Hawker Siddeley P.139B
Posted by BrianEno_ate_my_DX7@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 8 comments
The Hawker Siddeley P.139B was a proposed Airborne early warning platform with bizarre toy-like proportions. Radar in the nose and tail created the bulbous appearance resulting in a S-3 Viking stung by a bee look.
Edarneor@reddit
It's as if Pixar made "Planes"
Agreeable-Raspberry5@reddit
A would-be Gannet replacement, design work was started by Blackburn (no surprise). It would have been nice to see the AEW HS125 though - that could have done well.
iamalsobrad@reddit
Blackburn. When you absolutely, positively got to be the weirdest motherf*cker in the hanger, accept no substitutes.
PriestWithTourettes@reddit
Ah yes, the British Blohm & Voss
BrianEno_ate_my_DX7@reddit (OP)
Apparently Blackburn dabbled in sobriety for a few years when they made the Buccaneer but I agree their designs tend to define the British vision of idiosyncratic design.
Foreign_Athlete_7693@reddit
Eh the sobriety of the buccaneer is bairly skin-deep😂
thtkidfrmqueens@reddit
A chibi-ass looking plane if there ever was one.
pdf27@reddit
Same concept as the Nimrod AEW.3, although hopefully less ambitious with trying to mesh the two radomes together. Probably for the best it never went anywhere.