Originally Posted by
rog747
In the UK we simply did not have the jet engines - We had the Spey & the Conway - was that it at that time?
The Trident ran out of steam and eventually needed 4 engines and 1-11 500 (was a nice plane) but the Spey could do no more for it...
And the very pretty but thirsty and noisy VC-10 was quite doomed by then
That goes back to BEA again and their panic about a shrinking market - which appeared to last a week or two. Otherwise we'd have had the Medway and the full-size Trident - which BEA requested very early on. I'm not even sure the Trident was in service before they inquired about a larger one.
BTW, referring to an earlier comment regarding the BAC 1-11, I think that was originally a Hunting Aviation design.