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- Dec 6, 2006
The Beverly was designed and the prototype built by General Aircraft before their merger with Blackburn..
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The Beverly was designed and the prototype built by General Aircraft before their merger with Blackburn..Blackburns design staff were busy boys, from 1945 till the Buccaneer they went through about 57-58 design studies. Some got further than others.
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They were trying everything they could think of.
Also, its not their own money that they're spending. Luckily us Brits have handed the mantle of Global Superpower over to the Americans, so we don't have that problem any more.Quite a few government agencies -- including the militaries -- seem to have never heard of the sunk cost fallacy and will keep throwing more money into projects that should have been terminated earlier. (as an aside, any time you hear a politician saying "we can't let those <insert nationality here> have died in vain," they're indulging in a sunk cost fallacy.)
As they say, what do you call the guy who finished dead last in medical school? Doctor.Blackburn certainly dropped the ball with George Petty as designer
Also, its not their own money that they're spending. Luckily us Brits have handed the mantle of Global Superpower over to the Americans, so we don't have that problem any more.
I suppose we can argue that the front line came to Hitler and Stalin, but to their credit they didn't flee to safer places, King George VI and family wouldn't have fled Britain had Sealion occurred, but I appreciate that's not the same as Cromwell leading at Hastings. But hey heel spurs are a real thing, and here in Canada I don't think we've ever had a former soldier serve as PM (edit).It's no longer their lives, either. At least in medieval era, the people who decided to go to war were on the front lines. Chickenhawks didn't remain in charge long.
But sticking to aircraft, are there cases of the manufacturer's design chief losing his life or being injured crashing his own design?
Two of Geoffrey de Havilland's sons died flying de Havilland aircraft.But sticking to aircraft, are there cases of the manufacturer's design chief losing his life or being injured crashing his own design? QUOTE]
but I appreciate that's not the same as Cromwell leading at Hastings.
Bloody hell, lol..... I was just watching a timeline of European leaders and for some reason Cromwell stuck in my head. Make that 1066, William the Conquerer. I can only blame this Covid19 home isolation and the wine. Check out the vid above, I really enjoyed it.Eh erm whatOliver Cromwell wasnt born till 1599 he would have been minus 533 in 1066
Now that must have been difficult to explain to their mother. According to Wikipedia their mother "Louise suffered a nervous breakdown following these deaths and died in 1949."Two of Geoffrey de Havilland's sons died flying de Havilland aircraft.
I suppose we can argue that the front line came to Hitler and Stalin, but to their credit they didn't flee to safer places, King George VI and family wouldn't have fled Britain had Sealion occurred, but I appreciate that's not the same as Cromwell leading at Hastings. But hey heel spurs are a real thing, and here in Canada I don't think we've ever had a former soldier serve as PM (edit).
But sticking to aircraft, are there cases of the manufacturer's design chief losing his life or being injured crashing his own design? Akin to the RN's captain Coles perishing when his deeply flawed design HMS Captain sank. For example, here is the Blackburn Pellet, self destructing on its takeoff run for the 1923 Schneider race.
That's Murphy's Law for certain. You don't design the aileron circuit so it can be put in backwards.This was due to the incorrect assembly of the aileron circuit.
Geoffrey de Havilland was in aviation from the start and produced some fantastic aircraft and also engines etc. Is that worth two sons and your wife, life is tough.Now that must have been difficult to explain to their mother. According to Wikipedia their mother "Louise suffered a nervous breakdown following these deaths and died in 1949."
They didn't do it in 1940 because they had 2 minutes to get airborne.That's Murphy's Law for certain. You don't design the aileron circuit so it can be put in backwards.
And a simple pre-flight control surface check that we see every pilot doing would have caught that. Didn't they do in the 1940s what is commonly checked today?
That's Murphy's Law for certain. You don't design the aileron circuit so it can be put in backwards.
And a simple pre-flight control surface check that we see every pilot doing would have caught that. Didn't they do in the 1940s what is commonly checked today?
They didn't do it in 1940 because they had 2 minutes to get airborne.
Chadwick died in 1947 in the prototype Tudor 2 airliner. Surely a peacetime civilian aircraft can undergo the necessary preflight checks?They didn't do it in 1940 because they had 2 minutes to get airborne.