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

|Doctor Drivel wrote:
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| The Brabazon project did fall out of the sky.
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|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,

Utter bull****, point to a single report of a Brabazon ever "falling out
of the sky".

If low speed is not a technical reason nothing is.

It wasn't the "low speed" that finished off Brabazon, it was the
economics of a 50 seater aircraft competing with a 150+ seater aircraft.
The economics of pure luxury vs. cattle class travel.