Hunting H.126

The Hunting H.126 was a British experimental aircraft designed and built by Hunting Aircraft to test the jet flap, a blown-flap system that routes engine exhaust over the wing flaps to cut take-off and landing speeds. The Ministry of Aviation issued Specification ER.189D, and Hunting won a contract in 1959 to build two aircraft. Only one, serial XN714, was completed. It was a shoulder-wing monoplane with a T-tail, powered by a single Bristol Orpheus turbojet whose exhaust fed sixteen wing nozzles and control nozzles in the tail and wing tips. It flew on 26 March 1963 and made about 100 test flights for the Royal Aircraft Establishment until 1967, was tested by NASA in 1969, was withdrawn in 1972 and is now displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford.