Bristol Brabazon
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As I've understood it, it was good training for the Britannia (and a bunch of the money spent on this went to infrastructure that they could reuse).
Still a bit optimistic, though - to put it mildly.
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Overweight, over-cost,overblown and over here.....high hopes but low achievement....each Centaurus driving only a 3-bladed prop?...under powered at the drawing board stage.
The 12m would have been better spent on stretching the brand new Comet...but..
..you can't judge yesterdays people with today's values; they did their best.
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Geez. Twelve million? That won't even buy a single BBJ or a G5.
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Problem was that it was based on a philosophy that air travel was for the "select few". It was much larger than say a 767 but carried less than 100 passengers. In utmost luxury, admitted, but that kind of travel died out rapidly and instead mass transportation won the day. Besides, the Brab was hopelessly underpowered. It DID spawn some new tecniques though.
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@Brera011 - Don't forget Lockheed's Constitution and Douglas' DC-4E.
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Zero to 4000 feet in 60 minutes.
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LOL, people popping out of the fuselage openings look like Maggets on a Rotting Salmon.
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DannyFischarge 1 month ago 12
9:12 "we're sending up MPs - our most easily expendible load"
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