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The buzz word is "superpriority" : a quick search across this very forum brings interesting results. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/search/1574218/?q=superpriority&o=relevance My understanding is, it should have been called "superpanicky" instead: the said panic rearmement did a lot of...

Request for a pure research machine April '49. May '50 ordered prototypes. ER.100 Contract placed October ER.103 Gannet Superpriority delayed work. construction summer 1952. First flight 28 Oct 1955. Assuming a supersonic fighter is produced based on this research.

And then Korea happened and we panicked. Superpriority, rearmament, fast track modernisations. Suddenly the US got cosy again. And it when it seemed that we weren't having WWIII early, we were left with a lot of bad rushed decisions and their consequences.

The thing is Fairey hit a delay due to Korea and superpriority. Otherwise this would be ahead of the P1 and P1.B. The Gyron powered offering seem to have high rates of climb and by F.155T the interim Delta II derived offering is certainly large enough to fit AI.18.

A reasonable point of departure really. Maybe a Healthy Eden winning the election? Churchill backing him on basis they agreed on revoking emergency restrictions of WWII. Maybe no superpriority?

You cannot avoid getting things wrong all the time. Often it's how we learn. But.....Superpriority set the scene for compound errors. RAF should never have been allowed to veer off and hand the FAW job to Glosters. Divergence of resources, loss of main customer with only limited numbers ever...

Well we have two factors. 1. The ten year rule in '45 2. Korea Superpriority And the view 1957 is The Year of Maximum Danger. So we have inadequate funding for quite obvious reasons, followed by inadequate development in the Korea scramble to get aircraft into production. And to cap it off...

...I think that the primary programs for the J79 were the B-58 and F-104. I think that it is reasonable to assume that the Air Force held superpriority on the engine at this time. Milestones ** J79-1, -3 and -5 variants** B-45C (test) 20 May 1955 50-Hour Test ?? August 1955 XF4D-1...

...to tote higher performance missiles as in Red Dean, Red Hebe and various other options of radar Firestreak etc. As much as we can see that superpriority messed up the evolutionary processes that were in train. Frankly the abandonment of the Type 556 FAW variant of the Scimitar also haunts this.

...most notably the costs of WWII and the disasterous events of the US loan negotiated by a very ill Keynes. In aviation the mad dash of 'superpriority' for Korea only made matters worse, and this was then exacerbated by the events of Suez. Flexilibity of key staff was not possible, as they had...

...Westland took over the Bristol Helicopter interests. IIRC Reg was of the opinion the Janus project(such as it was), was a victim of the Superpriority production initiative, resultant to the Korean War. It would be fair to say Reg was disappointed with the historical narrative usually applied...

...have to raise wing area further to above 450sqft and thus span of at least 38ft, probably 42ft. Irony is Fairey efforts delayed due to superpriority for Gannet and that rather undermines the pessimistic view of AWA held by AR/ARD(Res) and RAE. DMARD was contact involved in giving AWA the...

...was entirely their fault, naval aviation was very much a secondary priority compared to RAF programmes (the RN had to fight hard to get Superpriority status for the Scimitar) and, in my opinion, the RN could have done with a reset of its aircraft programme circa 1951 (generally things with...

Was the 576 to be the Scimitar Mk 2? If not, any drawings of the Mk 2?

...and thus span of at least 38ft, probably 42ft. But this could rise to 500sqft and 45-50ft span. Irony is Fairey efforts delayed due to superpriority for Gannet and that rather undermines the pessimistic view of AWA held by AR/ARD(Res) and RAE. DMARD was contact involved in giving AWA the...

True, Superpriority became meaningless as the list grew and grew. For me an AH Fighter Command begins circa October 1945 when the RAF ended its interest in the Hawker P.1040 citing its ample supply of Vampires and Meteors. This was short-sighted, the P.1040 had the Nene, a more powerful engine...

...capacity left over from the remnants of smaller companies that had been brought up (Fairey, Airspeed etc.), remnants of wartime and superpriority factory expansion schemes, lots of smaller companies doing odd jobs and throwing in designs as they needed the work and the bigger companies which...