My BAC P.45 Drawings

[Hood]

The drawings I did of the BAC P.45 studies for Teach for the Sky didn't come out that large on the printed page so thought I would share them here as a bonus extra so that you can enjoy the detail.

 

[Archibald]

Wow. Excellent work.

But, wait, they wanted to hang Martels ABOVE wings, like Sidewinders on Jaguars ??!!! And FIVE of them ?
- Martel is a huge beast of missile, nothing like a smallish AIM-9
- P-45 was smaller than Jaguar or Mirage III-E
- which already had hard times dragging one Martel along the centerline
- not even a freeakin' Tornado can carry that number (F-111 may be ?)

What could possibly go wrong ? Or maybe it was the heydays of the swinging London, and somebody put LSD into the beer or wine at the cafeteria ?

 

[red admiral]

The delta winged versions don't half remind me of shrunken TSR2s

 

[zen]

The delta winged versions don't half remind me of shrunken TSR2s

It's a rather neat and attractive design from plan view. Not so sure about the side though.

But excellent work and I very much appreciate the sharing.
One day I'll buy the book.

 

[uk 75]

wine at the BAC cafeteria.... the sixties were more glamorous than I remember

 

[red admiral]

wine at the BAC cafeteria.... the sixties were more glamorous than I remember

Wine has been replaced by Cheese Pie now. A single slice could fell Chuck Norris.

 

[Hood]

The delta winged versions don't half remind me of shrunken TSR2s

Yes it feels like Warton got lazy and just nicked a TSR wing.
Putting the 30mm cannon in those outer wing pods seems an odd move to me, vibration and dispersion of shot seem obvious problems. Its hard to tell how serious the fixed-wing version was, I suspect because Warton really wanted to sell the VG wing they might have made the fixed-wing option less than optimal.
And as Archibald says, some of the weapon loadouts look a little fanciful with hardpoints littered around the aircraft. I must confess that Jaguar looks a much more realistic proposition.