Harrier Info

See, you have a reply on pprune with all you wanted to know apparently. BTW John Farley is a member there too under his name.

It might be an advantage to register and ask here too, especially as you get a few ex harrier pilots in there

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew-57/

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Indeed there is a kestrel thread running at the moment

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/517580-kestrel.html

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Thanks Dave F68, Would it have flown with Gr1 nav attack layout or an earlier fit?

Kestrel was a development of the original P1127 airframe – the last P1127 was externally very similar.

The P1127 (RAF) was a substantial redesign (90%) of the Kestrel into an operational aircraft. The designation appeared when a requirement was placed for a developed Kestrel on cancellation of the P1154.

The Development Batch (of which XV281 was one) were ordered in 1965, and flew in 1966. The contract for production aircraft was placed in early 1967 and at the same time the RAF informed HawkerS that the P1127 (RAF) was to be known as the Harrier. So whilst the aircraft were ordered and first flew as P1127 (RAF)s, they would have been Harriers from early 1967! After that they were generally referred to as DB Harriers.

XV281 first flew on 14/7/1967 and was used by both Hawker Siddely and Rolls Royce for trials before going to the RAE for trials in the late 70s. I’ve probably got more info on file!

for Harrier read Kestrel

I believe it was actually designated P.1127 (RAF). The Harrier name was only used on the production examples.

Prior to Harrier a Tripartite organisation flew the Kestrel – USA UK and West Germany were participating countries.

Also the name Kestrel was used at one point, I think it applied to the pre-production service trials airframes.

I believe it was actually designated P.1127 (RAF). The Harrier name was only used on the production examples.