Work on the P.1080 began in early 1945 when the Ministry of Aviation issued specifications for a fighter powered by two ramjets.
The specifications called for two DFS ramjet engines, each with 3,440 pounds (1,560 kg) of thrust.
[1] The aircraft would have been tailless, with the elevators built in to the swept wing, which was based on that of the Heinkel P.1078, and would have had a single vertical stabilizer.
The cockpit was located far forward in the fuselage, and the two engines were mounted at the wing roots.
For takeoff, the aircraft would have been fitted with solid-fuel RATO boosters and jettisonable undercarriage.