I recently came across a few Harrier development/replacement ideas while browsing over at
greg goebel's air vectors website and decided to make them:
First the 'Big Wing' Harrier:
Quote:
The RAF had been considering in parallel a Harrier upgrade proposed by British Aerospace called the "Big Wing" Harrier. This involved a new and bigger wing made of metal and was also known as the "Tin Wing" Harrier. The wing would have been retrofitted to existing Harrier GR.3s and Sea Harriers. However, in 1980 the RAF evaluated the AV-8B design to see if it would meet their requirements instead.
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It seemed like it would be simple to modify the wings of game's Harrier to produce this... and indeed it was. But no sooner had I done that then I stumbled on a proposed Harrier replacement denoted P1216:
So here's the end products (from Left to right standard in game Harrier, tweaked wings to give 'Big Wing' Harrier, P1216):
Couldn't seem to attatch the zip file so looks like anyone interested will need to open and save these two bitmaps:
P1216
'Big Wing' Harrier