On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:37:33 +0000, Steve Firth
wrote:

|Doctor Drivel wrote:
|
| The Brabazon project did fall out of the sky.
|
|
|Wrong as usual, Brabazon didn't fall out of the sky and the Mk 1 racked
|up about 400 hours flying time. It was grounded by economics, not
|technical or safety problems.

Wrong as usual, the *project* did fall out of the Sky, for must the reasons
given by OP It was grossly underpowered, and slow. Which would have made
it
| seem as though it was going to fall out of the sky


http://www.unrealaircraft.com/classics/brab.php

Passengers would not spend 12 hours in a Brabazon when they could reach
their destination in a smaller, faster aircraft in seven.


If low speed is not a technical reason nothing is.

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