ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 55594
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| Date: | Friday 23 April 1971 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1 |
| Owner/operator: | 20 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | XV798 |
| MSN: | 712048 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | RAF Wildenrath -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| RAF Wildenrath (WID/EDUW) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Suffered a very heavy vertical landing at Wildenrath, West Germany. The pilot ejected. Allocated to ground instruction at Shoeburyness; used by Rolls-Royce as a static engine test bed for a supersonic variant of the Harrier
later to preservation and display at the Bristol Aero Collection at Kemble, England. The Harrier airframe arrived at The Helicopter Museum at Weston-super-Mare on 31st October 2012. According to its current owners:
"The test rig uses a much modified airframe with the nose and tail of one Harrier (XV798) and the wings of another (XW264), married to a specially-built centre section to house a vectored-thrust Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine, modified with plenum chamber burning (PCB). A form of reheat, whereby fuel is mixed with unburnt oxygen in the engine exhaust to provide a ramjet effect, PCB can double the engine thrust but also results in much higher exhaust temperatures"
Sources:
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1972/1972%20-%201937.html
http://www.demobbed.org.uk/aircraft.php?type=547
http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/harrierpcb.htm
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/experimental_jump_jet_is_museum_s_new_addition_1_1675817
http://web.archive.org/web/20161217162442/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk:80/aircraft_by_type/harrier/harrier.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Dec-2008 11:10 | harro | Updated |
| 07-Jul-2011 01:54 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Apr-2013 14:25 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
| 15-May-2013 16:44 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 27-Mar-2020 06:53 | Ian | Updated [Total fatalities] |
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