Despite being favoured over Bristol's design, AWA was not able to spare the staff to realise the ER.134T research aircraft requirement, and so Bristol was awarded the contract.
As we know Bristol's 188 took a long time and was hampered by the Gyron Junior engines.
But what if AWA had staff...
1960s
air ministry
alternate history
armstrong whitworth aircraft
avro 730
bristol aeroplane company
cold war
experimental
great britain
late 1950s
ministry of supply
operationalrequirementer.134t
royal air force
royal aircraft establishment
supersonic
Hi,
I spoke before about ER.134T contenders;
in ER.134T for Mach 2 research aircraft,the contenders were AW.166,
Boulton Paul P.128,Bristol-188,English-Electric P.6 ,Hawker P.1096 and
P.1097,Saro P.163 and Vickers-Supermarine-553...
air ministry
avro 730
cold war
great britain
late 1950s
ministry of supply
operationalrequirementer.134t
royal air force
royal aircraft establishment
supersonic
united kingdom
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