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Who can flesh this lot out? 1954: Sperry/UK, licence from Sperry/US: intended for (to be) Blue Streak. Bracknell clean room. Abandoned for: 3/57: Elliott licence from Bosch Arma (ATLAS kit). Rochester clean room. B Streak died 13/4/60 but INS work continued for Blue Steel. 1957: Ferranti...

Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article describing the BAC X-Eleven "project" for a (then) new technology short-medium range jet airliner with CFM-56 engines. This "project" has a wider fuselage cross-section than the standard BAC 1-11. I believe this was the final attempt to make a stand-alone...

I add the picture, for a direct view of this twin-boom project:

Hello, I am looking for any information concerning the 2 tailless military projects, refered as "Pterodactyl II" and "Pterodactyl III", presented by Geoffrey HILL to the Air Minitry in 1925-1927 , after the successful tests of his first powered "Pterodactyl" (aircraft now on show at the Science...

Hi all, I search for drawing of some Hawker fighter projects. Hope you can help: 1) Hawker Henley Escort fighter conversion 2) Hawker Henley Close Support Bomber 3) Hawker Typhoon with Turbo-Supercharger 4) Hawker Tempest with Bristol Centaurus 5) Hawker Tempest Mk.I with Sabre IV 6)...

Hi all, I search for a good 3view drawing of the Hawker Tempest III or IV. Thanks for your help. Maveric

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12281640 Here is a sad story. :(

Also found in the Wallpaper Books at Brooklands. The fairly conventional 1187-5 The more radical 1187-3 The enormous 1187-9 (that appears to be a Harrier to the same scale!) All I've been able to find out about them is from harrier.org which dates the HS 1187 project at 1970 and...

Hawker Siddeley Dynamics designed an unmanned interceptor in the early 1970s. The small canard delta wing aircraft was powered by a Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan, equipped with an air intercept radar, and armed with a single Sky Flash AAM and two AIM-9C or SRAAM AAMs. The drone would be launched...

Not one I'd heard of before. A light transport design with hints of Buccaneer: [link no longer active]

Today it is 50 years since the first Hawker P.1127 hovered, on 21st of October 1960. Despite the recent news that the UK is retiring its fleet the US Marine Corps, Spanish Navy, Italian Navy and Indian Navy continue to operate it, and it is likely that the Harrier will still be in service for...

Latest stories are that the entire RAF Tornado fleet may be retired. The £7.5bn 'saved' may help pay for a Trident replacement. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298871/RAF-Tornado-fleet-faces-axe-bid-save-7bn.html This is still speculative (the 'leak' was hardly an agreed policy...

Model of Armstrong Whitworth AW.56 Source: http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/FW/RAF-fw.htm

We may need a thread dedicated to Armstrong Whitworth aircraft. Here is the AW drawing for Armstrong Whitworth B.1/39. Drawing date is 3/6/39. Dwg No. is AW9186? (last number is cut off in this photo) I have also added a favorite detail image, showing the location of twelve large bombs. * I had...

Hi All, Tried the search function and didn't find anything, Likewise tried searches on the net, zilch.. nada... I am after a drawing of the gloster F9/37 with the peregrine engines fitted, anyone seen any, or know of a link ? cheers Jerry

Having started this discussion in Re 2000 topic, I decided to realize a profile of the Caproni Ca-313 in RAF 1940 camouflage. The camo is based upon that one standard for Blenheim Mk1 supposing that RAF would utilize the Caproni in the same role of light bomber/recce. In this case I suppose...

Apparently no-one has yet tackled the subject on this forum, so here is my contribution. After days of research, it seems that there is no chance of ever filling the gaps in this list as even the sources of the time and the resources available do not give the type numbers for many A.W.A...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/25/russia.uk.intercepts/index.html?hpt=T2 Is this just payback for all the times we did it to them over the years?

I have a question based on a comment one of my professors made whilst I was still at University relating to the Yellow Sun and the Avro Vulcan. The suggestion was that for the Yellow Sun Mk2 the decision was taken to reuse the the Mk1 casing despite the fact that it was considerably oversized...