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Summary: Hunting Percival Jet Provost aircraft Airplane blueprint for the Hunting, Percival, Jet, Provost ... Aviation history and aircraft blueprints/plans. Hunting Percival Jet - The introduction of the Jet engine created new problems in training military pilots. A short term solution was to create training versions of current jet fighters, such as the Gloster Meteor T7 and the De Haviland Vampire T11 . This was not ideal however and in 1953 the Air Ministry produced a requirement for a simple jet trainer suitable for introducing student pilots to jet flying.
The Hunting Percival aircraft company responded to this requirement with a jet conversion of the piston engined Provost trainer. In doing so, the Alvis Leonides piston engine was replaced with an Armstrong Siddely Viper jet engine and a nose wheel undercarriage introduced. The Jet Provost, as the new aircraft was named first flew in 1954 becoming the worlds first basic jet trainer, and began RAF service at No 2 FTS in 1955.
The RAF ordered large quantitities of the more developed Jet Provost T3 in 1957 which introduced tip tanks, a bubble canopy, Martin Baker ejection seats. shorter undercarriage and more powerful Viper jet engines. The T3 was developed into the T4 which had an even more powerful Viper jet. From the late 1950's to the 1990's the Jet Provost was the basic jet trainer for the RAF and was operated by many aerobatic teams during this time.
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Ps... we many times have the Siddeley Viper Turbojet blueprint available as well.
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