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The Miles M.52 was cancelled because Frank Whittle failed to produce the supersonic capable engine he had promised... Whittle was at this time deep in the grips of drug and alcohol addiction and would be removed from his own company when the program was cancelled. Whittle would be exiled to drug rehab in America to save the new government any further embarrassment...his reputation among his peers so tainted he would never work in the british aerospace industry ever again.
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Many WW1 aircraft had horizontal stabilators... The Wright Flyer had them too
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The problem was after the Tizzard Mission the US knew the brits were not ahead in the technology race... when the UK began to default on its 60 billion dollar war loan assistance to had to be cut off.
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The M.52 was cancelled before design work was completed and any significant construction work started, a simple visual comparision confirms the design are unrelated. The Bell X-1 was not based on any design or data produced in the UK, Bell Aircraft and the United States were years ahead of the Miles company and the UK.
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The truth is the Miles M.52 was cancelled because Frank Whittle failed to produce the supersonic capable engine he had promised... Whittle was by this time deep in the grip of drug and alcohol addiction and would be removed from his own company when the program was cancelled. Whittle would be exiled to drug rehab in America to save the new government any further embarrassment...his reputation among his peers so tainted he would never work in the british aerospace industry ever again.
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@David Elliot The Miles M.52 also had no chance of breaking the sound barrier first... the cancellation reeks of waste, fraud, incompetence and government cover-up. The M.52 was cancelled because Frank Whittle bodged the engine design and without an engine the M.52 could not proceed. I think you need to check your facts son... the Bell X-1 looks nothing like the Miles M.52 because the Miles M.52 WAS NEVER BUILT.
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Bear shit... an appropriate name after all...
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Indeed, the Whittle W.B.2/700 engine never produced the specified thrust required to go supersonic and never successfully completed a full power test without damage... Whittle abandoned the project just before he was forced out of his own company Power Jets, and exiled to drug rehab in the U.S. The UK government had no choice but to cancel both programs.
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Not really, the brits lagged behind the Germans and the Americans in supersonic research.
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@David Elliot Rolls-Royce SOLD the Nene to the Soviets because no Western aircraft manufacturers wanted to buy the over-sized and under-powered Nene. The Klimov KV-1 is a significantly redesigned and improved engine producing 1,000 lbs more thrust.
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The UK aero industry began after WW2 producing a long line of white elephant projects and epic failures that let to today where aircraft are no longer designed or built by british companies. The pattern being that aircraft from the UK were not very good...
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@David Elliott The world's first unmanned supersonic vehicles were designed and mass produced in Germany during WW2... the very same German supersonic windtunnel used by the Nazis in WW2 was also used to design the vehicle that put man on the moon.
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+JohnyG29 Neither invention was actually british, the Stabilator was used on the Wright Flyer and found on many aircraft during WW1. The Jumo 109 -004E was the world's first afterburning turbojet engine.
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@David Elliot British spies like Klaus Fuchs STOLE implosion technology from the U.S.A. It was not only illegal for the US government to share nuclear secrets with UK, the Labor party government was infested with Soviet spies... it was only after the UK proved its nuclear programs were secure did the US begin to share technology with the brits.
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@David Elliot An interesting theory but you seem to omit the fact that the United States tested a atomic bomb 7 years before the british did... that huge lead in technology is rather difficult for you to so easily explain away isn't it???
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Another famous white elephant project.
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The Miles M52 would never take-off under its own power because the Whittle W.B.2/700 engine was a total fiasco... it did not produce the specified thrust required to go supersonic and never successfully completed a full power test without damage... Whittle abandoned the project when he was removed from his own company Power Jets ltd. and exiled to drug rehab in the US, the uncompleted W.B.2/700 was canceled. The UK government had no choice but to cancel the now embarrassing, over-budget and behind schedule debacle that is now remembered as the M.52 fiasco, a plane that never was.
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Logic of governments: Lets hired a drug addicted, alcoholic war hero to develop the supersonic engine and when its discovered that the engine is a total failure, cancel the program, cover-up the whole embarrassing fiasco and exile Whittle to drug rehab in the United States and tell him to never show his face in the UK again.
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@Dubsy You are not familiar with the Power Jets W.2/700 and W.2/800 engines designed by Frank Whittle??? Frank Whittle promised that a single example of this engine would propel the Miles M.52 to supersonic velocities.. but two of them installed in a Gloster "meatbox" only managed to boost its top speed 40 MPH!!!! Frank Whittle was accused of embezzling funds from the Miles M.52 program, lying about the W.2/700's performance, was facing criminal charges of assault and battery and was unfit to continue work. He was forcefully removed from his own company, the Miles M.52 and W.2/700 programs were cancelled and Frank Whittle was exiled to a drug rehab facility in the United States to cover-up the scandal.
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On Aug. 19th 1944, Luftwaffe pilot Heinz Herlitzius took off from Flugplatz Leipheim and reached a record top speed in level flight for air breathing combat aircraft of 624mph (1004km/h) in a Messerschmitt Me 262 (an official DAC record). This was the fastest flight of a production combat aircraft until the F-86 Sabre in Sept 14, 1948 at 670mph.
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@David Elliot The Power Jets W.2 never entered production. The Rolls-Royce Welland and the Derwent were both designed by Adrian Lombard.
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