The Lost V-Bomber

[steelpillow]

A video has been made, claiming that GTR Hill, of Pterodactyl fame, submitted a design for a V-bomber but that it was rejected:

http://www.aerocinema.com/product/the-lost-v-bomber-2.html

The trailer says that the video covers Hill's career.

Has anybody watched it? Is it credible?

 

[Arjen]

Real project.

Dug up earlier by hesham.

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1173.msg157217.html#msg157217

It's the Short Sperrin front fuselage mated to an aero-isoclinic wing and a new tail.

 

[steelpillow]

Thank you. I have posted over there.
I never connected the aeroisoclinic wing with the V-bombers. Silly me.

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

Thank you. I have posted over there.
I never connected the aeroisoclinic wing with the V-bombers. Silly me.

The plane with the aero-isoclinic wing is the unbuilt Short S.B.1 design. A 3-view drawing of it appears on page 26 of the book British Secret Projects: Jet Bombers Since 1949. A one-third scale model of the S.B.1 design was built and first flown on July 14, 1951. Info on the S.B.1 glider is available at this link:

Short SB.1 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Short Sherpa SB.4 Jet prototype

Short Sherpa SB.4 jet prototype was the first fast jet with an aero-isoclinic swept wing, designed in Belfast in 1953. Ulster Aviation Society now own it

ulsteraviationsociety.org

 

[Justo Miranda]

From Air Enthusiast May/June 1999
Tony Buttler article

 

[Schneiderman]

There are two versions of the PD1 project that have been published, presumably an early and developed version

 

[starviking]

From Air Enthusiast May/June 1999

I guess the PD10 is a modified Swift, from the looks of it.

 

[steelpillow]

There are two versions of the PD1 project that have been published, presumably an early and developed version

The lower one with the over-and-under engine mounting and tail barbette is reminiscent of the conservative Sperrin thinking, while the upper one is more a member of the Valiant/Victor generation and more reminiscent of the SB.1 and 4. So I'd say definitely a development progression.

Harder to say whether that was over time or a "we could do it the old way or the new way" comparison.

 

[steelpillow]

From Air Enthusiast May/June 1999

Thank you Justo. These are presumably from Tony Buttler's piece on "Control at the Tips: Aero-isoclinics and Their Influence on Design". How many pages is the whole article?

 

[Justo Miranda]

Six

 

[steelpillow]

Six

Thank you again. Definitely worth hunting down a copy.

 

[TsrJoe]

Short PD.10, isoclinic wing Swift conversion proposal ...

 

[steelpillow]

The Aerocinema site is throwing up a javascript error in my browser.
All I can find of The Lost V-Bomber is a 1-minute trailer on the wayback machine:

The Lost V Bomber

It's mostly about GTR Hill; archive fottage of Pterodctyls and an American narrator. Some CGI clips of the PD 1 are also evident.
Anything more and it looks like you have to find them and buy a streaming subscription.

 

[Apophenia]

A Wayback Machine version of Paul's link:

-- https://web.archive.org/web/2018052...ciety.org:80/shorts-sb4-sherpa-jet/4537302722