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<blockquote data-quote="red admiral" data-source="post: 51114" data-attributes="member: 219"><blockquote><p>As usual for the UK we shot ourselves in the foot, could have had a turbofan by 1945....</p></blockquote><p></p><p>We did, in the Metrovick F.3 aft fan - which actually worked. It was just more complicated to produce than centrifugal types and didn't offer enough performance gain (as the F.2). The F.3 with the larger diameter becomes harder to fit into nacelles or fuselages.</p><p></p><p>If you have a look through BSP there are actually quite a lot of period bomber projects powered by the Metrovick F.3 instead of centrifugal type engines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="red admiral, post: 51114, member: 219"] [quote]As usual for the UK we shot ourselves in the foot, could have had a turbofan by 1945....[/quote] We did, in the Metrovick F.3 aft fan - which actually worked. It was just more complicated to produce than centrifugal types and didn't offer enough performance gain (as the F.2). The F.3 with the larger diameter becomes harder to fit into nacelles or fuselages. If you have a look through BSP there are actually quite a lot of period bomber projects powered by the Metrovick F.3 instead of centrifugal type engines. [/QUOTE]
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