Originally Posted by
Allan Lupton
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.
Are you saying that DH should have told BEA to b*gg*r off, and gone ahead with the original-sized, Medway-powered design ?
I guess we'll never know how many of those they might have sold ...