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Tony Buttler has informed me that Chris Farara, former Hawker Aircraft employee, compiler of the Hawker Association newsletter, occasional writer, and diligent archivist of the Brooklands Hawker archive, has passed away. I can only speak from my own experience - Chris was a really nice man, who...

I have a question to the experts. What is the device mounted above the gun sight of the F.6A #XF382 seen on the image below? Is this an additional gun sight camera or an AIM-9 launching device added during the 1976 overhaul by Armstrong Whitworth at Baginton? What was the nomenclature of the...

What it says on the tin...

Thanks to my wallet - from a binder scans that I have tried to clean up and condense the image to get more detail into the 1200 pixel limit. Section 1 Subsonic VTOL aircraft with single B.S. Pegasus engine Fig 1.1 Original P.1127 layout. The straight through hot end is a feature which is...

I've just heard that Harrier and P1216 designer Ralph Hooper passed away yesterday. He was 96, and in my view, Britain's greatest ever aircraft designer. Ralph explained his achievements modestly but clearly to the many who asked. Glad we asked him to do so for a video a few years back...

This is a rough TL sketch. POD is October 20, 1971. http://www.ffaa.net/projects/jaguar/jaguar_fr.htm That day, off Marseille, the Foch is flight testing Jaguar M05, that is: the navalized fifth prototype. As the aircraft is returned to the hangar for maintenance, one mechanic raise alarm...

I have just heard, via the latest Hawker Association newsletter, that Roy Braybrook passed away last June. Another of the great authors who got me, and probably many on this forum, interested in aircraft has gone to the great aviation library in the sky. He was also, of course, a designer in...

In the late 60s the Germans were looking for a replacement for its ground attack Fiat G 91s. As an offset against costs for BAOR and RAF Germany the UK succeeds in selling Harriers to the Bundeswehr and getting Dornier involved in its production and a joint trainer which becomes the Hawk. HS and...

Just wondered why this amazing aircraft doesn't enjoy such a reputation as compared to TSR2? Thinking back to the sixties would it not have made sense to take up the Yorkshire suggestion rather than one from a neighbouring county? After all a supersonic Bucc would have saved developmental...

The F4 Phantom might have failed to materialise as the wonderful plane which the RAF and RN used to fill various gaps from the 60s onwards. In a Phantomless world would P1154 have been developed as planned in 1963 for both RAF and RN or would the Lightning have been developed in its swing wing...

I found this drawing on the net and the only info I know that is was an Avro Bomber Project with 10 engines. Do you guys know anything more on this project?

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Once again everybody I bow down to your wisdom and plead for enlightenment! Having spent an afternoon randomly googling (I really enjoy my current job ;)) I stumbled across the RB.431 entrance on the Skomer site. http://www.skomer.u-net.com/projects/turbines.htm It claims that the engine was...

In Tony Buttler's British Secret Projects: Jet Bombers there is a list of projects by manufacturer. In the Blackburn section P.155 says "Base burning aircraft, 1971". Does anybody have a clue as to what that means? Thanks

Two pics of wind tunnel models found at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry HS Kingston P.1201 for AST.403. Featured in BSP Fighters, with a butterfly tail. This is an alternative version - sorry, no dash number. Also what I think was one version of (there were a lot!) the Hawker...

Over the years the STOVL ability of the Harrier has led to various proposals for ships for it to operate from. First was the VT Harrier Carrier concept of the mid-1970s. 8,000 tons, c. 400ft length at WL, 420 ft flight deck with ski-jump. Electric propulsion powered by 9x5000 hp gas turbine...

Source: Donald Hannah, Flypast Reference Library - Hawker, Key Publishing 1982

AFVG It was a joint Anglo-French project, with British Aerospace leading, for a post TSR.2 strike aircraft. France were never particularly interested in this project; it did however serve as a useful way of getting hold of UK VG technology, which was based on years of research. Note that the...

Hi folks, Here are a couple of civilian VTOL concepts from Hawker Siddley. First the nice little HS.140 business jet: Then the larger HS.141 commuter airliner: Don't have much information on them I'm afraid. Regards, Greg

Thanks to Evan, heres a nice PDF of a British Aerospace Harrier II Plus brochure showing it in RN colours.