Brabazon Committee - Report

Report

The report identified four, later five, types of aircraft that would be required after the war.

  • Type I was a very large transatlantic airliner serving the high-volume routes like London-New York, seating its passengers in luxury for the 12-hour trip.
  • Type II was a short haul feederliner intended to replace the Douglas DC-3 and de Havilland Dragon Rapide, although BEA suggested a larger and much more capable design. Type II was later split into two designs, IIA was a piston-powered aircraft, and the IIB would use the new turboprop engine.
  • Type III called for a larger medium-range aircraft for various multi-hop routes serving the British Empire.
  • Type IV was the most advanced of them all, a jet-powered 100-seat design. It was added at the personal urging of one of the committee members, Geoffrey de Havilland whose company was involved in development of both Britain's first jet fighters and jet engines. The Type IV could, if the whole concept of a jet airliner could be made to work, be able to replace the Type III outright, and many of the duties of the other planes in shorter routes.
  • Type V was later introduced to fill the original feederliner specifications after the Type II had evolved into larger designs.

The committee published versions of the report several times between August 1943 and November 1945, each time further solidifying the specification of one of the types.

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