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The Harrier — an engineering commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. W. Fozard
J. W. Fozard*
Affiliation:
Hawker Siddeley Aviation Limited, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey
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Extract

“An art can only be learned in the workshop of those who are winning their bread by it”

Samuel Butler

The first drawing showing a recognisable Harrier-type configuration was produced in the Project Office at Hawker Aircraft Limited, Kingston, in October 1957 (Fig. 1).

During the next year the design of this P1127 project was refined by detailed study and the final BE53 engine configuration was settled between the Hawker Team led by the late Sir Sydney Camm, and the Team at Bristol Aero Engines Ltdf led by Dr. S. G. Hooker. Hawker worked on a private venture basis and Bristol proceeded, on manufacture as well as design, with 75% backing from the USA by the Mutual Weapons Development Programme Agency in Paris.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 73 , Issue 705 , September 1969 , pp. 769 - 788
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1969 

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References

Main Lecture given before the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Branch of the Society on 26th February 1969.

Note on page 769 * Now Hawker Siddeley Aviation Limited (HSA).

Note on page 769 † Subseguently (1959) Bristol Siddeley Engines Limited, and (since 1968) Rolls Royce Ltd, Bristol Engines Division.