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 ...olness, even hostility, to a guarded
enthusiasm to the final acceptance as a competitive tool
of major importance, which no major carrier could afford
to be without. And the Comet's successor, the Nimrod,
which first flew on May 23, 1968, thus climaxing a decade
of design studies of Comet and Trident derivatives to
replace the Shackleton, is likely to be in service well into
593
the 1980s—...
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 ...504 FLIGHT International, 20 November 197
AEW Nimrod gets into top gear
AFTER several years of low-key development, a recent increase in
Government funding has accelerated
work on the airborne early-warning
(AEW) version of Hawker Siddeley's ...
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 ...EFENCE
France joins UK Nimrod v Sentry fight
LONDON
The UK Ministry of Defence
has locked Boeing and GEC
Avionics in a head-to-head
contest for the Royal Air
Force's airborne early warn
ing contract.
From a list of ...
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 ...e same
time, the P-3's range and
endurance far exceeds
that of the E-2 while the
aircraft burns one third the
fuel of the E-3 for a similar
radius of action.
Grumman offers
options
A Hawkeye/Nimrod hybrid is
among the airborne early
warning options being offered
by Grumman to the Royal
Air Force. Its 11 Nimrod
AEW.3s could be fitted with
the E-2C radar system for
less than $600 mil...
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 ...LIGHT International, 12 March (977 633
AEW Nimrod roll-out
J. M. RAMSDEN in Manchester
IN THE continuing absence of a col lective Nato commitment to a Boeing E-3A Awacs fleet, the
United Kingdom "should now forgo
further delay and look aft...
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 ...Force range from the F-4C, of which the
SAF has 36, down to the North American
T-6 Texan, one of which is seen here. These
aircraft operate from Las Palmas and are
used for basic flying training
Nimrod and the unemployment problem
THE BRITISH Ministry of Defence is to
order an additional squadron of Haw
ker Siddeley Nimrod long-range mari
time reconnaissance aircraft for the
RAF, it was ...
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 ...84 FLIGHT International, S October 1967
Test Flying
the Nimrod
By J. G. HARRISON*
The prototype Nimrod retracting its undercarriage during climb-out "Flight" photograph
BASED ON THE COMET COMMERCIAL AIRLINER, yet with adifferent shape, different engines an...
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 ...e those of Mr
Gilbert Whitehead, executive director and chief engineer of
ILLUSTRATED WITH 'FLIGHT' PHOTOGRAPHS & DRAWINGS
Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Manchester, responsible for the
development of Nimrod, the world's first jet-propelled maritime
reconnaissance aircraft, now entering service in the Royal Air
Force.
Ex-Shackleton 3 crews of No 18 (Maritime) Group of RAF
Strike Command will th...
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 ...LIGHT International, 7 January 1978
AEW Nimrod radar
reaches full power
N ow about six months into its flight-development programme, the
airborne early warning (AEW) radar
for Nimrod is about to be operated at
full power for the first ...
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 ...32 FLIGHT (nternat/ona/, 26 July I9SO
Nimrod AEW avionics
integration complete
MARCONI AVIONICS has completed
integration of the mission system
avionics (MSA) for the Royal Air
Force's Nimrod airborne early warn
ing (AEW) aircraft. ...
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 ...EFENCE
RAF wants AEW Nimrod axed
LONDON
The Royal Air Force is press
ing the new UK Defence
Minister, George Younger, to
scrap the Nimrod Airborne
Early Warning aircraft and to
buy six Boeing E-3s instead.
Younger...
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 ...
over a three-year period. The missile
itself is about 8ft (2.4m) long and 1ft
(0.3m) in diameter, weighs about 5001b
(226kg) and is self-homing with TV
guidance.
THE FIRST OF 38 Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
maritime reconnaissance/strike aircraft
was handed over to the RAF at the
manufacturer's Woodford, Cheshire, air
field on October 2. Receiving it from
the deputy managing director of Hawke...
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 ...JCHT International, 12 September 1949
Left, the first production Nimrod—0 sub's-eye view of the huge
weapon bay, which is built on to the outside of the Comet-type
fuselage by adding unpressurised fairings. Above, the nerve centre
of the aeroplane is the routine an...
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 ...LIGHT International, 12 September 1974 301
Military
aircraft
Progress with the Mk 2 Nimrod
Every 21 days a new nuclear sub
marine slides down the ways at one
of the USSR's shipyards, so the mari
time threat is accepted as growing
all the time. When the Hawker Sid-
deley Nimrod M...
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and control network—the Nimrod
airborne early warning (AEVV) air
craft is, a .'*?g>jly Hfttoual projec;.
fnd as • -nf.: a massive
investment—of money and confidence
—in British technology.
Nimrod AEW owes its existence...
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 ...information. In this way data on
targets detected by aircraft, ships
and ground stations can be supplied
to all members of the network, giving
each a complete picture of the tac
tical situation. Nimrod AEW will be
able to communicate with Awacs,
Royal Navy ships and the new UK
air defence ground environment
(Ukadge). The eventual datalink will
be the spread-spectrum, counter-
measures-re...
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 ...87
FLIGHT
International.
13 ]une 1968
HAWKER SIDDELEY NIMROD MR.1
By MICHAEL WILSON
WE SEARCH AND STRIKE." The one-time unofficial mottoof Coastal Command is nowhere more applicablethan in the field of anti-submarine warfare. It is
probably not too much ...
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 ...h 1977
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Long-awaited companion to Aerospatiale's
Rallye, the T6./0 is seen here following its
first flight from Tarbes Lourdes airfield on
February 23 (see page 5IS)
AEW Nimrod
roll-out
THE AEW Nimrod development air
craft was due to be rolled out at
Hawker Siddeley Woodford last Tues
day, March 1. The aircraft is a former
RAE Comet airframe with the forward
AE...
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 ...UCHT tnt§rnatt$.-ial, ' PrhruQr* l9.Bl 355
"V *
Biecfa of Nimrod AEW is based en
themselves an- modified Nimrod
MR.Is—although seven of them have
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/tt- ii»4 •_'* «, of tjie iip'ji))( S;'S-
. the improved
mts suite use...
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 ...ultiple birdstrike
brought down
Nimrod
The extremely skilful crash-
landing of a Nimrod saved
the lives of most of its crew
after the aircraft suffered a
multiple birdstrike on lift-off.
On November 17, 1980, a
Nimrod MR.2, XV...
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