Airframes
Benevolens Magister
That's the chap Wayne!
Those 'F16 look-alike things' never went into production. It was the Saunders Roe SR53(?) - I think that was the number anyway - in the first pic. It was an experimental aircraft, to test systems etc, and Airfix actually did a model of it once! The other one was a Hawker design, that never got past the drawing board I believe, as work concentrated on the Harrier. I think it was the P1147, but not sure. The basic design 'rose from the dead' with the EAP, which, twenty years later, became the Typhoon II.
Hardy is the chap who does/did the artwork for the RAF Journals, such as The Year Book, a good artist, with a simple style, but I don't think as detailed or as 'dynamic' in the portrayal of the scene as Roy Cross's box art. But then, different area and differing requirements.
That's what the TSR2 would have looked like in service, if the Labour Government of the time hadn't murdered it.
Those 'F16 look-alike things' never went into production. It was the Saunders Roe SR53(?) - I think that was the number anyway - in the first pic. It was an experimental aircraft, to test systems etc, and Airfix actually did a model of it once! The other one was a Hawker design, that never got past the drawing board I believe, as work concentrated on the Harrier. I think it was the P1147, but not sure. The basic design 'rose from the dead' with the EAP, which, twenty years later, became the Typhoon II.
Hardy is the chap who does/did the artwork for the RAF Journals, such as The Year Book, a good artist, with a simple style, but I don't think as detailed or as 'dynamic' in the portrayal of the scene as Roy Cross's box art. But then, different area and differing requirements.
That's what the TSR2 would have looked like in service, if the Labour Government of the time hadn't murdered it.