page_title: Paul Hopkins (pilot)
section_title: British Aerospace
hierarchical_section_title: Paul Hopkins (pilot) / Career / British Aerospace
caption_attribution_description: c/n DA-2. Built 1993, first flight 6th April 1994. First British built Typhoon. Flew only as a trials aircraft, initially with RB199 engines (as in Tornado) but later with EF200s. Last flight 29th January 2007. Total flying time 614hrs 44mins. Arrived at Hendon in January 2008 and suspended in the Milestone of Flight Hall, replacing the plastic mock-up previously on display. RAF Museum, Hendon, London, UK. 22-3-2015
context_page_description: Paul Anthony Hopkins was a British aviator, and the former Chief Test Pilot of British Aerospace in the 1990s.
context_section_description: He became Chief Test Pilot of British Aerospace in 1997. He stopped flying in 2005.
  He was the first to go at twice the speed of sound with the Eurofighter 2000 (DA2 or ZH588) in February 1998. The Eurofighter 2000 was a £40bn project. He was the first to refuel the aircraft, with a VC-10 tanker aircraft over the Irish Sea. At the time, Britain intended to buy 232 Eurofighter aircraft, and for the aircraft to enter service in 2002. 
  He was Project Pilot from 1985-88 for the British Aerospace Hawk 200. He was the first to fly the Hawk Mk66 on 7 April 1989. He was the first to fly the Hawk 128, a BAE Systems Hawk with much-improved open architecture avionics and mission computers on Wednesday 27 July 2005 in Lancashire; the aircraft has a Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk951 engine.
  He became Project Director of the Advanced Jet Trainer (Hawk T2).
caption: Eurofighter EF2000 ZH588[3], the first British Eurofighter prototype, seen in March 2015 at the Milestones of Flight gallery at the RAF Museum; its first flight was on 6 April 1994[4], being at the RAF Museum since January 2008, with a flying time of 614 hours; the Eurofighter (DA1) first flew from Ingolstadt Manching Airport on 27 March 1994 by Peter Weger, the DASA chief test pilot
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