PSC Applied Research Limited

From The Space Library

PSC Applied Research, Ltd., was the Hunting Group's Canadian instrumentation and engineering company. It was formed on March 30th 1951 from the technical division of the Photographic Survey Corporation, which had been set up in 1946 to undertake a contract for mapping 125,000 sq miles of Ontario forests. The Hunting Group had its beginnings in England in 1874 and is one of the forerunners of the British Aircraft Corporation.

PSC Applied Research became a supplier of magnetometers, stereo cameras and plotters for surveying and early flight computers and other instrumentation for aircraft. It also developed a "sky camera" for use by the National Research Council of Canada during the International Geophysical Year.

One of its most successful products was the R-Theta Navigation Flight computer developed in 1956 for use in the Avro CF-100 fighter. PSC was purchased by A.V.Roe Canada in 1957 and evolved into Canadian Applied Research Limited which in turn would be one of the pillars of SPAR.