The British Aerospace EAP, short for Experimental Aircraft Programme, was a British technology demonstrator that British Aerospace developed as a private venture to research the technologies for a future European combat aircraft and for the Eurofighter Typhoon. It grew out of the earlier Agile Combat Aircraft studies and was announced at the 1983 Paris Air Show as a multinational effort, but West Germany and Italy did not contribute financially, so British public money and British and European private funding paid for it. The only aircraft, serial ZF534, flew on 8 August 1986 on two Turbo-Union RB199 afterburning turbofans from the Tornado ADV, made over 250 sorties until 1991 and is now displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford.
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Power was provided by a pair of Turbo-Union RB199-104 afterburning turbofans
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is a British technology demonstrator aircraft developed by aviation company British Aerospace (BAe) as a private venture
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