Ever wondered why Britain seemingly gave up on the Space Race? It's because we didn't need to bother - we'd already won it...
Here I present the aircraft the RAF will never admit to having, to the extent of basing them at Ascension Island, far away from eagle - eyed planespotters, and blaming sightings on American cover ups. Ladies and Gentlemen, let me lift the veil on the BAe Spectre Strategic Reconnaisance aircraft...
The Model:
This is a little 1/300? scale Concorde I picked up a while ago, with the intention of creating a Concorde bomber. Of course, this was precisely two days before everyone started posted pics of their Bombcorde builds! Ho hum, back to the old drawing board. Then, I thought of what no one else seemed to have envisioned - a spaceplane!
So, I replaced the nose with a spare part from the spares box, popped the engines atop the wings, and gave her a NASA space shuttle scheme...