Originally Posted by
dixi188
Quote:
Ideas that didn' fly
BAC 3-11 ...
Also BAC 2-11, X-11, 1-11 srs.700 and 800, VC-10 with two RB211s for China.
All would have been built at Hurn.
The list of UK (or US or French or Russian, come to that) manufacturers' projects that never got further than the drawing board is endless.
But that's the point, sense prevailed before any metal was cut, which rather puts that category beyond the scope of the OP's proposition.
Originally Posted by
Rwy in Sight
a number of ideas appeared very bright as they were launched only to be abandoned only few years later