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 Refuelling 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 restraining 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
On display in FAA Museum in Hall 4/Leading Edge Exhibition
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Role - Single seat experimental vertical/short take off aircraft
Manufacturers - Hawker Aircraft Ltd
Power plant - One Bristol Pegasus vectored thrust turbofan approx 13,500lb thrust in final version
Wingspan - 24ft 4ins
Length - 49ft
Height - 10ft 3ins
Weight - 14,500lbs max in later version
Max speed - 720mph at 36,000ft
Range -
Armament - Nil
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