Bristol Brabazon

摘要

In December 1942, even as World War II was still raging, the British government felt sufficiently confident of victory to form a committee to determine what types of aircraft Britain's airline industry would require after the conflict. Headed by Air Minister John T.C. Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, the so-called Brabazon Committee came up with a series of recommendations for five different categories of airliners. By far the most ambitious was its "Type 1," which specified a 100-ton, eight-engine, land-based airliner capable of carrying 100 passengers a distance of 5,500 miles at a cruising speed of 250 mph.