The meaning of it all

Later that year the Ministry invited all the leading British aircraft designers to a meeting to discuss ‘the practicability of developing a civil transport of this size and performance’; once again they didn’t invite Bristol’s, who after all weren’t big aeroplane...
Title:  Any bucket with a lid will do

Title: Any bucket with a lid will do

By 1941 the RAF had discovered how effective four-engined bombers could be, and invited British aircraft manufacturers to tender designs for a long range aeroplane that could carry a five ton bomb-load deep into Germany. They didn’t bother telling the Bristol...