Short P.D.49 VTOL fighter

[hesham]

Hi,

anther Shorts VTOL strike aircraft project developed from SC.1.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1961/1961%20-%201200.html

 

[Jemiba]

Looks very similar to the PD.56 .

 

[boxkite]

The model shown in FLIGHT here from another angle of view. It was published in aero 7/1961, but also without any type designation ...

 

[hesham]

Very nice projects my dears Jemiba and Boxkite.

 

[lark]

PD.56 is an excellent find Jemiba.
So we see some Starfighter influence
in the forward fuselage and the air intakes..?

 

[lark]

The design shown us by Hesham and Boxkite is the
Short P.D.49 design of 1960.
The P.D.56 shown by Jemiba was offered by Short to Nato NBMR 3 of 1961-62.
Short worked at that time together with Lockheed on a VTOL variant of the Starfighter.

Flight 2.11.61
AirRevue 1961
BSP Jet Bombers since 1949-Tony Buttler-Midland.

 

[Antonio]

renamed topic

 

[Pioneer]

Interesting!
If I did not know any better, I would have put it down as a Saab project looking at its J35 Draken wing profile!

Regards
Pioneer

 

[Jemiba]

I just noticed, that it looks remarkable similar to the Rolls Royce VTOL ground attack aircraft,
we had here http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,449.60.html (#70)
and here from FLUGWELT 2/1961: ???