Hawker Siddeley VTOL/STOL Concepts

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My dear Jemiba,

can I ask you if there was a project to Hawker called HS-810
VTOL transport aircraft or not ?.
 
Acording to R.Payne "Struck on the Drawing Board", the HS.810 was a Circulation Control
Rotor designs, with rotors at the wingtips, powered by four RS 660-06 in two pods. Forward
thrust was provided by three RB 211. The concept was axed, because maximum speed was
limited to Mach .70 .
 
And if you look at the "VTOL port" you see where the whole idea fell apart.
By the time you have a site that big, no big deal to add a 2000 foot runway and operate a quiet STOL aircraft instead.
 
Barrington Bond said:
Twin Pegasus VTOL Strike aircraft - number unkown to me at the moment.
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Is the second Pegasus mounted back to back but with the rear one pointing backwards? that reminds me of Dan Raymer's RIVET (something like reverse installation vectored thrust...). i thought he had a patent on it, but this seems to precede it.


http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=238.0
 
From Air Enthusiast Vol.1 No.1 dated June 1971, the Hawker Siddeley H.S.803 compound project, which I couldn't find elsewhere on the forum.
 

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Yep, thanks for the picture and for the date - definitely precedes Raymer's.
 
This list of Hawker Siddeley V/STOL projects was part of the same Air Enthusiast article that gave the H.S.803 artwork posted above:

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For more on the D.H.129 (H.S.129), please see: http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,634.0.html

For more on the H.S. 140 and 141, please check http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,307.0.html
 
Good stuff. Never seen or heard of this before. I wonder what the cross-sectional area distribution of this configuration looks like. Might have some transonic advantages.
 
It would also have reduced 'suck down' with the canard/wing not over the main jets in vertical flight.


Interesting that it shows Sparrows on a UK design of the time. Trim change on missile firing would have been fun!
 
A modification of the Nord Noratlas (maybe based on the N.2508, because of the auxiliary wing tip jet engines)
by fitting lift engine pods was proposed by Hawker Siddeley during 1966. The nose spike would have housed the
forward puffer jet. The type wasn't meant as an operational type, but for development according to NMBR.3.
(from Der Flieger, May 1966)
 

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That's great one,


thank yo my dear Jemiba,now I am in a journey,when I will back home,I will
check about N.2508 and all variants.
 
Jemiba said:
A modification of the Nord Noratlas (maybe based on the N.2508, because of the auxiliary wing tip jet engines)
by fitting lift engine pods was proposed by Hawker Siddeley during 1966. The nose spike would have housed the
forward puffer jet. The type wasn't meant as an operational type, but for development according to NMBR.3.
(from Der Flieger, May 1966)
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Why would someone propose using jet lift engines, yet keep the main propulsion a radial piston engine? You would need to carry two types of fuel. Why not just convert the main propulsion to a turboprop and then it could all use JP-4. Curious.
 
ksimmelink said:
... and then it could all use JP-4. Curious.
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Principally true, but AFAIK this conversion was never meant as a service aircraft, but just as a testbed
for a purely lift negine based VTOL transport. So, fitting additional fuel tanks to the cargo hold perhaps
wouldn't have been regarded as an obstacle, as the test results wouldn't have been impeded.
All what was looked for, was an aircraft, that would be the best basis for a simple conversion, I think.
 
Yes, one of John Fozard's complex lift jet designs (RB.162s and a reheated RB.177). Seems to be undecided on more wing area or more jet lift for carrier landing.


The P.1121 would have been 'fun' on a carrier - narrow undercarriage and low tailscrape angle.
 
The P.1152 looks to be trying to achieve the same design goals as the other OR 346 era strike fighter designs (Vickers 581, Vickers 582, De Havilland DH.127, Blackburn B.123, HS Advanced Projects 1017). That is very slow landing on speed for carrier operations. The variable incidence wing and large vertical thrust provided by the lift engines would enable this heavy aircraft to approach the flight deck at low speeds. On takeoff the main engine can be vectored downwards to add to the vertical thrust as the catapult provides most horizontal thrust. There would appear to be a design option(s) with a larger wing and eight lift engines. Possibly for a RAF land based variant without variable incidence and with full VTOL. The low tailscrap angle is not much of a problem because of the variable incidence wing which provides a few extra degrees of angle of attack without needing to lift the nose and therefore lower the trail.
 
Barrington Bond said:
Joint Study - Fixed wing Bi-Service aircraft.Fixed high aspect ratio wing with twin deflected thrust main engines plus additional lift boost engines.
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Great find Barrington.
 
Interesting to see STO/VL in 1958. It was another 15 years before the term was widely used.
 
Joint Study - Fixed wing Bi-Service aircraft.Fixed high aspect ratio wing with twin deflected thrust main engines plus additional lift boost engines.
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Is its design number unknown?
 
Jemiba said:
A modification of the Nord Noratlas (maybe based on the N.2508, because of the auxiliary wing tip jet engines)
by fitting lift engine pods was proposed by Hawker Siddeley during 1966. The nose spike would have housed the
forward puffer jet. The type wasn't meant as an operational type, but for development according to NMBR.3.
(from Der Flieger, May 1966)
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Also from fzt.haw site;


http://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scholz/dglr/hh/text_2004_04_01_Senkrechtstarter.pdf
 

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Hi,

what was this Hawker Siddeley VTOL Project ?.

http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19620917/16
 

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Read the frigging caption!

Its a generic model by Bristol Siddeley (engine makers) with the basic layout of the P.1154.
 
PaulMM (Overscan) said:
Read the frigging caption!

Its a generic model by Bristol Siddeley (engine makers) with the basic layout of the P.1154.
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OK my dear Paul,and thanks.
 

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