Courtney Mil, that's more like it! I do wonder whether the RAF at the time, as a body corporate, were enthused by such developments. But it also shows that the Air Staff were not quite the conservative, dyed in the wool dinosaurs that they have so often been portrayed, at least between the Wars.
LJ - thanks for the photo. A USAF research paper alludes to further work, a decade later, on jet propelled aerial torpedoes. The Cabinet didn't fund it, but a bunch sausage-side took up the idea
It will be interesting to see what a new biography on Trenchard would bring out. Admittedly, the Andrew Boyle one is not the least critical of Trenchard and was, of course, based on interviews with the man himself, as well as interviews with many of his staff over the years.
As a side note, my copy was presented to a Jack Veitch on 23 March 1963, 'wishing him a very happy and successful captaincy' and signed by about 50 colleagues. Would this have been referring to a RAF aircraft captaincy perchance?
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