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"Spiv" writes:

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Spiv" wrote in message
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The Britannia was a Brabazon phase, so was the Comet. That makes two
types with many planes.

You're confusing the committee with the hardware.

They did they
adopted...........again..........sigh..........p ressurised
cabin,

The Boeing 307 had that ten years before the Brabazon.

hydraulic power units to operate control surfaces,

The Curtiss CW20 had that ten years before the Brabazon.

But not all the points together.

Actually, it did. Yhe CW-20 prototype was pressurized.
And the C-46, that grew out of it, while it got off to a rocky start,
turned out to be a tough old bird that stayed in USAF service until
the mid 1960s, and is still earning its keep in the Bush & Jungle
around the world.

The Brabazon was a failed concept, intended to take a few paying
passengers, and the occasional King's Messenger, in opulant confort
very slowly from stop to stop as it crow-hopped the Royal Mail from
outpost to outpost in the hinterlands of the Empire.

BOAC saw what they might be getting, and bought Stratoliners and
Constellations instead.

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Pete Stickney
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