Air Enthusiast 1995-09 / T.Buttler - Strike Rivals

English Electric P.17 with trapezoidal wing podded engine layout drawn around October 1956.

Air Enthusiast 1995-09 / T.Buttler - Strike Rivals

P.17 as a podded delta dated about November 1956.

Air Enthusiast 1995-09 / T.Buttler - Strike Rivals

P.17 with trapezoid foreplanes and rear fuselage engines tunnel tested during December 1956 to February 1957.

Air Enthusiast 1995-09 / T.Buttler - Strike Rivals

The final tendered P.17 configuration arrived at in spring 1957.

Aviation Historian 21 / C.Gibson - Shrinking pains: the aftermath

The P.22 with weapons deployed, ready for launch. The deployment sequence was as follows: bomb bay rotates to expose weapons bay; trapeze lowers; weapon is launched; trapeze retracts; bomb bay rotates to closed position.

Aviation Historian 21 / C.Gibson - Shrinking pains: the aftermath

Had interceptor development been allowed to continue, three of the front-runners would have been the Fairey Delta 3 with Red Hebe missiles, and English Electric’s P.22 (with a rotary weapons bay) and P.23 Lightning derivative (with a mixed weapons load).

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Fairey FD.2 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1954

Aviation Historian 21 / C.Gibson - Shrinking pains: the aftermath

Rotatable bomb­bay sequence with various weapons loads. The rotary bomb bay proposed for the P.22 was based on a design invented and trademarked by the Glenn L. Martin company in the USA, which used the idea on its experimental three-engined bomber/ground-attack aircraft, the XB-51, although the type was never put into production.