it is hard not to believe the British government was pressured by the Americans to cancel the M.52 project.
This kind of stuff as been hinted at before, and also in regard to the TSR2 and Avro Arrow cancellations. As a bonus from the Arrow cancellation its been said that the Apollo project got a bit of a boost from all those redundant Avro Canada engineers, well maybe but is any of this in public record anywhere or is it just a nice notion to write a book around?