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Aviation History
1964
1964 - 1557.PDF
FLIGHT International, 21 May 1964 RUNWAY LENGTH - ZERO Military tactics of the future will call for strike aircraft capable of operating anywhere in the world. Hawker Siddeley have already met this need with the P.1127 which takes-off vertically, or in very short distances with heavy armament loads, from rough unprepared surfaces. The pilot of the P.1127 can take-off from almost any surface with- out causing erosion or debris ingestion, since the thrust from its Bristol Siddeley Pegasus jet is directed downwards only at the moment of take-off. The P.1127 first took to the air more than three years ago and several are now flying. Their logical successor—the supersonic P.1154—is now hpinn riovolnnnH fnr tho D«iral A;* r~.-~.-.
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