Another good example is
the Brabazon.

I'd forgotten that one. Did you know that it was the Brabazon
Committee that laid down the specs for the plane that became the
Comet? (The first prototype actually seated 20 passengers.)

Be interesting to know how the how the Airbus evolved. Was that too a
government committee?

I suppose aircraft design is now more craft than art, whereas in the
1940s you built the plane first and then discovered whether or not it
would fly.

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