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Nick Sumner said:So, if I were going to go looking for more information about the various P1179 projects where would be a good place for me to look?
PaulMM (Overscan) said:Not directly, P.1179 was a bit later. P.1150 led to P.1154, which was cancelled in 1965. P.1179 was a clean sheet design in 1968 aimed at the MRCA requirement. Hawker were building the McDonnell-Douglas F-4K under license at the time, which might account for a little F-4 flavour.
andy_d said:Why would Hawker Siddeley propose a V/STOL aircraft to the MRCA requirement? Surely the penalties imposed by VTOL would mean that it had no chance of meeting the other parameters.
alertken said:SV/PaulMM: F-4K/M. You are both right: Short outer wing, BAC aft fuselage/tail/inboard wing leading edge; HSAL/Brough was appointed Sister Firm (a UK concept to secure In Service Support priced in £).
That looks an awful lot like the RAF variant of the P1154....And my image of the wind tunnel model at Brooklands.