Does anybody know the name/designation of...

[rickshaw]

Those nifty vertical take-off platforms that were to be use to lift various 1960s British aircraft into the air and release them?

Does anybody know of some good three view drawings of them?

[Mossie]

English Electric P.17D.  There's a three view in Project Cancelled.  Not sure when I'll be able to, but I can scan it for you.

[jcf]

The platforms were Shorts proposals.
P.17D to lift EE P.17A (TSR 2 predecessor)
PD.34 (Gnat)
PD.40 (G.91)

Project Cancelled, 2nd edition, has good drawings of the PD.34 and P.17D,
the latter was quite a ridiculous thing with 70 engines, 60 lift and 10 propulsion.

[Rheged]

I can offer an animation of them working.......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10123910/Straight-up-BAEs-vertical-lift-off-that-never-was.html

[PR19_Kit]

.....and P.17D, the latter was quite a ridiculous thing with 70 engines, 60 lift and 10 propulsion.

All the more reason for one of us here to build a model of it then...........

[jcf]

.....and P.17D, the latter was quite a ridiculous thing with 70 engines, 60 lift and 10 propulsion.

All the more reason for one of us here to build a model of it then...........

... definitely a subject for WTF modelling.   

[rickshaw]

.....and P.17D, the latter was quite a ridiculous thing with 70 engines, 60 lift and 10 propulsion.

All the more reason for one of us here to build a model of it then...........

Funny you should say that...

In connection with such an idea, I seem to remember being mentioned here somewhere resin lift fan faces being mentioned.  Doesn't anybody remember them and who made them?

[Mr.Creak]

Evil Mushroom?
http://www.evilmushroomgames.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=12

[rickshaw]

Exactly what I was looking for but too large.  I'll have to work on this I think.

[Mossie]

I can offer an animation of them working.......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10123910/Straight-up-BAEs-vertical-lift-off-that-never-was.html

Great vid, thanks for posting!

[Rheged]

I can offer an animation of them working.......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10123910/Straight-up-BAEs-vertical-lift-off-that-never-was.html

Great vid, thanks for posting!

Not sure if it actually helps you at all, but it's fun!

[jcf]

P.17D


P.D.34

Various images of Shorts VSTOL projects here:
http://stingraysrotorforum.activeboard.com/t42982002/short-brothers-vstol-and-rotorcraft-designs/

Note that based on these drawings and the various artists impressions that, for the most part,
the faces of the lift engines would not be visible.