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Re: Reggiane 2000 for RAF!
The Mossie was not a private venture: it followed on from prewar studies of unmanned bombers from Handley Page and the RAE, and was supported throughout by the Air Ministry. It was DeH who made such a good job of it, but anything more is myth.
There are a lot of claims made about private ventures, even in the Official History, but few of them bear up under study of the records of the time.
The Martin Baker designs were supported, but there was an inability to deliver on time. There must be some doubt that any real product was ever expected, but it kept a clever designer happy at fairly small expense. Given that the Typhoon flew prewar, and the Tempest was in service in mid-1944, there was never any real chance that they were going to be converted into production machines in useful timescales. The real future was in jets.
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