On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 21:59:05 GMT, Alan Lothian wrote:

In article , Keith Willshaw
wrote:

The nearest I can imagine is the 1954 Naval Staff Requirement NA.39
which called for a long range carrier aircraft capable of
making a nuclear strike and flying in under enemy radar.

The aircraft that grew from this specn was the Blackburn Buccaneer

"Not built, carved from solid". Bloody well damn near was, too.

Heh. The Banana Jet was awesome. Pity the P150 "supersonic Buccaneer"
project never got past planning stage.

EAa
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Of course it looks as though it came out of Independence
Day by way of This Island Earth, which is nice, and it's
a magnificently sexy piece of equipment to boot.
-- Mike Andrews about the SR-71 Blackbird.