Originally Posted by
JEM60
I always have fun with my Aviation friends by asking them 'which was the only six engined British jet?'. It was, of course, the Ashton, which at one point had another outboard engine on each wing. It can be seen in this guise in the film 'Cone of Silence'. I believe that the cockpit section of this aircraft is in Newark Museum???.
Not quite.
Newark's Ashton is the forward fuselage of the one (Ashton Mk.2 WB491) that had a fuselage-mounted ventral test pod used, at various times, for testing the Sapphire, Avon and Conway.
It was Ashton Mk.3 WB493 (no longer extant) that was used for the Olympus/Orpheus trials:
