Archived News Items 2022

News Items that have been on the News page but are no longer current are generally transferred to an archive. As there are generally more announcements of Future event than News each have their own archive page from 2017.

129 November Newsletter 65 Winter 2022 is available online.

12 November David Hassard came across this link displaying very interesting information from airdisplaymuseum on John Farley

12 October Peter Bedford gave a very interesting talk on the 1990 Gulf war 1; it was a much bigger operation than I realised.

13 July David Hassard gave a very illuminating talk ‘A Picture is Worth 10000 Words’  A link to a Video  will be sent to members. David very kindly re-recorded the talk to circumvent the technical issues experienced on the day. Those who heard the talk may like to watch it again, but I am sure everyone will find it interesting. Please respect the rule that this video is only for Members of the Hawker Association and do not pass the link to others. David Priddy

09 March Angela Bailey gave a fascinating talk on the life of her father Frank Murphy “From Fighter Pilot to Test Pilot”.

09 February  Robin Trewinnard-Boyle gave an extremely interesting talk on the UK involvement in the F-35 Flight Test at NAS Patuxent River, MD, including First of Class Flying Trials on HMS Queen Elizabeth. He said the F-45 will do almost everything the Harrier will do; better and is much easier to fly. We have 15% of the world wide F-45 contract which earns us more than what our fleet cost. Unfortunately due to Covid the Zoom broadcast couldn’t take place. A recording is available to Hawker Association members on a YouTube unlisted channel.

01Feb  A few years ago Cranfield University made a video of Ralph Hooper and Michael Pryce has sent me a link members may find interesting. Ralph Hooper, Cranfield College of Aeronautics 1946-48, was in our very first cohort of students in 1946 and went on to become an extremely successful aeronautical engineer. He was the first designer of the Hawker Siddeley P.1127, the vertical-take-off-and-landing aeroplane which evolved into the revolutionary Harrier

5 August Newsletter 64 Summer 2022 PDF is available online.

26 February Newsletter 63 Spring 2022 PDF is available online.

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