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Ralph Hooper, 1926-2022, designer of the Harrier.
He was the first aircraft designer I ever met, and Britain's greatest ever one. RIP. #Harrier
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He was the first aircraft designer I ever met, and Britain's greatest ever one. RIP. #Harrier
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Mike Pryce retweeted
The launch event for my book Jump Jet, with @MRWeatherburn @imperialcollege, is now up.
The limits of AI, @elonmusk's jump jet design and much more. It was a fun day.
Jumpjetpenguin.com
"A superb book" @rorysutherland
youtu.be/nRXVUt4PoYM
The limits of AI, @elonmusk's jump jet design and much more. It was a fun day.
Jumpjetpenguin.com
"A superb book" @rorysutherland
youtu.be/nRXVUt4PoYM
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Mike Pryce retweeted
One politician understood science.
But she did not understand design.
My book, Jump Jet, The Secret History of the Harrier, is out now.
youtu.be/1cQGnYej-nI?is…
But she did not understand design.
My book, Jump Jet, The Secret History of the Harrier, is out now.
youtu.be/1cQGnYej-nI?is…
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1/3. Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the Hawker Hurricane's first flight.
Only it wasn't.
New archive discoveries by volunteers @BrooklandsMuseu show it flew on the 5th of November, not the 6th.
The prototype Hurricane flew after taxi trials. Sydney Camm was furious.
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The launch event for my book Jump Jet, with @MRWeatherburn @imperialcollege, is now up.
The limits of AI, @elonmusk's jump jet design and much more. It was a fun day.
Jumpjetpenguin.com
"A superb book" @rorysutherland
youtu.be/nRXVUt4PoYM
The limits of AI, @elonmusk's jump jet design and much more. It was a fun day.
Jumpjetpenguin.com
"A superb book" @rorysutherland
youtu.be/nRXVUt4PoYM
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Mike Pryce retweeted
Waking up this morning in Atlanta, I’m appalled by what has unfolded since my original post about the shocking audio from the Learjet 60 crash in Florida yesterday.
Missile strikes. DEI conspiracies. People inventing increasingly ludicrous explanations and presenting them as fact while investigators are barely beginning their work. The ignorance is staggering.
But it’s the treatment of this young co-pilot, including by people purporting to be aviation professionals, that I find utterly sickening. Her gender, her fear and her final words have become ammunition for misogyny and ridicule. That’s wrong on so many levels.
I hear a pilot facing something that would terrify any of us, still communicating with air traffic control until the final moments. Thousands of hours in a logbook, or our gender, don’t make us immune to fear, nor allow us to understand everything happening in that cockpit from a few radio calls.
And now, even the measured voices asking for evidence, patience and compassion are themselves receiving hate. What has this platform become when even asking for basic human decency invites abuse.
I expect better from our profession and humans in general. Seeing people who should know better join this grotesque pile-on leaves me deeply disappointed and disgusted.
My heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of everyone lost. Behind every headline and recording are people whose lives have been shattered. They deserve compassion, dignity and answers. Not this.
Missile strikes. DEI conspiracies. People inventing increasingly ludicrous explanations and presenting them as fact while investigators are barely beginning their work. The ignorance is staggering.
But it’s the treatment of this young co-pilot, including by people purporting to be aviation professionals, that I find utterly sickening. Her gender, her fear and her final words have become ammunition for misogyny and ridicule. That’s wrong on so many levels.
I hear a pilot facing something that would terrify any of us, still communicating with air traffic control until the final moments. Thousands of hours in a logbook, or our gender, don’t make us immune to fear, nor allow us to understand everything happening in that cockpit from a few radio calls.
And now, even the measured voices asking for evidence, patience and compassion are themselves receiving hate. What has this platform become when even asking for basic human decency invites abuse.
I expect better from our profession and humans in general. Seeing people who should know better join this grotesque pile-on leaves me deeply disappointed and disgusted.
My heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of everyone lost. Behind every headline and recording are people whose lives have been shattered. They deserve compassion, dignity and answers. Not this.
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One politician understood science.
But she did not understand design.
My book, Jump Jet, The Secret History of the Harrier, is out now.
youtu.be/1cQGnYej-nI?is…
But she did not understand design.
My book, Jump Jet, The Secret History of the Harrier, is out now.
youtu.be/1cQGnYej-nI?is…
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Mike Pryce retweeted
Lovely review of my book, Jump Jet, over on the Secret Projects forum.
'Peak Bill Gunston' is quite the comparison!
secretprojects.co.uk/threads/jump-j…
'Peak Bill Gunston' is quite the comparison!
secretprojects.co.uk/threads/jump-j…
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Lovely review of my book, Jump Jet, over on the Secret Projects forum.
'Peak Bill Gunston' is quite the comparison!
secretprojects.co.uk/threads/jump-j…
'Peak Bill Gunston' is quite the comparison!
secretprojects.co.uk/threads/jump-j…
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Mike Pryce retweeted
Happy Birthday to the Harrier!
On 21st October 1960 Bill Bedford, one leg in plaster after a car crash, climbed into Hawker P.1127 XP831 at Dunsfold, pushed the throttle, and made history.
Read the story behind it in my book, Jump Jet, out now. Jumpjetpenguin.com
On 21st October 1960 Bill Bedford, one leg in plaster after a car crash, climbed into Hawker P.1127 XP831 at Dunsfold, pushed the throttle, and made history.
Read the story behind it in my book, Jump Jet, out now. Jumpjetpenguin.com
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Happy Birthday to the Harrier!
On 21st October 1960 Bill Bedford, one leg in plaster after a car crash, climbed into Hawker P.1127 XP831 at Dunsfold, pushed the throttle, and made history.
Read the story behind it in my book, Jump Jet, out now. Jumpjetpenguin.com
On 21st October 1960 Bill Bedford, one leg in plaster after a car crash, climbed into Hawker P.1127 XP831 at Dunsfold, pushed the throttle, and made history.
Read the story behind it in my book, Jump Jet, out now. Jumpjetpenguin.com
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Mike Pryce retweeted
🇮🇹 Nice shot showing an Italian Air Force F-35B Lightning II and a pair of Italian Navy AV-8B Harrier II+ aircraft flying in formation past the carrier Cavour during exercise Neptune Strike 26.
✈️⚓From sea to sky! F-35B jets from the 🇮🇹 Italian Navy and Air Force conducted long-range missions during #NeptuneStrike 26. Fifth-generation air power meets maritime operations, strengthening Allied interoperability, readiness and deterrence. 💪#ArcticSentry #EasternSentry
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Mike Pryce retweeted
"The Harrier was easy to fly, and also easy to crash" Chris Roberts, test pilot.
Much more from him in my book - Jumpjetpenguin.com
Much more from him in my book - Jumpjetpenguin.com
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Mike Pryce retweeted
Pilots, pioneers, and the pursuit of discovery. Check out the latest issue of Air & Space Quarterly, now available to read for free on our website: s.si.edu/4k5H6av
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Mike Pryce retweeted
Part of the Harrier was designed in the same place the new @Tesla Roadster was.
@elonmusk even wants to fly a proper supersonic jump jet. Maybe that's next?
Read about it in my book. Free sample on Amazon: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX3226B5
@elonmusk even wants to fly a proper supersonic jump jet. Maybe that's next?
Read about it in my book. Free sample on Amazon: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX3226B5
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Part of the Harrier was designed in the same place the new @Tesla Roadster was.
@elonmusk even wants to fly a proper supersonic jump jet. Maybe that's next?
Read about it in my book. Free sample on Amazon: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX3226B5
@elonmusk even wants to fly a proper supersonic jump jet. Maybe that's next?
Read about it in my book. Free sample on Amazon: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX3226B5
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Mike Pryce retweeted
In the 60s Thunderbirds were go, and they were going to go vertically.
To find out what happened see link 👇
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OWFoOr…
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