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WI if the Comets had never crashed and had been a complete success? Would an enthused, envigorated and fully financed UK air industry with a 5 year lead on the US have been unassailable at least until the 70s?
Would most of the west's airliners today have been British or of British design eg with the harder to service but aerodynamically superior wing embedded Comet-style engines, instead of the US style podded ones?
Would airliners today look something like eg the Handley Page HP111 version of the Victor bomber
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/victor/history.html
Or was the superceding of the Brits by the Boeing type designs inevitable?
Would most of the west's airliners today have been British or of British design eg with the harder to service but aerodynamically superior wing embedded Comet-style engines, instead of the US style podded ones?
Would airliners today look something like eg the Handley Page HP111 version of the Victor bomber
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/victor/history.html
Or was the superceding of the Brits by the Boeing type designs inevitable?