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They did. With a smaller aircraft, the Britannia, which went on to be successful and a regular sight well into the seventies. That also got to benefit from the
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
They did. With a smaller aircraft, the Britannia, which went on to be successful and a regular sight well into the seventies. That also got to benefit from the brand new, huge hangars and new runways at Filton created for the Brabazon. There was already a turboprop Brabazon in progress, but that wasn't pursued to prototype.
Both suffered from the arrival of jets with the DH Comet in 1949. Prop or turboprop for long haul was done, so it was never going to be quite what might have been expected in 1944.
- smacktoward 7y agoThe Britannia wasn't a further development of the Brabazon, it was a separate project developed to address a different design category called for by the Brabazon Committee -- what the committee called a "Type III" design, as opposed to the Brabazon, a "Type I". (The Comet was also developed to fill one of the committee's categories, Type IV.)
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoHmm, I thought that was a cancelled Avro. Britannia only coming into being after it had been cancelled and put out again. Course I may well have blurred the timeline too. :) Edit: Yeah, Avro 690, which became Avro 693 with Avons by time of cancellation in 47. Spec 2.47 was Britannia, which was indeed type III not type I, so I'd muddled the timeline too.