Made a useful flying testbed, though.
In the single pic, the lower engines are obviously a lot bigger than the top ones. That’s because the original Avons had been replaced by de Havilland Gyrons. 20,000lbs thrust each in 1955. IIRC, they peaked at 27,000lbs in 1957 before cancellation. I assume they were comfortably the most powerful engines around at that time. They had some fairly serious intake design flaws so the Hawker P.1121 mentioned on another thread might have had problems.

I’ve got a DD video of Farnborough in the Fifties but I haven’t watched it for a few years.
I’ll see what’s on it in the next few days.

The first prototype’s at Southampton, the second crashed into the sea at Felixstowe, killing the pilot, during practice for an air display and the third’s at the bottom of the Solent.

I’m not really sure, strange as it seems.
I was only about 9 and saw them from the water on a boat trip from the Isle of Wight. I thought I took a snap but I found my first photograph album recently and there’s nothing in there.
I suppose I have an impression in my mind, rather than a clear memory.

It’s probably a bit early to ask but we’re thinking of going.

Snigger.

I saw them in their cocooned state, either in Cowes or Southampton Water in the very early sixties. IIRC, they were all broken up only a year or two later.

Project Cancelled was by Derek Wood. Guaranteed to cause virtually instant foaming at the mouth.