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Steven P. McNicoll wrote: "ANDREW ROBERT BREEN" wrote in message ... The Nene Viking was certainly the first mating of an airliner fuselage to jet power and the first jet to be capable of employment as an airliner (engine and type certification aside). The Nene was not mated to the Viking airframe to produce an jet-powered Viking airliner, it was purely for the development of the Nene engine. Sorry, I thought it was clear that I was saying exactly that - the Nene Viking would have made a very bad, very uneconomic airliner had anyone attempted to use it as such, so there was never any intention of doing so. *However*, if anyone had been daft enough and had got type approval for it, it could have carried passengers - even fare-payings ones - albeit at ruinous expense. And it was the first jet to get even that far. Everything starts somewhere.. -- Andy Breen ~ Interplanetary Scintillation Research Group http://users.aber.ac.uk/azb/ "Time has stopped, says the Black Lion clock and eternity has begun" (Dylan Thomas) |
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