Unicraft HS.P.1127 "HSH"

[hole in the ground]

http://www.unicraft.biz/on/hs1127/hs1127.htm

I have seen this model a few times over the years popping up in my random link clicking. Only recently though I've tried looking for any background to it and have so far turned up nothing. Can anyone confirm or deny that this was a genuine project/proposal/speculative drawing? If not does anyone know where unicraft got the concept from?

Cheers

 

[flateric]

It was real project, prepared by Ralph Hooper at Kingston in March, 1957.

Some of the references
http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/4.868634
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Modern-Combat-Aircraft-13-Harrier/dp/B002L4KSQO

 

[hole in the ground]

Cheers flateric!