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22: 276:. There were to be non-STOVL and STOVL variants of the P.125. Both had a single reheated (afterburning) turbofan with a vectorable rear nozzle. The STOVL variant would have maintained vertical flight using three jet lift nozzles. The pilot of the P.125 would have sat highly reclined 284:
cockpit was enclosed but would increase stealth characteristics and would block out the potential Soviet threat of dazzling laser weapons. In the 1990s the UK government decided to join the JSF (now F-35) programme rather than continue the P.125.
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in a synthetic display cockpit with an array of cameras and would not have had direct sight of the outside world. The
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being developed in the 1980s. The project was cancelled in the 1990s. The existence of the project was revealed by
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was one of several solutions submitted by European countries to the 1960
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Beckett, Neville (May 2008), "Britain's supersonic V/STOL",
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
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Hawker P.1127
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