"Keith Willshaw" wrote:
| "Brett" wrote in message
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| "Cub Driver" wrote:
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| 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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| The Type III , for Empire and Commonwealth routes was of
| course the Bristol Brittania

The Britannia wasn't designed and built to meet the Brabazon Committee
Type III (it was the only type that didn't generate an "airframe"). The
Britannia was designed and built to satisfy a later requirement
generated by BOAC.

| The Brabazon committee was put together in 1943 because it was
| realised that the wartime agreement with the USA they transport
| aircraft would be supplied from US manufacturing while Britain
| concentrated on bomber and fighter production would leave
| UK manufacturers at a disadvantage in the post war era.

And the two aircraft that can be considered commercial successes from
those committee meetings were the Vickers Viscount (Type IIB) and de
Havilland Dove (Type VB). A committee specification that resulted in two
commercial successes out of seven sounds like the committee was a lot
better at its job than history reports (its always the Bristol Brabazon
that gets the headline).