BAE Systems CAFD (Combat Air Flying Demonstrator)

[timmymagic]

6 min long video on CAFD at the BAE Systems link on the below tweet (with shortened video attached).

https://twitter.com/x/status/2087547407554732405

View: https://x.com/BAESystemsAir/status/2087547407554732405

 

[snne]

6 min long video on CAFD at the BAE Systems link on the below tweet (with shortened video attached).

https://twitter.com/x/status/2087547407554732405

View: https://x.com/BAESystemsAir/status/2087547407554732405

"...This is the first manned demonstrator that the UK has done since the 1980s.

...My grandad actually worked on that programme."

 

[WatcherZero]

My grandad was in the Fleet Air Arm and was a test mechanic for the Harrier prototypes in the 60's and 70's. Sadly died in his early 50's before I was born. Got a gold watch for 25 years service from British Aerospace even though he actually died a year or two short.