Originally Posted by tornadoken
Q: But who said: weight “would prevent (V.1000) providing required payload/ range.”
That's an interesting statement. Unfortunately we will not know whether this would've become true but is there some more backing for this statement perhaps? It was also said that the weight of the civil version was moving down as the development progressed, we also know (isn't hindsight great) that the Conway did develop the promised power levels, a bit more even.
While it may have been a valid reason at that point to cancel the V.1000, couldn't we say that with a bit more faith in the skills of Vickers and Rolls-Royce it may have been a feeble reason? Obviously this is hindsight talking but personally I'm still wondering if the reasons were good enough. Anyway, with the V.1000 there may not have been a VC10 so should we really complain.....
