Originally Posted by
moggiee
Sounds about right
I've often wondered how well a rejig of the airframe with 2xRB211s in place of the four Conways (following on from the testbed experiments) would have worked. Unfortunately I suspect there were too few airframes and too little money to make it a viable proposition.
I still say said airframe had so much potential, given the time it was developed, that it was bordering on criminal to have set it aside so early.
I'm glad that so much of the expertise wasn't entirely wasted and lives on in the Airbus projects, but I still despair at our ability at the time to unerringly shoot ourselves in the foot.