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English Electric P.42 proposal??

I recently stumbled upon this a/c at a site,

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IIRC. It looks like a cross between a MiG-25 & an Avro Arrow. Bad looking MF! Anyway, I looked in both the "British Secret Projects" books on fighters & jet bombers to no avail. I assumed it was an interceptor & didn't find it there so I looked in the bombers book. Was it a recon a/c or what? I did a Google & the only thing I find is back at that site. Was it even a real proposal? I'd like to find out more info if it's out there. Thanks.

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frank
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Acording to the Putnams book on English Electric, the P42 was to have been a hypersonic research aircraft. The book gives no other information.

Gordon McLaughlin

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Gordon McLaughlin

Frank,

some info on this and other related designs is on this site:

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There is an illustration in a German book that also shows a variant of this design as the carrier aircraft for a small orbital launch vehicle.

Mart> I recently stumbled upon this a/c at a site,

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100450.3563

Thanks! Very informative! The version I've seen are the Scheme 4 version. Scheme 2 is quite sexy, tho!

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frank

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