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Old 25th May 2012, 19:12
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Milo Minderbinder
 
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the history books suggest that the spec of the RAF and RN requirements became so diverse that one aircraft couldn't do both roles, so the project died as developing both would have been too expensive

However read John Farley's posts on this page
Maybe there was a practical engineering problem as well
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ml#post7144134
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