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"Cub Driver" wrote:
| | 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. The Brabazon committee proposed a series of different civil aircraft types that would be needed in a post war world. One of them became the Comet (high speed mail carrier), another became the Airspeed Ambassador (the Brabazon IIA, a DC-3 replacement) and one became the Vickers Viscount (the Brabazon IIB)..... The committee I believe specified the target market that may or may not have ever existed in the post war world. |
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