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THE BOSCOMBE DOWN AVIATION COLLECTION PRESENTATIONS 2025

Chris Hodson talks about a British success story, the BAe Hawk, and particularly the story of XX154 - the first Hawk to fly, from inception to retirement. Hawker Siddeley (Kingston)'s design team's work was rewarded when an MoD competition was won in the early 70's.

Scheduled: 14 January 2025 - 19:00 to 20:30

THE BOSCOMBE DOWN AVIATION COLLECTION

PRESENTATIONS 2025

Our first presentation of the season is ONLINE

Tuesday 14th January 2025

1900hrs

The Hawk Aircraft

Presented by Chris Hodson

Chris’s talk is about a British success story, the BAe Hawk, and particularly the story of XX154 – the first Hawk to fly, from inception to retirement. Hawker Siddeley (Kingston)’s design team’s work was rewarded when an MoD competition was won in the early 70’s. First flight was achieved with XX154 on 21 August 1974.

The original concept included the importance of a base line for the aircraft’s development and export sales. Subsequent perseverance by engineers, marketers, demonstrations by company test pilots, as well as Royal Air Force and Royal Navy pilots, has resulted in excess of 1000 BAE SYSTEMS Hawks operating today.

This talk will be recorded. To attend online please email talks@btinternet.com

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