The P.1202-9 were a studie put forward by Hawker Siddeley (Kingston) in 1977/78 as an answer to the requirements in AST.403 for a successor to the Harriers and Jaguars of RAF. A long line of proposals from various aircraft producers led in the end to the building of the EAP and the Eurofighter Typhoon, which entered service in RAF in 2006 - 29 years after AST.403 was originaly submitted.
But what if RAF had overruled the mandarins of Whitehall and ordered the P.1202-9 into production?
The Hawker Siddeley P.1202-9 ”Hobby” entered squadron service in the autum of 1984. The plane were named af the Hobby (Falco subbuteo) which is a very swift falcon nesting in Southern England. Then some argentine generals and admirals made the mistake of their lives in 1982. After the recapture of The Falkland Islands, Britain needed a strong air defence on the islands to ensure, that there would be no repetition. So in the winter 1984-85 a flight of Hobby's arrived af RAF Mount Pleasant.
The model in scale 1/72 will be based on an old f-16 kit from Idea in the ”wrong scale” of 1/48 and the sadly remains of a PM Models F-16, which did lose its wings to a Douglas XF-3A conversion.
