Originally Posted by
DozyWannabe
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.
Rolls Royce offered the IAE V2500 in about 1986 - the MoD said no because the VC10 was due to retire in 2000...........to be replaced by FSTA