Armstrong Whitworth AW.171
| Industry | Aerospace |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1919 in United Kingdom |
| Fate | Merged into Hawker Siddeley Aviation |
| Headquarters | Coventry , United Kingdom |
| Products | Aircraft |
The Armstrong Whitworth AW.171 was a British initiative from the 1950s aimed at creating a supersonic VTOL flying wing aircraft. The project intended to explore the ultra-low aspect ratio delta wing configurations suggested by Professor A.A. Griffith for supersonic passenger planes. Its design featured a highly slender delta flying wing powered by two Bristol Orpheus turbojet engines positioned at the wingtips, supplemented by ten Rolls-Royce RB.108 lift jets. To reduce aerodynamic drag, the pilot was planned to be positioned lying prone.[1] The development was discontinued in 1957 before any prototype could be constructed.
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- Williams, Ray. "Paper Planes: Armstrong Whitworth's unrealized concepts". Air Enthusiast, issue forty-three, 1991. ISSN 0143-5450. pp. 60–79.