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\u2019t 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\u2019s first operational jet airliner. [\u2026]<\/p>\n
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