Originally Posted by
Pontius Navigator
The aircraft manufacturers also seemed to be head in clouds, or the Ministry of Supply.
Bristol Frightener to the Type 188 - logical
Bristol had a lot of supersonic experience from Red Duster (Bloodhound) and had a supersonic wind tunnel from 1951-52 onwards. Their first supersonic airframe was the Ramjet powered JTV 1 in 1951 and they had full sized ramjet test airframes reaching Mach 2.4 the following year. Filton did know a little bit about building Supersonic airframes.