The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod Was Weird, Brilliant, and Very British

The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod was one of those aircraft that should not have worked as well as it did, at least not on paper. The Nimrod didn’t start out as a purpose-built submarine hunter. Instead, it was a heavily modified version of the de Havilland Comet 4, which was the world’s first operational jet airliner. […]

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