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I have a question to the experts. What is the device mounted above the gun sight of the F.6A #XF382 seen on the image below? Is this an additional gun sight camera or an AIM-9 launching device added during the 1976 overhaul by Armstrong Whitworth at Baginton? What was the nomenclature of the...

What it says on the tin...

Thanks to my wallet - from a binder scans that I have tried to clean up and condense the image to get more detail into the 1200 pixel limit. Section 1 Subsonic VTOL aircraft with single B.S. Pegasus engine Fig 1.1 Original P.1127 layout. The straight through hot end is a feature which is...

I've just heard that Harrier and P1216 designer Ralph Hooper passed away yesterday. He was 96, and in my view, Britain's greatest ever aircraft designer. Ralph explained his achievements modestly but clearly to the many who asked. Glad we asked him to do so for a video a few years back...

I have just heard, via the latest Hawker Association newsletter, that Roy Braybrook passed away last June. Another of the great authors who got me, and probably many on this forum, interested in aircraft has gone to the great aviation library in the sky. He was also, of course, a designer in...

Just wondered why this amazing aircraft doesn't enjoy such a reputation as compared to TSR2? Thinking back to the sixties would it not have made sense to take up the Yorkshire suggestion rather than one from a neighbouring county? After all a supersonic Bucc would have saved developmental...

I found this drawing on the net and the only info I know that is was an Avro Bomber Project with 10 engines. Do you guys know anything more on this project?

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Once again everybody I bow down to your wisdom and plead for enlightenment! Having spent an afternoon randomly googling (I really enjoy my current job ;)) I stumbled across the RB.431 entrance on the Skomer site. http://www.skomer.u-net.com/projects/turbines.htm It claims that the engine was...

In Tony Buttler's British Secret Projects: Jet Bombers there is a list of projects by manufacturer. In the Blackburn section P.155 says "Base burning aircraft, 1971". Does anybody have a clue as to what that means? Thanks

Two pics of wind tunnel models found at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry HS Kingston P.1201 for AST.403. Featured in BSP Fighters, with a butterfly tail. This is an alternative version - sorry, no dash number. Also what I think was one version of (there were a lot!) the Hawker...

Source: Donald Hannah, Flypast Reference Library - Hawker, Key Publishing 1982

AFVG It was a joint Anglo-French project, with British Aerospace leading, for a post TSR.2 strike aircraft. France were never particularly interested in this project; it did however serve as a useful way of getting hold of UK VG technology, which was based on years of research. Note that the...