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I think that many if not most post-war British designs suffered from this flaw, due to exceedingly poor specifications and egregious interference from the Air Ministry. How an industry which was able to produce such masterpieces as the Spigtfire,

Is this the flying porker variety? Don't forget that they saved our bacon during the battle of crackling creek.

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The Spit and Mossie were Private Ventures.

They were built and flown before the Air Minstry could foul them up.

This is true. I guess the only saving grace is that the British Air Ministry was a perfect lesson in "How Not To Do It" which may at least have spared other countries' aviation industries the same sad fate.

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One of Those Myths - neither the Spitfire nor the Mosquito were private ventures. Both were designed to operational requirements discussed with the designers and funded by the Ministry, with input from the RAE. As indeed is true about every major type introduced into service since WW1, at least.

Just to get really up De Havilland's nose, it was Handley Page who proposed the unarmed bomber concept to the Ministry in the first place.

If you want to know more, chase up Colin Sinnott's book "The RAF and Aircraft Design 1923-39 Air Staff Operational Requirements" Cass 2001, ISBN 0 7146 5158 3. The biography of Air Marshal Wilfred Freeman, who was behind both, is also useful.

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Very, very nice! Hard to believe it's a vacform.

If you think Aircraft planning was bad just look at what they did to the British Tank builders. It was a complete farce. No wonder the Germans took them to bits.

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