Q Claudio Lamas de Farias submitted a photograph of a supersonic airliner project in December and asked its origin.

A Guido Corten says that it was a Lockheed design study circa 1960 for an aircraft with two nuclear engines plus four conventional jets (two in each engine pod) for take-off and landing. Because of the radiation hazard, the nuclear reactors would only be used at high altitude. Putnam’s Lockheed Aircraft since 1913 makes a brief mention of a supersonic transport with the Basic Model Number 91 but lists no further details.

The photograph of a Junkers Ju 88 crash near Horsham Q Tony Turner sends a photograph of a Junkers Ju 88 forced down three miles south of Horsham, Sussex, on farmland near Monks Gate. An eyewitness saw four crew getting out, and Mr Turner asks for details.

A Assuming this was a Battle of Britain casualty, I ploughed through After the Battle’s The Battle of Britain, Then and Now and the probability is Ju 88A-1 WNr 0274, code 4D+AA of Stab KG30, shot down by Spitfires of No 66 Sqn during a raid on the London docks. It forced-landed in Church Field, Newells Farm, Nuthurst, near Horsham, on September 9, 1940. The crew, comprising Oblt Heil, Uffzs Beck and Paustian and Fw Fuss were captured.