On the surface Hucknall's not very notable at all... surely there's something to show for 800 years of history? The Hucknall of today was known as Hucknall Torkard until 1916. The first mention of ...

but it was not until the 1950s at Hucknall Aerodrome that the world's first vertical take-off aircraft would come to be. The Flying Bedstead would eventually lead the way to the Hawker P.

Many schools have also been learning about VE Day and the end of the war and Hucknall was no different. At Flying High Academy on Shepherd Street, year six pupils have been learning about the ...

Hucknall-based Torkard Cider ... The aim had been to fill the gap left by closure of the nearby Flying Bedstead pub.

Engineering students at the University of Nottingham have unveiled a working scaled replica of the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig (TMR), better known as the “Flying Bedstead” Built and tested by ...

The LLRV was a bizarre, four-legged flying contraption commonly known as the "Flying Bedstead." NASA used it to simulate moon landings and liftoffs on Earth to prepare for Apollo 11. The firast ...

The Flying Bedstead, also known as the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig, was developed at Hucknall and was the first vertical lift airframe.

On the surface Hucknall's not very notable at all... surely there's something to show for 800 years of history? Hucknall Hucknall - Torkard Hucknall Today The BBC is not responsible for the ...