"Keith Willshaw" wrote:
| "Brett" wrote in message
| ...
| "Keith Willshaw" wrote:
| | "Brett" wrote in message
| | ...
| | "Cub Driver" wrote:
| |
| |
| |
| | 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.
| |
| |
| |
| | 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.
|
|
| Not really.

Yes really, the requirement and design came AFTER the war and it was
BOAC's design requirements that were embodied in specification 2/47.

| The Brittania design aka Bristol Type 175 was designed by Bristol
| to meet the Brabazon III requirement. Ironically the Brabazon
| committee cancelled this requirement fearing it would be
| a costly failure and while the design was indeed put forward
| to BOAC the order for the initial prototypes came from the
| Ministry of Supply

Because BOAC requirement was for an aircraft with an in service date of
1954 and BOAC was not prepared to risk "its future" on an order of at
least 25 production aircraft that the MoS originally demanded without
seeing it "fly" and your comments do not show that the Britannia was
designed to meet the Brabazon Type III airframe.

| | 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).