Hawker P1127
XP980 - Hawker P1127 Built at Kingston
24/02/1963 - First flight at Dunsfold
16/11/1963 - Made a heavy landing
25/11/1963 - Flew again following repairs
11/02/1965 - To Bircham Newton
10/03/1965 - To Dunsfold via RAF West Raynham
14/07/1965 - Grounded
30/12/1965 - Next recorded flight
27/01/1966 - Last flight from Dunsfold
To A&AEE for trials,damaged during practice forced landing,used for spares recovery
1970 - Moved to Tarrant Rushton
03/1970 - Used by Flight Refueling as ground experimental vehicle/barrier trials
03/1971 - Wing returned to Boscombe Down, replaced with wing from Harrier GR1 XV751
1972 - To RAE Bedford for pilotless crash barrier trials
09/1973 - To 71MU at RAF Bicester for conversion to display exhibit (not carried out)
?/? ?/ - To RAF Gaydon for grounds handling training
06/11/1974 - To Bitteswell
08/1975 - To RAE Bedford for Sea Harrier restrainting hook trials
08/1977 - To Tarrant Rushton for Drone braking tests as part of the Sea Vixen D3 programme
09/10/1980 - To School of Aircraft Handling at RNAS Culdrose for dummy deck training and allocated A2700 with engine E4754
1981 - Repainted to look like a Sea Harrier
09/03/1989 - Moved to FAAM to be part of VSTOL Exhibition
13/11/1999 - Moved to the Cobham Hall store.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Role - Single seat experimental vertical/short take off aircraftManufacturers - Hawker Aircraft Ltd
Power plant - One Bristol Pegasus vectored thrust turbofan approx 13,500lb thrust in final version
Wingspan - 24ft 4in
Length - 49ft
Height - 10ft 3ins
Weight - 14,500lb max in later version
Max speed - 720mph at 36,000ft
Range -
Armament - Nil