megan: your 2 most recent posts will be unwelcome to Crecy and to Air-Britain, both with imminent books on/with M.52. Such is the lure of conspiracy. I am with
CNH:
bee in bonnet.
The War ends; no UK enemy or (until 15/7/46 $ Loan) money...yet Ministers continue, nay expand funding civil aircraft as prime $-earners/sparers. One is Miles M.60 Marathon.
When he had been MAP's Director of Scientific Research,
Ben Lockspeiser had funded M.52 29/12/43 as FTB for
Whittle's reheated turbofan W.2/700. Now as DGSR(A)/MoS
Sir Ben was: a) Chairman, MAP Supersonics Committee; b) part of the team managing the Brabazon suite's budget; and c) protector of a very modest Aircraft Research budget, which he chose to apply to ideas of evident civil, $-earning potential: Flying Wing (the AWA schemes), laminar flow (HP), VG: “funds…to begin experimental work” on scale models; in Summer,1948 V-A’s
Barnes Wallis would elicit VG interest from BOAC MD,
Whitney Straight.
J.E.Morpurgo, Barnes Wallis, Longman, 1972, P.313). These might all follow as
Brabazon-1960s, where
Brab-Now relied on turbines to defeat Connie, Dakota and the array of gestating giants (Mars, Constitution, Globemaster...)
When chopping the pointless supersonic vehicle 2/46 he must not embarrass its originating Minister
Cripps, now at Trade, nor blight Brabazon Type
VB M.60, so he spoke of “pilot risk”. All wholly logical. No conspiracy. Ministers then and now can be persuaded to back winners:
Cripps at Trade funded the Land Rover, whose Defender descendent has only now gone out of production. The key is to pick the
X-Factor, not the lemon.