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Specification F.5/34 High-performance fighter with air-cooled engine for overseas (hot climate) use - Bristol Type 146, Gloster G.38, Martin-Baker M.B.2, Vickers Type 279 Venom
And the MB2 eventually progressed into the MB5 a fighter that was praised by everyone as being ahead of the game and could have been in service before the end of the War....... so we never bought it...
We have a knack in this country for being innovative and bringing to almost service some excellent designs or concepts to simply bin them to the advantage of everyone else at the last moment, or we simply hand it over such as the Harrier an excellent aircraft, but one that never realised it's original full potential due to Government meddling. Our Airline industry was all but destroyed by handing all our research over to the USA.