped their first cargo of bananas to England. Within five years the business had become so successful that they purchased...
Ltd. to look at methods of transporting banana crop from plantations in Southern Cameroons. Cushioncraft
Cushioncraft
Cushioncraft Ltd was a British engineering company, formed in 1960 as a division of Britten-Norman Ltd to develop/build hovercraft. Originally based at Bembridge Airport on the Isle of Wight, Cushioncraft later moved to the Duver Works at St...
Ltd was formed out of the hovercraft division of Britten Norman, in 1966 the British Hovercraft Corporation
British Hovercraft Corporation
British Hovercraft Corporation was the corporate entity created when the Saunders Roe division of Westland Aircraft and Vickers Supermarine combined March 1966 with the intention of creating viable commercial hovercraft - .None of the Vickers designs were 'taken forward', the...
Ltd took a 20% shareholding. Britten-Norman Ltd had a shareholding in Hovertravel
Hovertravel
Hovertravel is a ferry company operating from Southsea, Portsmouth to Ryde, Isle of Wight, UK. They are the only company operating in Britain with passenger hovercraft, after Hoverspeed stopped using their craft in favour of catamarans...
Ltd (now the worlds oldest hovercraft transport company) of which Norman was a director since its inception in 1965. In 1968 he was voted off the Board whilst John Britten remained on the Board. Hoverwork Ltd a subsidiary of Hovertravel occupies the former Cushioncraft facilities at Woodnutts yard, Bembridge.
Post Britten-Norman
In 1971 Britten Norman aircraft went into liquidation and was purchased by the Fairey AviationFairey Aviation
The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Greater London and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Greater Manchester...
group in 1972, Norman stayed on as Managing Director until 1976.
Clark-Norman Aircraft Ltd.
(Triloader Aircraft Corp. NV Woudstraat 21, B-3600 Genk, Belgium)
This company was formed in 1995 to develop the Triloader turbo-prop powered 19.000 lb.(All Up Weight) Cargo Aircraft. Design offices were based on the Isle of Wight with production to be undertaken by Triloader Aircraft of Belgium. Norman's co-designer on this aircraft was Alec N. Clark, formerly of Hawker Siddeley. Following the failure to secure long term funding for the Triloader, Clark transformed Triloader Aircraft corp into Wolfsberg Aircraft Corporation NV through which Clark developed the Raven 257 to compete with the BN Islander.
AeroNorTec Ltd / Atlantic Grouphttp://www.tenencia.co.uk/aboutus.html
The AeroNorTec company was formed in 1988 (dissolved 2004) and was based in Wales and the Isle of Wight. It became part of the Atlantic Group of companies based at Coventry Airport and specialised in all aspects of light aircraft design and matters relating to G. A. certification including Powerplant changes, major airframe modifications and new aircraft designs. Norman advertised in Flight magazine AeroNorTec's ability to carry out projects right through to compliance with clients' airworthiness certification requirements. Norman held the position of Chief Designer of Tenencia Aerospace Norman had been associated with the company in its earlier incarnation when in 2005, the Design Department of Atlantic Airmotive Ltd (formerly Atlantic Aeroengineering Ltd) was subject to a management buyout and a new company was formed - Tenencia Ltd. In 1998 Norman as chief designer of Atlantic Aeroengineering worked on a project with Wilksch Airmotive Ltd
Wilksch Airmotive Ltd
Wilksch Airmotive Ltd is a UK based company which designs and manufactures compression-ignition engines for light aircraft. Wilksch engines run on Avtur , which is cheaper and more widely available than Avgas. The company, founded in 1994, manufactures two-stroke compression ignition engines...
to retrofit Cessna
Cessna
The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Their main products are general aviation aircraft. Although they are the most well known for their small, piston-powered aircraft, they also produce business jets. The company is a subsidiary...
-150/152 to a Wilksch Avtur burning engine Norman moved his design agency from Bembridge to Baginton, Coventry Airport
Coventry Airport
Coventry Airport is located south southeast of Coventry city centre, in the village of Baginton, Warwickshire, England, and about outside Coventry boundaries...
,up until his death he had offices with Air Atlantique,with his vast knowledge in aircraft design put to good use in perfecting pollution control equipment.
Thales/Racal electronics
The need for a special airborne research aircraft capable of being fitted with a special forward radome was created by the Racal
Racal
Racal Electronics plc was once the third-largest British electronics firm. Listed on the London Stock Exchange and once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, Racal was a diversified company, offering products including: as voice and data recorders; point of sale terminals; laboratory instruments;...
,later Thales
Thales
Thales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition...
electronics company,to this end Desmond Norman designed the necessary modifications to Dakota G-ANAF which included the radome from a Britten Norman Defender aircraft,the aircraft would be operated by the Atlanic group on special flights from Coventry around Malvern to test the respective equipment,an underfin was later added for improved directional control together with other detail differences.
NDN / NAC / Norman Aircraft
In 1976 Desmond Norman founded NDN Aircraft Ltd. The company name was changed to The Norman Aeroplane Company with effect from 22 July 1985 when the company moved to Wales, simultaneously with a transfer of its manufacturing base to Cardiff Airport, Wales, largely funded by the Welsh Development Agency
Welsh Development Agency
The Welsh Development Agency was a QUANGO and later an Assembly Sponsored Public Body established in 1976 to encourage business development and investment in Wales, to clear derelict land and to encourage growth of local businesses...
. Financial problems resulted in NAC calling in a receiver, Price Waterhouse, on 26 July 1988.
Designed by Desmond Norman;the prototype Fieldmaster (G-NRDC), was first flown at Sandown
Sandown
Sandown is a seaside resort town and civil parish on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England, neighbouring the town of Shanklin to the south. Sandown Bay is the name of the bay off the English Channel which both towns share, and it is notable for its long stretch of easily accessible...
(Isle of Wight) 17 December 1981; first production Fieldmaster (G-NACL) flew 29 March 1987; production
Croplease / EPA Aircraft
Subsequently, rights to the Fieldmaster agricultural and firefighting aircraft were sold to Andrew Mackinnon of Croplease Ltd in October 1988. Early in 1989 assembly of the Fieldmaster was resumed by Brooklands Aircraft Co Ltd. Also in early 1989, several potential purchasers had expressed interest to the receiver in taking over production of the NAC1 Freelance four-seat utility aircraft. Croplease plc was formed in April 1989 and acquired the Fieldmaster rights and Croplease Ltd business. Rights in Croplease plc designs were sold to EPA Aircraft Company in 1992. who attempted a joint venture with the Yugoslav Utva Aviation Industry organisation
Firecracker
A new company was formed, Hunting Engineering Firecracker Aircraft Ltd in order to win the RAF's need for a new basic trainer - it was not successful.
Skylander project
In early 2000 Norman was associated with the design of the Skylander project developed by GECI of France.
Aircraft Designs
- Britten-Norman BN-1Britten-Norman BN-1The Britten-Norman BN-1F was a British single-seat ultralight aircraft built in 1950.-Design and development:In 1951 John Britten and Desmond Norman built and flew an ultra-light monoplane, their first aircraft, which made its first flight at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, on 16 May 1951...
Finibee (picture) - Clark-Norman Triloader proposal for a 3 engined transport aircraft With an engine configuration almost identical to that of the Trislander but with three 45kW(600 hp) turboprops. Preliminary performance figures indicated a take-off run at sea level of just 740 ft (225m); long-range cruise speed of 155kt (290 km/h); and a range of 580 km (315 nm) with a payload of 3,000 kg. The large hold could have accommodated up to five LD3 containers. Side doors were proposed for palletised cargo and a front-loading door for containers and bulky goods. Wingspan was 24.4m and length 19.05m.
- NAC FieldmasterNAC Fieldmaster|-See also:-Bibliography:* "". Flight International, 31 October 1987, p.15.* "". Flight International, 19 March 1988, p.12.* "". Flight International, 6-12 December 1989, p.21.*"". Flight International, 6 August 1988, p. 11....
- Croplease Firemaster 65
- NAC FreelanceNAC Freelance-External links:...
- NDN FirecrackerNDN Firecracker-See also:-Bibliography:*Barnett, Cliff. "". Flight International, 31 March 1984. pp.899-902.*Donald, David .The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Leicester, UK:Blitz, 1997. ISBN 1-85605-375-X....
(picture) - Britten-Norman Nymph
- Britten Norman Islander
- Britten-Norman TrislanderBritten-Norman Trislander*LIAT*Montserrat Air Services*Air Queensland*Eagle Airways*Aero Services*Cayman Airways*TAVINA*Vision Air*Bali Int. Air Service*Trans Jamaican Airlines*Aero Cozumel*Great Barrier Airlines*Aero Taxi Intl*Aviones de Panama...
- Britten-Norman Mainlander The aircraft was designed to carry 100 passengers or ten tons of freight or vehicles over 250 miles, 400 km at 200kt, 370 km/hr. At the maximum take-off weight of 62,5001b, 28,500 kg and sea level, ISA plus 20°C, the unfactored take-off distance to 35 ft is 2,250 ft, 685m. It was to be powered by three Rolls-Royce Dart RDa7s rated at 2,280 t.e.h.p.(wet) arranged in a layout similar to that of the company's Trislander design.
- GECI Skylander
- The Norman Weekender, was a folding-wing two-seat biplane designed to fit in a box towed on a trailer, ready to fly in a few minutes.
Patent Design GB 2280882
In 1995 Norman produced a design patent for a STOLSTOLSTOL is an acronym for short take-off and landing, a term used to describe aircraft with very short runway requirements.-Definitions:There is no one accepted definition of STOL and many different definitions have been used by different authorities and nations at various times and for a myriad of...
aircraft of swept wing planform with forward cockpit and pylon mounted propeller of larger than customary diameter with fixed downwardly inclined thrust line. The angle of the thrust line in relation to the incidence of the wing is such that when the wing is approaching its stalling angle in level flight the thrust line is at 45% to the horizontal, and the vertical component of the thrust is contributing to lift while the horizontal component of thrust is providing forward propulsion facilitating a shorter take off and landing run and slower flight speed than attainable with aircraft of like power-to-weight ratio of traditional configuration. The propeller is driven by an engine via a gearbox and shaft. The wing root leading edge could include a locker for luggage, or a compartment for an injured person on a stretcher.