page_title: John Fozard
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: John Fozard / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: P.1127(RAF) XV277 (Harrier DB.3, built 1966), the second pre-production Harrier and the oldest Harrier in existence, in the National Museum of Flight in East Fortune, East Lothian, Scotland. It was purchased by National Museums Scotland in 2000. Museum Number EF.2000.1 Nederlands: Hawker Siddeley P/1127, XV277, alias Harrier DB.3 (gebouwd 1966)/ Het tweede pre-productietoestel en de oudste nog bestaande Harrier, in het National Museum of Flight in East Fortune, East Lothian, Schotland. Het toestel werd door het Museum aangekocht in 2000.
context_page_description: John William Fozard, OBE, FRS, FREng, FRAeS was a British aeronautical engineer who helped to design the Hawker Siddeley Harrier.
context_section_description: He worked for Hawker Siddeley from 1950, working under Sydney Camm. In the late 1950s he was working on the supersonic successor to the company's Hawker Hunter, the P.1121, and the twin-seat P.1129. Although advanced designs for their time, these projects were cancelled by the infamous 1957 Defence White Paper, and Hawker concentrated all work on the P.1127, which had been considered less important up to that point.
  From October 1963 he was Chief Designer of the P.1154, which was cancelled in February 1965 (with the BAC TSR-2). He was Chief Designer of the Harrier from 1965 to 1978, taking over from Ralph Hooper. The Harrier entered service with the RAF (at RAF Wittering) in August 1969. The first Sea Harrier (XZ451 – FRS.1) was handed to the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm on 18 June 1979, at a ceremony at BAe Dunsfold (the site had been owned by Hawker Siddeley from 1950), later to be based at RNAS Yeovilton. This version of the Harrier had been given the definitive go-ahead (funding) on 15 May 1975 by Roy Mason, the Barnsley-born Defence Secretary, after being met with government indifference previously.
  The Pegasus engine, which was integral to the aircraft design, was designed by Gordon Lewis and Sir Stanley Hooker.
  From 1984–7 he was Divisional Director of Special Projects at the Military Aircraft Division of British Aerospace, Weybridge. In February 1989 he retired from BAe. He later became the Director of the National Air and Space Museum, and held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, from 1988–9.
  He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS) in 1963. From 1986 to 1987, he was the President of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1987.
caption: The oldest Harrier in existence, built in 1966, at the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian
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