Dart Aircraft

In Germany he had held a number of responsible technical posts following active service in the Royal Prussian Air Corps in the First World War.

At other periods he was in charge of special projects and did a considerable amount of test flying of prototypes.

Alfred Weyl was also an authority on armament (on which subject he contributed some important articles to Flight) and self-sealing fuel tanks, and his researches included tailless aircraft development, guided-missile design and aircraft plastics technology.

(FLIGHT, 6 March 1959) In 1946 E P Zander and H E Bolton founded the Hawkridge Aircraft Company, as a two-man business with a workshop for glider manufacture and maintenance in the main street of Dunstable, UK (northwest of London) to develop the Venture Glider prototype.

The Dunstable factory closed in 1950, and work carried on at Denham (London) for two years before the company dissolved and its founders went their separate ways.