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Thing is institutional memory remembered piston aircraft operating from level fields. Hence the term airfield.Able to move with the battlefront and deliver CAS/BAI as advances drove Nazi Germany back.V/STOL offered the chance to recover this in a time when conventional aircraft where increasingly needing mile after mile of pristine concrete that imposed ever greater needs of range fuel for the same load.What was missed was STOL and 'short' runway ops where literally hundreds of millions (£ in late 50's early 60's prices) cheaper.Strictly Vickers Type 584/585 sans lift jets and clangbox diverter, and Brough NGTA (blow), were the way to go.
Thing is institutional memory remembered piston aircraft operating from level fields. Hence the term airfield.
Able to move with the battlefront and deliver CAS/BAI as advances drove Nazi Germany back.
V/STOL offered the chance to recover this in a time when conventional aircraft where increasingly needing mile after mile of pristine concrete that imposed ever greater needs of range fuel for the same load.
What was missed was STOL and 'short' runway ops where literally hundreds of millions (£ in late 50's early 60's prices) cheaper.
Strictly Vickers Type 584/585 sans lift jets and clangbox diverter, and Brough NGTA (blow), were the way to go.
