UK VTOL Strike Recce Aircraft of 1959

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Hi,

in 1959,the Air Ministry issued a competition for VTOL strike recce aircraft,
the tenders were English Electric P.31 and Gloster P.505,I don't know if
there was anther contenders or not,but I ask for more info about those
two projects.
 
Hi,

the P.31 was VTOL strike recce aircraft project with vectored
thrust concept and swivelling lift jets.
 
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hesham said:
It could be GOR.345 ?.
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No. English Electric P.31 and Gloster P.505 were to GOR.2 for a strike-recce aircraft. That Wiki list gives this as a "VTOL" competition.
But, actually, GOR.2 was for a V/STOL design which assumed primarily aerodynamic lift for take-off. [1]

GOR.2 was also linked to SHAPE (which, in turn, suggests a larger US-funded NATO effort). A non-British design linked to GOR.2 was the Dassault Mirage IIIV ... which tells you that GOR.2 fed into NBMR-3.

[1] STOL High-Lift Design Study: Volume II. Bibliography, Fred May & Colin A. Widdison, The Boeing Company, Dec 1970, pp 147-148, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0724186.pdf

The Royal Air Force and the European Union 1950-1980, Glen Segel, pg 186

Gloster Aircraft since 1917 (pg 400), Derek N. James, pg 400, identified the P.505 as a "STOL tactical strike reconnaissance aircraft to GOR.2" but it is unclear whether the "P.507 VTOL strike reconnaissance aircraft" was at all related.
 

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