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Pakistan Aeronautical Complex

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Pakistan Aeronautical Complex was established 1978. Comprises four factories: Aircraft Manufacturing Factory constructs the Saab MF117 Safari Supporter under license as the Mushshak and Super Mushshak, and is partnered with Hongdu and AVIC of China in developing and producing the K-8 Karakorum jet trainer and light-attack aircraft. Other factories are Kamra Avionics and Radar Factory, Mirage Rebuild Factory and F-6 Rebuild Factory (the last being the oldest factory of the group), for manufacturing components and overhauling Pakistan’s Chinese-supplied combat aircraft.

Pagé-Light

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Victor W Pagé (nee: Pager) & Oliver Light, Farmingdale NY.

In 1909 Victor W Pagé & Oliver Light built a biplane. It was designed by the founder of Pagé aviation mechanic training schools, Victor W Pagé, and author of several popular technical aviation books c.1918-35.

Packard-Le Pere

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USA
Captain Le Pere of the French Aviation mission to the U.S.A. designed a two-seat fighter, the LUSAC-11 (Le Pere United States Army Combat), which was built by the Packard Motor Car Company in 1918. Thirty LUSAC-11 s with Liberty engines and three LUSAC-21 s with Bugatti engines were built, but contracts for quantity production were cancelled at end of First World War.

Packard

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Packard Motor Co
Packard was founded in 1899 by two brothers, James Ward Packard (5 November 1863 – 20 March 1928) and William Doud Packard (November 3, 1861 – November 11, 1923) of Warren, Ohio who ran the Packard Electric Company. In 1926 about 20 New York business men, including James Packard, and a group of US Navy officers expressed an interest in building an airplane designed to break the standing air speed record. Navy officials agreed that they would finance the proposal when funds became available. The aircraft was to be completed in time to participate in the 1927 Schneider Trophy Race, which would be held in Italy.

The engine was designed by Navy Captain Lionel Melville Woolson, an aeronautical engineer at the Packard Motor Company of Detroit. The engine was an “X” configured design similar to one upright and one inverted V-12 engine mounted on the same crankshaft with a common crankcase. With 5.375 in (136.5 mm) bore and 5 in (130 mm) stroke, the resulting displacement was 2,775 cu in (45.47 l). The Packard X-2775 engineering involved in the design of the crankshaft, single piece crankcase and the master/slave rod system was very complex.