Mike Pryce
@mikepryce.bsky.social
Writing a book jump jets and digital tech.
Pre-order at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411/jump-jet-by-pryce-michael/9780241738078
Pre-order at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411/jump-jet-by-pryce-michael/9780241738078
61 years since the Hawker Siddeley P.1154 supersonic jump jet got the chop.
The Labour government minister that cancelled it called the British aircraft industry "mentally retarded children"!
More in my book: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
The Labour government minister that cancelled it called the British aircraft industry "mentally retarded children"!
More in my book: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
February 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM
61 years since the Hawker Siddeley P.1154 supersonic jump jet got the chop.
The Labour government minister that cancelled it called the British aircraft industry "mentally retarded children"!
More in my book: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
The Labour government minister that cancelled it called the British aircraft industry "mentally retarded children"!
More in my book: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
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Born in Essex 100 years ago today, Ralph Hooper OBE is the unsung giant of British aviation. 🇬🇧 As the Chief Designer of the Harrier Jump Jet, he gave the UK a technological edge that changed the course of history in the Falklands.
January 30, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Born in Essex 100 years ago today, Ralph Hooper OBE is the unsung giant of British aviation. 🇬🇧 As the Chief Designer of the Harrier Jump Jet, he gave the UK a technological edge that changed the course of history in the Falklands.
Born in Essex 100 years ago today, Ralph Hooper OBE is the unsung giant of British aviation. 🇬🇧 As the Chief Designer of the Harrier Jump Jet, he gave the UK a technological edge that changed the course of history in the Falklands.
January 30, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Born in Essex 100 years ago today, Ralph Hooper OBE is the unsung giant of British aviation. 🇬🇧 As the Chief Designer of the Harrier Jump Jet, he gave the UK a technological edge that changed the course of history in the Falklands.
January 23, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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We've heard that paper 📄 is making a comeback. Dr. @mikepryce.bsky.social, writing for the @aerosociety.bsky.social, makes the best case we've heard so far supporting this assertion. This, and the thought of that evocative 'old paper' smell, which we raiders find oddly intoxicating. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇
Raiders of the Lost Archives
Are today’s engineers and researchers missing a trick by not visiting the dusty paper archives of old? Aviation historian Dr MICHAEL PRYCE thinks so.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
We've heard that paper 📄 is making a comeback. Dr. @mikepryce.bsky.social, writing for the @aerosociety.bsky.social, makes the best case we've heard so far supporting this assertion. This, and the thought of that evocative 'old paper' smell, which we raiders find oddly intoxicating. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🥇
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"Almost none of the material in archives is available online. It is invisible to artificial intelligence and large language models" How today's aerospace designers can learn from the past #avgeek www.aerosociety.com/news/raiders...
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Almost none of the material in archives is available online. It is invisible to artificial intelligence and large language models" How today's aerospace designers can learn from the past #avgeek www.aerosociety.com/news/raiders...
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Boomless supersonic airliners & Mach 2+ superfighters - why there is nothing new under the sun - IF you know where to look. #avgeek ow.ly/i1yG50XI3Ag
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Boomless supersonic airliners & Mach 2+ superfighters - why there is nothing new under the sun - IF you know where to look. #avgeek ow.ly/i1yG50XI3Ag
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A fighter jet based on Concorde?
Read all about it, and other treasures from the archives that can speed up innovation in the skies.
www.aerosociety.com/news/raiders...
Read all about it, and other treasures from the archives that can speed up innovation in the skies.
www.aerosociety.com/news/raiders...
Raiders of the Lost Archives
Are today’s engineers and researchers missing a trick by not visiting the dusty paper archives of old? Aviation historian Dr MICHAEL PRYCE thinks so.
www.aerosociety.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
A fighter jet based on Concorde?
Read all about it, and other treasures from the archives that can speed up innovation in the skies.
www.aerosociety.com/news/raiders...
Read all about it, and other treasures from the archives that can speed up innovation in the skies.
www.aerosociety.com/news/raiders...
A fighter jet based on Concorde?
Read all about it, and other treasures from the archives that can speed up innovation in the skies.
www.aerosociety.com/news/raiders...
Read all about it, and other treasures from the archives that can speed up innovation in the skies.
www.aerosociety.com/news/raiders...
Raiders of the Lost Archives
Are today’s engineers and researchers missing a trick by not visiting the dusty paper archives of old? Aviation historian Dr MICHAEL PRYCE thinks so.
www.aerosociety.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
A fighter jet based on Concorde?
Read all about it, and other treasures from the archives that can speed up innovation in the skies.
www.aerosociety.com/news/raiders...
Read all about it, and other treasures from the archives that can speed up innovation in the skies.
www.aerosociety.com/news/raiders...
The wing has now been added too.
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The wing has now been added too.
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The British Firefox? Revealed for the first time - a Mach 2 BAe Concorde-fighter from the 1980s - ONLY in the latest issue of AEROSPACE - December 2025' #avgeek ow.ly/jiKr50XAuOH
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The British Firefox? Revealed for the first time - a Mach 2 BAe Concorde-fighter from the 1980s - ONLY in the latest issue of AEROSPACE - December 2025' #avgeek ow.ly/jiKr50XAuOH
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Britain's Firefox, the BAe Stiletto.
My article on the secrets still in aviation archives, and how to learn from them, in this month's Aerospace magazine.
Much more in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
My article on the secrets still in aviation archives, and how to learn from them, in this month's Aerospace magazine.
Much more in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Britain's Firefox, the BAe Stiletto.
My article on the secrets still in aviation archives, and how to learn from them, in this month's Aerospace magazine.
Much more in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
My article on the secrets still in aviation archives, and how to learn from them, in this month's Aerospace magazine.
Much more in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
Britain's Firefox, the BAe Stiletto.
My article on the secrets still in aviation archives, and how to learn from them, in this month's Aerospace magazine.
Much more in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
My article on the secrets still in aviation archives, and how to learn from them, in this month's Aerospace magazine.
Much more in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Britain's Firefox, the BAe Stiletto.
My article on the secrets still in aviation archives, and how to learn from them, in this month's Aerospace magazine.
Much more in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
My article on the secrets still in aviation archives, and how to learn from them, in this month's Aerospace magazine.
Much more in my forthcoming book www.penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
Hugely honoured to be awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society Team Silver Medal with Dr Richard Brown for our work on helicopter and eVTOL downwash and outwash.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Hugely honoured to be awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society Team Silver Medal with Dr Richard Brown for our work on helicopter and eVTOL downwash and outwash.
www.aerosociety.com/news/an-ill-...
www.aerosociety.com/news/an-ill-...
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1/3. Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the Hawker Hurricane's first flight.
Only it wasn't.
New archive discoveries by volunteers at Brooklands Museum show it flew on the 5th of November, not the 6th.
The prototype Hurricane flew after taxy trials. Sydney Camm was furious.
Only it wasn't.
New archive discoveries by volunteers at Brooklands Museum show it flew on the 5th of November, not the 6th.
The prototype Hurricane flew after taxy trials. Sydney Camm was furious.
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
1/3. Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the Hawker Hurricane's first flight.
Only it wasn't.
New archive discoveries by volunteers at Brooklands Museum show it flew on the 5th of November, not the 6th.
The prototype Hurricane flew after taxy trials. Sydney Camm was furious.
Only it wasn't.
New archive discoveries by volunteers at Brooklands Museum show it flew on the 5th of November, not the 6th.
The prototype Hurricane flew after taxy trials. Sydney Camm was furious.
1/3. Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the Hawker Hurricane's first flight.
Only it wasn't.
New archive discoveries by volunteers at Brooklands Museum show it flew on the 5th of November, not the 6th.
The prototype Hurricane flew after taxy trials. Sydney Camm was furious.
Only it wasn't.
New archive discoveries by volunteers at Brooklands Museum show it flew on the 5th of November, not the 6th.
The prototype Hurricane flew after taxy trials. Sydney Camm was furious.
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
1/3. Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the Hawker Hurricane's first flight.
Only it wasn't.
New archive discoveries by volunteers at Brooklands Museum show it flew on the 5th of November, not the 6th.
The prototype Hurricane flew after taxy trials. Sydney Camm was furious.
Only it wasn't.
New archive discoveries by volunteers at Brooklands Museum show it flew on the 5th of November, not the 6th.
The prototype Hurricane flew after taxy trials. Sydney Camm was furious.
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The coolest secret fighter Britain ever cancelled?
Volunteers at Brooklands Museum installed the Hawker P1121 'Hurricane II' earlier this week.
If the P1121 had flown, there would have been no Harrier.
My forthcoming book tells the tale penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
Volunteers at Brooklands Museum installed the Hawker P1121 'Hurricane II' earlier this week.
If the P1121 had flown, there would have been no Harrier.
My forthcoming book tells the tale penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The coolest secret fighter Britain ever cancelled?
Volunteers at Brooklands Museum installed the Hawker P1121 'Hurricane II' earlier this week.
If the P1121 had flown, there would have been no Harrier.
My forthcoming book tells the tale penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
Volunteers at Brooklands Museum installed the Hawker P1121 'Hurricane II' earlier this week.
If the P1121 had flown, there would have been no Harrier.
My forthcoming book tells the tale penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
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It's 65 years since the first Harrier hovered.
Jump jets seem old, but the Harrier has a secret.
Modern digital tools say the Harrier is impossible. Even AI.
Digital tech can clip your wings.
The Harrier shows you how to fly free.
Find out more: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
Jump jets seem old, but the Harrier has a secret.
Modern digital tools say the Harrier is impossible. Even AI.
Digital tech can clip your wings.
The Harrier shows you how to fly free.
Find out more: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
October 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's 65 years since the first Harrier hovered.
Jump jets seem old, but the Harrier has a secret.
Modern digital tools say the Harrier is impossible. Even AI.
Digital tech can clip your wings.
The Harrier shows you how to fly free.
Find out more: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
Jump jets seem old, but the Harrier has a secret.
Modern digital tools say the Harrier is impossible. Even AI.
Digital tech can clip your wings.
The Harrier shows you how to fly free.
Find out more: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
It's 65 years since the first Harrier hovered.
Jump jets seem old, but the Harrier has a secret.
Modern digital tools say the Harrier is impossible. Even AI.
Digital tech can clip your wings.
The Harrier shows you how to fly free.
Find out more: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
Jump jets seem old, but the Harrier has a secret.
Modern digital tools say the Harrier is impossible. Even AI.
Digital tech can clip your wings.
The Harrier shows you how to fly free.
Find out more: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
October 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's 65 years since the first Harrier hovered.
Jump jets seem old, but the Harrier has a secret.
Modern digital tools say the Harrier is impossible. Even AI.
Digital tech can clip your wings.
The Harrier shows you how to fly free.
Find out more: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
Jump jets seem old, but the Harrier has a secret.
Modern digital tools say the Harrier is impossible. Even AI.
Digital tech can clip your wings.
The Harrier shows you how to fly free.
Find out more: penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
65 today and even the grandkids are near retirement!
Soon the secret story of the Harrier can be told at last.
penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
Soon the secret story of the Harrier can be told at last.
penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
65 today and even the grandkids are near retirement!
Soon the secret story of the Harrier can be told at last.
penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
Soon the secret story of the Harrier can be told at last.
penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
You can now pre-order my book, Jump Jet: The Secret History of the Harrier, out July 2026.
Short version: Digital is not enough to make a jump jet. You need exceptional people.
penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
From V-1s in 1944 to the #F35 in 2008, it's a big story, never told before.
Short version: Digital is not enough to make a jump jet. You need exceptional people.
penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
From V-1s in 1944 to the #F35 in 2008, it's a big story, never told before.
October 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
You can now pre-order my book, Jump Jet: The Secret History of the Harrier, out July 2026.
Short version: Digital is not enough to make a jump jet. You need exceptional people.
penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
From V-1s in 1944 to the #F35 in 2008, it's a big story, never told before.
Short version: Digital is not enough to make a jump jet. You need exceptional people.
penguin.co.uk/books/468411...
From V-1s in 1944 to the #F35 in 2008, it's a big story, never told before.
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"Such a [tech demonstrator] may be particularly important with stealth... Stealth is conceptually straightforward but it makes everything else bloody difficult." How the UK's new Flying Combat Air Demonstrator will de-risk #GCAP #avgeek #Tempest ow.ly/ZbjY50Wt6ww
July 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"Such a [tech demonstrator] may be particularly important with stealth... Stealth is conceptually straightforward but it makes everything else bloody difficult." How the UK's new Flying Combat Air Demonstrator will de-risk #GCAP #avgeek #Tempest ow.ly/ZbjY50Wt6ww