Aircraft Engine Test Beds: British Jet Fighters and Bombers

During the late 1940s and 1950s, British jet fighter and bomber aircraft were fitted with new engines to serve as test beds. This book brings together these aircraft and engines, accompanied by over 200 images, for aviation enthusiasts and modellers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 18 January 2023
Publisher: Key Publishing Ltd

During the late 1940s and into the 1950s, a number of British jet fighter and bomber aircraft were fitted with new, different or additional engines, both jet and rocket, to enable them to serve as test beds for those specific powerplants. These aircraft types included fighters such as the de Havilland Vampire, Gloster Meteor and Javelin, and Hawker Hunter, the one-off Hawker P.1072 and the English Electric Canberra, Short Sperrin, Vickers Valiant and Avro Vulcan bombers. This book brings together these specific aircraft, and the engines they tested, in a single volume. Accompanied by over 200 images, some of which are published here for the first time, it is an invaluable reference tool for both aviation enthusiasts interested in experimental and trails aircraft and modellers specialising in jet aircraft.

Weight: 324g
Dimension: 242 x 169 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781802822489