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From the 50s onwards there almost seems to have been a scorched earth policy in the UK with regards to cancelled projects where considerable effort seems to have been put into destroying everything involved with the project. With aircraft, prototypes and tooling were destroyed, sketches, notes and documentation are significantly easier to dispose up than those.Any idea why this occurs? It almost seems to be an all or nothing attitude, the decision has been made so any means of reversing it is removed from the equation all together. Even retiring platforms, rather than being placed in reserve appear to be sold or scrapped in next to no time, almost strikes me as arrogance, a "we are right to do this" and ensuring no one is ever able to prove them wrong.
From the 50s onwards there almost seems to have been a scorched earth policy in the UK with regards to cancelled projects where considerable effort seems to have been put into destroying everything involved with the project. With aircraft, prototypes and tooling were destroyed, sketches, notes and documentation are significantly easier to dispose up than those.
Any idea why this occurs? It almost seems to be an all or nothing attitude, the decision has been made so any means of reversing it is removed from the equation all together. Even retiring platforms, rather than being placed in reserve appear to be sold or scrapped in next to no time, almost strikes me as arrogance, a "we are right to do this" and ensuring no one is ever able to prove them wrong.
