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Originally Posted by DavidIsby
It wasn't the RAF's idea. Most of the documentation in the NA (Kew) is in FO files. The policy did not get far enough along for the Air Ministry to be seriously engaged in operational details.
Of course, the Air Ministry was ordering massive amounts of anything that promised results. Like Avro Manchesters off the drawing board, Or creatures like the Brewster Bermuda dive-bomber.
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Not only the above but Botha's (hideously bothasome!), Barracuda's,
Battle's (long after their annihilation in France), Blackburn B.20's etc. It is
miracle the Mossie emerged at all but like another success story against
all odds, the later Viscount, it was a private venture! What might have
been the story if at least half of that wasted effort had been spent instead
on the Martin Baker project.
Rgds, Muscateer.