1981 British Aerospace Filton Stiletto

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Paul Nuttall
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1981 British Aerospace Filton Stiletto

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An interesting BAe Filton design has been listed on the Secret Projects website here

The British Aerospace Filton Stiletto was a 1981 British concept for a Mach 2 interceptor, inspired by and utilizing Concorde technology

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/thread ... ier.49934/ POst38 onwards

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/thread ... ogy.50717/

and in this article here

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/raider ... -archives/

both as advertising for a new book

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Rocket J Squrriel
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Re: 1981 British Aerospace Filton Stiletto

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82 feet long? That's a big plane!
Westray: That this is some sort of coincidence. Because they don't really believe in coincidences. They've heard of them. They've just never seen one.
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Craiglxviii
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Re: 1981 British Aerospace Filton Stiletto

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Concorde?

That’s FIREFOX!!!
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Bob Dedmon
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Re: 1981 British Aerospace Filton Stiletto

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Mach 2 cruise? 6 weapons stations, little thin there, Take off/landing seem a little short w/o help. The artist drawing shows a pretty airplane though.
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Nathan45
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Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sat Dec 13, 2025 8:44 am Concorde?

That’s FIREFOX!!!
But this time the telepathic commands are in the Queens English rather then Russian....
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Zen9
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Re: 1981 British Aerospace Filton Stiletto

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O.3 scale Olympus 593?
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So 9,390lb dry thrust?

So 18,780lb dry to power a 57,000lb aircraft?
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