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
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.
www.aerosociety.com/news/an-ill-...
www.aerosociety.com/news/an-ill-...
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
June 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Lovely to be quoted in this article.
I wrote this week on the various next-generation fighter jet programmes under way around the world, and why they all seem to be aiming for huge stealthy aircraft with epic range and payload—and epic price tags to match. www.economist.com/science-and-...
The race to build the fighter planes of the future
They can hold more fuel, carry more weaponry and boast more computing power
www.economist.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Lovely to be quoted in this article.
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That one of the characters in Andor goes on to be in Return of the Jedi shows what a weird project it is. Like watching There Will Be Blood and realising the lead character becomes the Fat Controller in Thomas The Tank Engine.
Adult origin stories for kids’ movies are a strange commercial impulse.
Adult origin stories for kids’ movies are a strange commercial impulse.
April 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
That one of the characters in Andor goes on to be in Return of the Jedi shows what a weird project it is. Like watching There Will Be Blood and realising the lead character becomes the Fat Controller in Thomas The Tank Engine.
Adult origin stories for kids’ movies are a strange commercial impulse.
Adult origin stories for kids’ movies are a strange commercial impulse.
April 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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1. And probably of operating an older aircraft design, though if I remember right the SHar /was/ still better than the GR.1/GR.3 when it came to SAS etc.
Either way, amusing that they included the Typhoon.
Bonus image, T.4N/T.8 not having the best of times:
Either way, amusing that they included the Typhoon.
Bonus image, T.4N/T.8 not having the best of times:
April 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
1. And probably of operating an older aircraft design, though if I remember right the SHar /was/ still better than the GR.1/GR.3 when it came to SAS etc.
Either way, amusing that they included the Typhoon.
Bonus image, T.4N/T.8 not having the best of times:
Either way, amusing that they included the Typhoon.
Bonus image, T.4N/T.8 not having the best of times:
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Comparing the SHar to the GR.7/GR.9, this gives a pretty decent illustration of the increased danger that comes from naval operations[1], I /assume/ the 80-84 4.41 is from the Falklands War though.
Alternatively, the take away from this is that the RAF should not have been trusted with the Jaguar.
Alternatively, the take away from this is that the RAF should not have been trusted with the Jaguar.
April 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Comparing the SHar to the GR.7/GR.9, this gives a pretty decent illustration of the increased danger that comes from naval operations[1], I /assume/ the 80-84 4.41 is from the Falklands War though.
Alternatively, the take away from this is that the RAF should not have been trusted with the Jaguar.
Alternatively, the take away from this is that the RAF should not have been trusted with the Jaguar.
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Most people think of helicopter rotorwash as a steady flow, but it's actually quite unsteady, as this cool animation from a new UK CAA study shows: youtu.be/YHIIL-AQ6ZI
For @theaircurrent.com, I wrote about the study's implications for the eVTOL industry: theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatc...
For @theaircurrent.com, I wrote about the study's implications for the eVTOL industry: theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatc...
Outwash Flow Field - 3D View
YouTube video by Sophrodyne Aerospace
youtu.be
April 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Most people think of helicopter rotorwash as a steady flow, but it's actually quite unsteady, as this cool animation from a new UK CAA study shows: youtu.be/YHIIL-AQ6ZI
For @theaircurrent.com, I wrote about the study's implications for the eVTOL industry: theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatc...
For @theaircurrent.com, I wrote about the study's implications for the eVTOL industry: theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatc...
TSR2. Was it an eagle or a turkey?
April 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
TSR2. Was it an eagle or a turkey?
Sixty years ago today the TSR2 was cancelled.
Was it the turkey we all say it is now? Or was it really as great as the hype?
My talk @rafmuseum.bsky.social Cosford youtu.be/6yOwK_Uvwek?...
Was it the turkey we all say it is now? Or was it really as great as the hype?
My talk @rafmuseum.bsky.social Cosford youtu.be/6yOwK_Uvwek?...
TSR-2: A Warning for Tempest? By Dr Michael Pryce MRAeS
YouTube video by Royal Aeronautical Society
youtu.be
April 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Sixty years ago today the TSR2 was cancelled.
Was it the turkey we all say it is now? Or was it really as great as the hype?
My talk @rafmuseum.bsky.social Cosford youtu.be/6yOwK_Uvwek?...
Was it the turkey we all say it is now? Or was it really as great as the hype?
My talk @rafmuseum.bsky.social Cosford youtu.be/6yOwK_Uvwek?...