Chris Scott:
Guess the Schiphol guys finally knocked the Tay idea on the head with the F100?
Chris, I seem to remember when hopes were pinned on a commercial as well as a business re-engine programme that word was it was BAC (as was) that put the mockers on it. Seems they thought it would inhibit sales of the new 146. As has been said the originally envisaged 1-11, 2-11, 3-11 series could have done what the MD series later did. The real fly in the ointment was Concord(e) of course. Built in Mr Wedgwood Benn's fiefdom and requiring all the R&D dosh available as he was MinTech or suchlike. So the production line was packed off to Bucharest, where 10 were constructed in 9 years, or was it 9 in 10?