Nimrod XV232 prepares for its final engine run at Coventry Airport as the preservation group faces urgent decisions about the aircraft's future ahead of the site's 2026 closure.

In the late 1960s, Hawker Siddeley proposed a radical V⁄STOL jetliner capable of vertical and short takeoff using sixteen lift engines embedded in its wings. Designed for dense urban routes, the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Following the end of World War Two, ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: One of the Nimrod’s particularly useful characteristics was the airframe’s large bomb bay that could hold a variety of munitions, including sonobuoys used to detect enemy ...

BTR bids for Hawker Siddeley: Britain`s BTR PLC, an industrial conglomerate, offered about $2.55 billion Friday for Hawker Siddeley Group PLC, a diversified industrial manufacturer. Hawker Siddeley`s ...

Hawker-Siddeley designed the P.1127 around the revolutionary Pegasus engine, once Dale and his team had finalized its design. The design team took great care to minimize the weight of the aircraft ...