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All's Well

All's Well Aircraft Engineering THE MONTHLY SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ORGAN OF THE AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSION VOL XXII No 257 JULY 1950 performance of the Canberra given during last year's S.B.A.C. Display. Now that the position has been officially cleared up it can HERE is in our opinion no justification for the wave of safely be assumed that a Ministry of Supply programme for the pessimism about the immediate prospects of the British development and supply of this and other types of modern high TAircraft Industry that undoubtedly swept over the country a performance jet bombers is in being and we can look forward hope­ few months ago. This was engendered by the cuts that were exercised fully to announcements from time to time of the appearance of other in the Air Estimates in regard to certain types of aircraft, involving prototypes, some of which we may perhaps even have the privilege the cancellation of orders to some firms. Followed as this was by the of viewing in September. appearance over here of a number of American bomber squadrons It is well known that considerable orders are on hand for the it was not perhaps surprising that the feeling developed that the axe equipment of the Royal Air Force Fighter and Training Commands. was about to fall more widely. The view spread that we were going The economic position of the British Aircraft Industry can therefore to hand over to the United States the provision of heavy bombers, be viewed, if without complacency, at least with sober confidence. with serious results for a larger number of firms in the British industry. The Technical Position Technically, of course, it is unquestionably in a very sound con­ Unjustified Panic dition. In spite of all that has been written in the way of propaganda Very wide publicity was given to the cancellation of the orders to in America there is no reason to doubt that the fighters with which the which we have referred. This was only natural in the circumstances, Royal Air Force is equipped—or to be re-equipped—are at least the but the fact was made insufficiently clear that it was only Transport equal in performance and operational attributes of those of any other Command of the Royal Air Force that was the target for the nation—as is shown by the number of countries who have adopted economies. Actually, the presence of American Air Force units in them as part of the Western Europe defence plan. In recent months this country is mainly an operational move to give the men con­ several training types, both for initial tuition and advanced pre­ cerned an experience of conditions in Europe which they would paration for flying the jet-fighters, of high merit have been produced otherwise be unable to obtain. The position has recently been and are shortly to be delivered to Training Command. The lead we clarified by an important announcement in the House of Lords when continue to maintain in jet engines, combined with the general high LORD ALEXANDER made it abundantly clear that the Government had standard of aeroplane design, assures us of retaining the position no intention of limiting the activities of the Royal Air Force to fighters we held five years ago in heavy bombers. So far as civil aircraft are and short-range defensive bombers and handing over the supply, and concerned, the days of the doldrums are over and we now have use, of heavy bombers for long-range strategic bombing operations achieved an ascendancy which will enable us to sweep the field in jet- to another nation. propulsion and turbo-prop airliners during the next two or three years. This has undoubtedly given our American friends furiously A Lesson from the Past to think—as is evidenced by the letters we receive from across the Atlantic. We all know the disastrous effects on commercial aircraft of the monopoly given to the United States during the late war in transport Ground for Optimism aircraft—from which so many of the civil aeroplanes still flying have been developed. Britain in this regard has only just begun to recover All of which considerations confirm what we wrote at the begin­ her position—thanks to the Comet pure jet and the several turbo­ ning of this article. In whichever direction one looks—whether on prop types which are in process of development from the prototypes the military or civil side and regarding small or large machines, in which have already appeared. If the production of military heavy which connexion the Brabazon looms portentously in the background bombers were now similarly to be transferred to the United States— —the prospects of the industry are indubitably bright. No doubt or any other country—throwing away all the accumulated know­ orders are not as large as might be desired—they never are in our ledge gained in designing and producing the outstanding war-time industry except in times of war—but the dribble of a few years ago examples of that type of aeroplane it would indeed be a serious has grown in volume to a steady flow and those suppliers to the matter. aircraft industry who have turned their attention to other fields would do well, we believe, to restore the brightness of their averted Jet-Bombers looks and again devote some at any rate of their attention to an in­ dustry which is now re-establishing itself after its years of post-war That we in this country are still in the forefront in this sphere recession. was clearly demonstrated by the remarkable exhibitions of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology Emerald Publishing

All's Well

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Aircraft Engineering THE MONTHLY SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ORGAN OF THE AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING PROFESSION VOL XXII No 257 JULY 1950 performance of the Canberra given during last year's S.B.A.C. Display. Now that the position has been officially cleared up it can HERE is in our opinion no justification for the wave of safely be assumed that a Ministry of Supply programme for the pessimism about the immediate prospects of the British development and supply of this and other types of modern high TAircraft Industry that undoubtedly swept over the country a performance jet bombers is in being and we can look forward hope­ few months ago. This was engendered by the cuts that were exercised fully to announcements from time to time of the appearance of other in the Air Estimates in regard to certain types of aircraft, involving prototypes, some of which we may perhaps even have the privilege the cancellation of orders to some firms. Followed as this was by the of viewing in September. appearance over here of a number of American bomber squadrons It is well known that considerable orders are on hand for the it was not perhaps surprising that the feeling developed that the axe equipment of the Royal Air Force Fighter and Training Commands. was about to fall more widely. The view spread that we were going The economic position of the British Aircraft Industry can therefore to hand over to the United States the provision of heavy bombers, be viewed, if without complacency, at least with sober confidence. with serious results for a larger number of firms in the British industry. The Technical Position Technically, of course, it is unquestionably in a very sound con­ Unjustified Panic dition. In spite of all that has been written in the way of propaganda Very wide publicity was given to the cancellation of the orders to in America there is no reason to doubt that the fighters with which the which we have referred. This was only natural in the circumstances, Royal Air Force is equipped—or to be re-equipped—are at least the but the fact was made insufficiently clear that it was only Transport equal in performance and operational attributes of those of any other Command of the Royal Air Force that was the target for the nation—as is shown by the number of countries who have adopted economies. Actually, the presence of American Air Force units in them as part of the Western Europe defence plan. In recent months this country is mainly an operational move to give the men con­ several training types, both for initial tuition and advanced pre­ cerned an experience of conditions in Europe which they would paration for flying the jet-fighters, of high merit have been produced otherwise be unable to obtain. The position has recently been and are shortly to be delivered to Training Command. The lead we clarified by an important announcement in the House of Lords when continue to maintain in jet engines, combined with the general high LORD ALEXANDER made it abundantly clear that the Government had standard of aeroplane design, assures us of retaining the position no intention of limiting the activities of the Royal Air Force to fighters we held five years ago in heavy bombers. So far as civil aircraft are and short-range defensive bombers and handing over the supply, and concerned, the days of the doldrums are over and we now have use, of heavy bombers for long-range strategic bombing operations achieved an ascendancy which will enable us to sweep the field in jet- to another nation. propulsion and turbo-prop airliners during the next two or three years. This has undoubtedly given our American friends furiously A Lesson from the Past to think—as is evidenced by the letters we receive from across the Atlantic. We all know the disastrous effects on commercial aircraft of the monopoly given to the United States during the late war in transport Ground for Optimism aircraft—from which so many of the civil aeroplanes still flying have been developed. Britain in this regard has only just begun to recover All of which considerations confirm what we wrote at the begin­ her position—thanks to the Comet pure jet and the several turbo­ ning of this article. In whichever direction one looks—whether on prop types which are in process of development from the prototypes the military or civil side and regarding small or large machines, in which have already appeared. If the production of military heavy which connexion the Brabazon looms portentously in the background bombers were now similarly to be transferred to the United States— —the prospects of the industry are indubitably bright. No doubt or any other country—throwing away all the accumulated know­ orders are not as large as might be desired—they never are in our ledge gained in designing and producing the outstanding war-time industry except in times of war—but the dribble of a few years ago examples of that type of aeroplane it would indeed be a serious has grown in volume to a steady flow and those suppliers to the matter. aircraft industry who have turned their attention to other fields would do well, we believe, to restore the brightness of their averted Jet-Bombers looks and again devote some at any rate of their attention to an in­ dustry which is now re-establishing itself after its years of post-war That we in this country are still in the forefront in this sphere recession. was clearly demonstrated by the remarkable exhibitions of the

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