Favorite plane never built (or perhaps as a prototype).

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fubar57 said:
The Arrow of course
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But not as a dedicated interceptor with nothing to intercept. Instead, make the Arrow fit the roles of the CF-100, CF-101, CF-104 and CF-116. It's maddening to me that as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Britain's Hawker-Siddeley, Avro Canada did not collaborate with head office to create a global multirole fighter. Instead we have Hawker designing the P.1121 at the same time Avro is about the fly the Arrow in 1958. Had the two countries and three company divisions (Hawker-Siddeley also owned Orenda Engines, makers of the Iroquois) collaborated and combined economies of scale, we might have got past the Canadian and British finance and defence departments, and ended up with a multirole competitor to the F4 Phantom - coincidentally, also first flown in 1958.

The Arrow's delta wing may have to go, as its detriment to low altitude ops and agility would not meet the multirole requirements. Perhaps the wings of the Hawker P.1129 could be considered. Though the Mirage 3 and 2000 deltas are good, so idk. The Arrow is also huge, almost as big as a SR-71 Blackbird, so might need to be scaled down.





And Hawker P.1129 twin engined strike aircraft was to do the same low altitude nuclear strike role in the RAF as the RCAF's CF-104. Our combined multirole fighter above might have done this job.
 
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Ooohh...so many to consider. Someone already posted the TSR.2 which is definitely on my list. Here are a few more:

First up, the Martin Baker MB.3 - a great-looking aeroplane:







Now for one that came just after WW2, the AW.52 - another thing of beauty, IMHO:






And now for another missed opportunity, the P.1154 which looks like a cross between the F-4 Phantom and a Harrier...which makes sense since it was intended to be a supersonic VTOL fighter:




That's probably enough for now...'cos I could go on...and on....and on....!!!!!
 

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The P.1154 is a new one for me. That's one cool looking VTOL.
 
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