April 11, 2007 at 12:04 am
Ok, The F-155T requirement was a British 1950s tender for a Mach-3 long range heavy interceptor/missile weapons system. There were a number of solutions offered all of them extremely interesting. I have managed to track down images for some of them.
Fairey Delta-3, This was the version that was selected before the programme was cancelled in 1957. Whilst being huge, this was the most conventional looking of the contenders.
http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/Cancel/UK-Feirey.htm
Vickers/Supermarine Type 559- Certainly the coolest looking offer!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vickers559_03.jpg
Hawker P.1103- possibly the most sensible of the designs,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:H-p1103.JPG
Armstrong Whitworth AW.169- the most period looking of the offerings.
http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/Cancel/UK-AW.htm
What I am looking for is a picture or rendition or model of the English Electric offering, the P8 or Lightning F7 as it is sometimes reffered to, It is briefly described in the link below.
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/history.html
Any help would be very much appreciated, thankyou in advance sealordlawrence.
Ps, I have also posted this in the Modern military aviation forum to get a good spread across the vast wealth of knowledge that exists in the two forums!;)
By: sealordlawrence - 11th April 2007 at 10:10
I’m confused. Isn’t that a picture of a mock-up of it beside the text on the Thunder and Lightnings page?
Apparently that mock-up is of a swing-wing version offered to the Royal Navy rather than the P-8 which according to the description had the air intakes moved to the fuselage sides.
By: RadarArchive - 11th April 2007 at 06:08
I’m confused. Isn’t that a picture of a mock-up of it beside the text on the Thunder and Lightnings page?