Originally Posted by
Mooncrest
The story could well have played out differently had the UK government let BEA have their way in 1966.
It was "BEA having their way" that caused de Havilland to reduce the size of the aeroplane they were designing for BEA so that we " . . . designed an internationally unwanted airliner with scaled-down engines that RR knew they could not sell elsewhere." The original DH121 was B727 size in most respects so history shows that our (and Boeing's) original sizing was right and BEA was wrong.