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.
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-...
3/3. Hawker's test pilot, P.W.S 'George' Bulman, didn’t have flying gloves, but he had borrowed some motorcycle gauntlets and decided to go for it anyway.
The rest is history, hidden for 90 years.
I have a feeling George was not too bothered by what he had done.
Pilots, eh?
The rest is history, hidden for 90 years.
I have a feeling George was not too bothered by what he had done.
Pilots, eh?
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
3/3. Hawker's test pilot, P.W.S 'George' Bulman, didn’t have flying gloves, but he had borrowed some motorcycle gauntlets and decided to go for it anyway.
The rest is history, hidden for 90 years.
I have a feeling George was not too bothered by what he had done.
Pilots, eh?
The rest is history, hidden for 90 years.
I have a feeling George was not too bothered by what he had done.
Pilots, eh?
2/3. Neither Camm, or the 'man from the ministry', were present. To calm them down, the Hurricane's second flight, on the 6th November 1935, has gone down in history as the official first flight.
That was when all the bigwigs were at Brooklands to see it fly.
That was when all the bigwigs were at Brooklands to see it fly.
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
2/3. Neither Camm, or the 'man from the ministry', were present. To calm them down, the Hurricane's second flight, on the 6th November 1935, has gone down in history as the official first flight.
That was when all the bigwigs were at Brooklands to see it fly.
That was when all the bigwigs were at Brooklands to see it fly.
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.
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...
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.
June 10, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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 Britain cancelled its supersonic jump jet.
A great loss? We got the Harrier instead. My talk from 2012:
www.aerosociety.com/news/audio-c...
A great loss? We got the Harrier instead. My talk from 2012:
www.aerosociety.com/news/audio-c...
February 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Sixty years ago today Britain cancelled its supersonic jump jet.
A great loss? We got the Harrier instead. My talk from 2012:
www.aerosociety.com/news/audio-c...
A great loss? We got the Harrier instead. My talk from 2012:
www.aerosociety.com/news/audio-c...
January 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Book news:
www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/new-page-1
Just had the first big, whole book editorial meeting with my editor, Rowland White. Feels real now!
www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/new-page-1
Just had the first big, whole book editorial meeting with my editor, Rowland White. Feels real now!
December 12, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Book news:
www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/new-page-1
Just had the first big, whole book editorial meeting with my editor, Rowland White. Feels real now!
www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/new-page-1
Just had the first big, whole book editorial meeting with my editor, Rowland White. Feels real now!
I, I just took a ride
In a silver machine
In a silver machine
December 7, 2024 at 9:07 PM
I, I just took a ride
In a silver machine
In a silver machine
First day of winter.
December 1, 2024 at 9:11 PM
First day of winter.
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