I find these late-1940s British planes to be absolutely lovely, they seem to directly have came from coeval Sci-Fi novels and illustrations. Nowadays' planes by comparison have a "taste" of being cattle-carriers :( :( ...
Interesting engine/propellor arrangement. Air cooled radial sleeve valve Centaurus powerplants. Looks like they were housed either side of the prop nacelles with gaping openings for cooling. Must have been some interesting gear boxes to turn the props. Can't tell if the cooling air was expelled at the trailing edge or where???
One of the videos on this craft shows them testing the engines and gearboxes on a test stand... it's VERY interesting. It's such a shame that this aircraft wasn't preserved!
I used to go out to Malton and watch the planes coming in - they were almost all beautiful / some seemed actual flying works of art but stopped going when every plane became a computer copy of the next ... it was great fun growing up and I'm glad I got the chance, but these days I would be loath to head anywhere near the old place and am given to understand it does not exist.
IN 1951, WE WERE ON HOLIDAY IN WESTON SUPER MARE, AND SAW THIS MASSIVE SILVER PLANE, MAKING A HELL OF A NOISE, EMERGE LIKE A GREAT BIG ZEPPELIN OUT OF THE CLOUDS, QUITE SCARY.
I find these late-1940s British planes to be absolutely lovely, they seem to directly have came from coeval Sci-Fi novels and illustrations. Nowadays' planes by comparison have a "taste" of being cattle-carriers :( :( ...
That is true. I'd love for planes like this to exist. Flying should be something to admire alongside a faster route of transport
"cattle carriers" yup 100% on point there
airliners only think of passengers as money cattle
Just look at the airbus ZEROe. Change is coming soon.
@@nostradamusofgames5508 Yeah,
Interesting engine/propellor arrangement. Air cooled radial sleeve valve Centaurus powerplants. Looks like they were housed either side of the prop nacelles with gaping openings for cooling. Must have been some interesting gear boxes to turn the props. Can't tell if the cooling air was expelled at the trailing edge or where???
One of the videos on this craft shows them testing the engines and gearboxes on a test stand... it's VERY interesting. It's such a shame that this aircraft wasn't preserved!
I used to go out to Malton and watch the planes coming in - they were almost all beautiful / some seemed actual flying works of art but stopped going when every plane became a computer copy of the next ...
it was great fun growing up and I'm glad I got the chance, but these days I would be loath to head anywhere near the old place and am given to understand it does not exist.
I don't think it was scrapped immediately, because I saw it fly. It flow over my infant school regularly in 1949.
IN 1951, WE WERE ON HOLIDAY IN WESTON SUPER MARE, AND SAW THIS MASSIVE SILVER PLANE, MAKING A HELL OF A NOISE, EMERGE LIKE A GREAT BIG ZEPPELIN OUT OF THE CLOUDS, QUITE SCARY.
@@MrDaiseymay Originally it was planned to be flown from Weston, but the runway there was not strong enough.
Flown until 1952. I saw it in formation with the first Britannia. There was a policy of flying over towns to show people what they had paid for.
great flashback in history of flight!!! aircraft l had read about !! but never saw my first flight was a Lockheed Electra !!!! 1964
The clickbait picture is not the Brabazon, it is the later Britannia.
Uau! Um monster😮