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Many many moons ago as a young apprentice at Hurn (Then still a part of the old Weybridge division of British Aerospace) i recall having a conversation on the Vanguard with an old hand who's name is lost in the distance of time. it covered the a lot of ground, he did go into quite some detail of an MPA variant that was put into a design proposal as the BAC offering that lost out to HS. Although broadly similar to the P-3 Orion, the Vanguard was a far superior aircraft in many respects and certainly better suited as an airframe for low level patrol work than the Comet4 which of course was a high level cruising airframe. I believe it is correct to say it went through initial design and went to model mock up for presentation before being rejected in favour of the Nimrod.

[QUOTE="stuanliz, post: 66467, member: 3367"] Many many moons ago as a young apprentice at Hurn (Then still a part of the old Weybridge division of British Aerospace) i recall having a conversation on the Vanguard with an old hand who's name is lost in the distance of time. it covered the a lot of ground, he did go into quite some detail of an MPA variant that was put into a design proposal as the BAC offering that lost out to HS. Although broadly similar to the P-3 Orion, the Vanguard was a far superior aircraft in many respects and certainly better suited as an airframe for low level patrol work than the Comet4 which of course was a high level cruising airframe. I believe it is correct to say it went through initial design and went to model mock up for presentation before being rejected in favour of the Nimrod. [/QUOTE]

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