For a laugh here’s a letter I found in the national Archives from the Royal Aircraft establishment, where they give a rather brutal assessment of the planned ACA design, and MBB’s engineering competence:
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Yeah the book mentions they really hated the supermaneuverability requirements particularly as the aircraft was slated to be more than maneuverable enough without those features and hence the P.110 was significantly more favoured supposedly even by the AIT engineers.
The EAP was not a prototype.
It was a Prototype-Demonstrator. Not an actual weapons platform prototype. And they have multiple times on this forum mentioned it will never come.