Originally Posted by
thetimesreader84
I always had the other impression, that the engineers got a bit carried away with the "nice to haves" leaving a bit of a dogs dinner for the sales people to market.
The truth probably lies between the two?
It was a disaster driven by constraints, the sales guys wanted it to look modern so it had to have a swept the fin (its the 748 one with a bit of extra to lean it back), the accountants wanted it cheap so the carbon fibre floor beams, as initially specd, had to go, it had to absorb staff so BAe missile people did the props and the whole design budget was slim so the centre section came from the Andover along with all the 748 bits. And the avionics were low rent.
Richard