Hawker P.1121

Picture - Hawker P.1121 model on display at the Midland Air Museum.

Role: Fighter aircraft
Manufacturer: Hawker Siddeley
First flight: Not flown
Number built: 1 (mock-up only)

The Hawker P.1121 was an unflown British design for a supersonic fighter aircraft. The design was to be powered by either the de Havilland Gyron, Bristol Olympus or Rolls-Royce Conway engines, it was designed by a team headed by Sydney Camm and funded as a company project to meet an Air Ministry Operational Requirement (OR.339). Work was stopped in 1958.

Comparable aircraft

Nord 1500 Griffon

Bibliography

Mason, Francis K. Hawker Aircraft Since 1920. London. Conway Maritime Press Ltd, 1991. ISBN 0 85177 839 9

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