The HS141 was Hawker Siddeley's last major V/Stol airliner project, it was to have 16 RB202s mounted in pods at the wing routes and 2x RB220s in wing mounted pods. Imagine these flying from a iste roughly where the London eye is now
Donor parts include David Maltby's Trident 3 and the CS 757 for the engines and hand drawn bits and bobs
It's the combination of bits that makes it look odd. The obvious Trident front and fuse.. the 1-11 style T-tail and big RR Headbangers hanging off the wings It's certainly not ugly.. just odd seeing all those 3 wrong bits.. bits you wouldn't normally see bolted together in close formation!!
I can just see one rising vertically over the River Thames, or a fleet of them perhaps, all bound for Paris at 0730 every morning. No-one within the City of Westminster would be asleep after that lot for sure.....
I remember reading about this one, it did look the business ( As does you painting The fuel crisis put pay to it though... not the most efficent in that department.
If you had used a 146 fuselage and given it some really large "Sponsons" then you'd have been even closer. Another one worth doing is the HS.134. Basically Its a Trident 3 fuselage with two RB.178s (very similar to the RB.211-535C) underslung a pair of swpet wings with a tailplane reminiscent of the B757 or A321. Would have been way ahead of its time but sadly never made it off the drawing board in 1965.