This Giant Airliner Even Had A Movie Theater: The Bristol Brabazon
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With a wingspan greater than a Boeing 747, The Bristol Brabazon was the largest aircraft ever built by Britain. More a flying oceanliner than plane, it featured sleeping cabins, a dining room, a cocktail bar and lounge, and even a 23 seat movie theater.
The Brabazon was also fitted with cutting edge innovations. A fully pressurized, air conditioned cabin. Electric engine controls, and high-pressure hydraulics to operate its massive control surfaces. It’s enormous wing housed more than 16 thousand gallons of fuel, and eight of the most powerful piston engines available. While the first Brabazon used piston engines, later Brabazon were to use turboprop engines that were being developed by Bristol.
The Bristol Brabazon would have true transatlantic capability. Able to fly non-stop from London to New York against prevailing eastern winds. In the 1940’s, this would have been quite the feat. Transatlantic flights were almost always done in stages to allow for refueling.
Despite introducing new innovations, many of which influenced the future of aviation, the Brabazon’s driving philosophy was outdated. The Brabazon’s mission was to compete with ocean liners for ultra-wealthy passengers. But this lumbering, super-sized airliner would have been introduced with airlines for 1950’s, right around when the first jet airliners, like the De Havilland Comet, were taking to the skies. Aircraft like the Dash 80, which would become the 707, were also just around the corner, and would bring a transatlantic crossing down to as little as 7 hours.
After a massive design and development effort, Britain found itself stuck with a plane nobody actually wanted, designed for an era that no longer existed.The program was cancelled and the Brabazon, and half finished turboprop successor were sold for their weight in scrap. #BristolBrabazon #BritishAviation #WhiteElephant #Airplanes
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As a child in the 1950s i remember my father taking us to see a huge pile of scrap which he told us used to be the Brabazon. I am now in my 70s and have for some strange reason retained the memory
nice
Woah,how lucky,I wish i could see one but yeah time passed.
That’s crazy!
They say that important memories are kept in a special place in our brains that even after time we can still remember it clearly l.
Lies
"What's it for?"
"Oh, it will redefine luxury."
"So... it will fail very soon?"
Why do people only care about something else
@@jocelynuy2922 well cost?
if something i really worth paying thats completely ok, thats why we still got wired headphones that cost thousands of bucks. because they are a result of research and development that provide really good user experience. same goes for everything.
but if something is expensive just because if its price premium than you got a problem. sure the passengers of th,s plane would be able to relax, but they would be more comfortable on a hotel suit or a transatlantic; where you are not bombarded by the noise of the engines.
Laughs in economy transatlantic flight
"How about screen for every seat and first class cabin instead?"
@@mehmetgurdal if the brabizon was design to carry as many passengers at once it would work decently at the time
@jiyoun park welp. Still could have been a cool idea tho
It's unbelievably sad for me to hear this wonderful plane was destroyed along with it's sister craft. The thing should've been put in a museum for the sake of aviation history!
It's the same with many planes, tanks, ships and anything else big. The problem is this thing is so large no one has the space to house it, and the very few that do are probably using it for more significant aircraft.
@@impguardwarhamer Good point
@@impguardwarhamer very good point indeed!
… meh … it was scuttled because it was a national embarrassment. They could have parked the darn thing next to the Convair B-36 “Peacemaker” in Ft. Worth and call it a day. 🙄
It made more flights than did the Hughes Hercules (aka The Spruce Goose) but it didn't have an eccentric billionaire to store it away for decades.
I must say, that airborne, the Brabazon makes a handsome aircraft.
David Green
I wish someone had one fully restored that still flew!
Imagine if it was kept as a museum plane
It takes rather a long time getting there though.
Like a zeppelin with wings.
...from a more civilized time.
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They demolished a whole village (Charlton) to extend the runway to enable it to take-off - which, as it turned out, it didn’t need. I grew up near Filton and my dad watched the maiden flight.
Very cool
Totally what the brits do!!Its illarious!!
Nothing says confidence like over guessing in case you need it
The amount of pissed off hissing can still be heard to this very day.
Yes, I remember the famous Brabazon too! It was named after the aircraft minister of the time. At the time I lived in Lawrence Weston, North Bristol, so was well placed to see it flying overhead. How long was it in service, does anyone know?
Felt sad that this incredible plane was sold in scrap.
I never understand this. Why do people lack the vision that someday this plane would be more valuable than simply selling the parts?
ATX NATION Because it wasn’t? In a few years jet engines would surpass propellers
@@ralphyznaga1761 It takes time and if there is embarrassment over it, making it 'disappear' would be attractive. I'll compare that to B-29. Thousands of them were built. The Air Force started scrapping them in the 1950s. By the 1970s they were thought to be extinct with no surviving copies. Only a handful of airframes survived in California and Delaware. It took them sitting for 20+ years for people to realize their historical value and need for preservation. Today, there are about 30 of them left. My point is that a failed program that has tied up resources for far too long, no one is thinking preservation. They are thinking 'get out from under it.' There was no space for vision to exist in that paradigm, yet.
@@ralphyznaga1761 because people dont value old things back then.
The Paradox : it should have survived in a museum...
I absolutely adore your channel. Loads of interesting information under as little as 10 minutes, the animations are absolutely flawless, keep it going! I’ve been watching your videos since the Tu-144 video was rolled out :D. Thank you!
frightone well, I can highly recommend a short documentary about the DH Comet by WTTW producer John Davies available on YT, or a two-part doc from BBC about the history of british aviation. But unfortunately, I’m not familiar with such a channel like Mustard
No
This concept more or less was successfully realised in the Tu-114, even with an initial nod to comfort and luxury. It had the very powerful engines needed, but the noise of its contra-rotating props was legendary, still heard in the Tu-95 and derivatives, the Russian equivalent of the B-52.
The Tu-144 never had turbo props it had after burning turbo jets.
@@jasonirwin4631 Dude he's talking about 114.
The reason why we all love mustard’s video this much us because of the insane amount of efforts this guy puts in his video and his passion for the subject.
I actually wouldn't care much about how fast it went, because that means more time with the luxuries onboard
That's actually a good point...
The UK is great at building planes that nobody wants.
On point ... and they love the Royals, although every other person in the world hates them (except Idiots).
As what one Londoner would say:"We got there first and now were the worst."
alberto sobieski I’m not British lol.
@@madwolf0966 Obviously. You have good teeth.
Paul Sale Britain has some of the best dental care on the planet, that stereotype is so outdated.
A good deal of the engineering advances that went into the Brabazon were later incorporated into the Bristol Britannia. The Proteus engines being the major items, the final incarnation of the engines that were planned to go into the second Brabazon. The Britannia proved very popular with the charter airlines of the late 60's and early 70's, and passengers liked it for its comfort and quietness compared to the 737-100 and the BAC1-11 for example. The Britannia was in effect a much scaled down version of what the Brabazon could have been.
The Bristol Britannia would also later be used to develop the Canadair Argus, Canada’s premiere patrol bomber.
I flew Heathrow to Shannon on a Britannia in 1962. The first one developed engine trouble twice and BOAC ended up putting us all on a 2nd Britannia for a third and successful flight. It looked and felt like a great aircraft. Legroom in economy was tight, however, for my 6’4” frame; my knees were pressing into the seat back in front of me!
After many flights on turbocharged piston planes flying from Heathrow to Malaya in the early 50s I recall my first flight on the Britannia. It was so much faster, smoother and quieter. It was also spacious inside. Beautiful plane and such a step up from piston engines. In later years I flew the Comet and again another step up in quietness and smoothness. Luckily I just dodged the one that exploded due to window failure.
Mustard, your work is amazing, the background information makes the magic paired with the visuals and sound. Keep up the great work! Greetings from Switzerland.
Why does not this channel have 10 million subscribers?
Filipe because it's not good enough
Give it some time😎
Because most people have no brains
Filipe i agree the animation is phenomenal
Unfortunately Mini-docs about failed aircraft from the middle of last century is probably too niche for the UA-cam algorithm, which is a damn shame to be honest, because even the production value on these videos is higher than some larger channels :(
that engine layout is bananas, 8 x V-16s, all reciprocating, all iron... it is amazing it flew at all.
"Bristol Brabazon" is the most rock-n-roll name of plane in history :)
I cal almost smell the fuel and shaving cream! ✈️💪🏼
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@@Mick_92 are u a bot
@@VBoeing Yes.
It's a silly name
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The funny thing is that I think the Brabazon could have stood a chance if they'd just ditched the luxury thought and went the far opposite direction. The ultimate in bulk passenger transport. That thing could've rivaled a 747 in pure numbers--sure you wouldn't get there early, but with that many people funding your flight, you get what you pay for. Besides, if it already had that A/C system, that'd be fine to help out with the numbers.
The Boeing 707 entered service in 1959 with turbo jet engines by 1962 Boeing had improved it with JT3D Turbofan Engines and other refinements. All of those British aircraft that came out of Brabazon committee such as Brabazon, Comet, Viscount, Britannia were so late they were destroyed by the 707 and DC8. Only the viscount succeeded. Latter aircraft such as the VC10, Vanguard also missed the mark.
So they all really needed to get into service by around 1950. The US industry had the Constellation/Super Constellation/Stratocruiser/DC4/6/7.
Speed is not just about passenger's time, to airlines it means more travels thus more revenue.
@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs ... what are you on about? The Comet entered service in 1952. The issue was the fact it was basically exploding due a design flaw that grounded the whole fleet and prevented sales years before the 707. The 707s design and the DC8s were actually influenced by the lessons learned by the Comet. It is likely that had the roles been reversed the DC8 or 707 being first they would have suffered the same issues as the Comet as they design language of High Altitude aircraft changed because of the unforeseen endurance flaws in the comet.
@@KazikluPrior to the Comet 1 blowing up in mid air two of them crashed due to stalling during take-off rotation. The Comet could stall on the runway, in fact it pitched up into the stall. It was a POS that was never air worthy.
@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs The Comet 1 was for sure.. which is why all 22 were scrapped. The Comet 2 and 4 both came out before the 707.
This means they couldn't have been so late they were destroyed by the 707 which is the point of contention.
The later Comets were perfectly good aircraft. Had the Comet 1's major flaws, the ones that the 707 and DC8 learned from which in developed for 5 more years.. (the 707 flew the first time 3 years after the Comets were grounded and 2 years after the major issues with the air frame were discovered. ) are what killed it. Not the 707.
Comets were still flying into the 90s and the Nimrod until 2011. Now there are still 707s in the air though they were being produced a lot longer.
The problem was designing a plane with piston engines in an era when jets were arising.
More like economical problem, Brabazon could have been a success if they can redesign it as economic-class seats only plane
That’s not an issue. In the 1950s piston planes were still widely used it was mainly in the 1960s where jets really took off.
@@emmaherron5121 Plus the Brabazon were already designed to use the more powerful turboprop engines
@@emmaherron5121 The B36 used piston engines in a similarly big, heavy but slow aeroplane and it certainly was an issue in many respects.
@@09onine This would have turned it into an earlier and likely considerably slower Tu-114. It might have worked to some degree but even with the Tu-114's competitive speed, those weren't built in particularly large numbers either, so the success of a turboprop Brabazon doesn't look at all certain.
So beautiful.
This is one helluva channel. I have never been this happy discovering new channel before. Thank you!
Even though Mustard also has a video on that plane. The title is wrong. The Saunders Roe Princess is significantly larger than the Brabazon.
You honestly remind me of Ahoy, and that's an great thing, your editing is also unique and I very much enjoy it.
You are very satisfying with your videos, combining your commentary well with the actual videos and edited scenes that you use.
Looking forward to where your channel goes and happy to be here with you for your fast start to UA-cam.
Keep up the great work, your content is very interesting.
Urban_Foxtrot ”you are editing”
very true. I think I found mustard from an ahoy video. glad I did. the animations are gorgeous.
Honestly, the music in all your video's are on point
This plane is beatutifull
Except for those underpowered shit engines, lol. Just by looking at the props, you can see that they're not big enough to adequately power the aircraft. 😂
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The Tu-114 was the real deal. 😊👍
Oh Lawd Piston engines were only intended an interim.
Oh Lawd it had 6 Bristol centaurs, one of the most powerful radial engines ever made.
@@ohlawd3699 Now THAT was a plane.
Vickers VC-10 please!
...its coming
o.0
Mustard then do the VC-10ski, the il-62
Superb. I never understood why it didn't sell, it was a brilliant aircraft that could fly faster and use more difficult airports than Boeing's of the time. It was like a British Lockheed TriStar - great but no buyers ?
Gotta thank BOAC for that, couldn't wait for the VC10 they asked for and took the 707. They operated both for a time but from what I understand, the VC10 wasn't able to shine so much no thanks to the 707s earlier service entry.
4:12 miata guys: hmmmmm that will totally fit into my car
The Brabazon was orignally an "100-ton" class strategic bomber designed in 1943 by Bristol and the 8 engines were put at the back of the wings (pushing) instead of conventional layout. The take-off weight of that bomber is 130 tons. And it could carry two 22,000lbs bombs, the "Grand Slam". Actually, the bomb load was 2 tons more than the US XB-36 design at the same time. (However, XB-36 evolved into B-36 but the Bristol "100-ton" became Brabazon.)
By the way, the Brabazon could be call an 8-engined aircraft as well as a 4-engined aircraft. Two coupled Centaurus 57 engines made one Centaurus 20 engine in Bristol Company database. So, the Brabazon got 8 Centaurus 57 engines or 4 Centaurus 20 engines.
As a Brit myself, I find it interesting the number of times Britain looks back technically speaking, rather than forwards. A documentary about High Speed 1, HS1, the first purpose built High Speed Rail line in Britain, talked about how the Eurostar (the High Speed train that connects London to Paris, Brussels and (more recently) Amsterdam) "as soon as it emerges from the Channel Tunnel, the Eurostar shares tracks with 20th Century trains moving at 19th Century speeds," so rather than running at the full 186mph (300kph) they're capable of, on 25kv AC overhead wires, they (until 2007) ran on an outdated 750v DC third rail system with a top speed of 90mph and on the run to the original terminal at the London end at Waterloo, they'd barely reach 50mph and sometimes even barely move at walking pace seemingly
True, Britain has one if the worst railway in Europe. Spain' s and Italy's trains are fast, clean and elegant. And the fastest train in the UK
is actually Italian technology.
@Mundo 2024 part of the problem is that there seems to be in many places in Britain that when it comes to major infrastructure projects have a "Not In My Back Yard" (NIMBY) mentality. Even from the early days of railways. One quote from the documentary "Ian Hislop Goes Off The Rails" mentions one of these mindsets from the time (1840's and 1850's):
"Railways have set all the towns of Britain a-dancing. Reading is coming up to London, Basingstoke is going up from Gosport or Southampton, confusingly waltzing in a state of progressive disillusion and know not where the end of the death dance will be for them."
@Mundo 2024 another example is in a one off documentary I'd recommend watching, "Ian Hislop Goes Off The Rails," there was one point in that, while watching an old Newsreel of a streamlined train running between London and Newcastle that claimed it was "keeping up the prestige of Britain's railways," but as Ian Hislop himself noted, it wasn't really the case:
"By the 1930's British steam trains were smashing International Records. It looked wonderful, it looked like progress, but sadly, it was exactly the opposite. While we were still in love with steam [as a form of traction], other countries were already heavily investing in really modern technology, like high speed diesel and electric traction,"
Wait I swear you had 700k sub's???
I thought he had 7 billion subs
This channel is so underrated
Never a truer word spoken!
Man, how I wish all those planes where still out there to visit...
Visit Tucson, AZ. They have an air museum with amazing aircraft from the whole history. You can go back 2-3 times just because there are so many historical gems that you can't take in, in one afternoon.
Looks like the Comet mixed with Tu-114 xD
The Tu-114 was just as bad though, crashed all the time xD.
no crashes with the extremly reliable Tu 114 who was basicaly a civilian Tu95 and use long time without problems on lines Moscow-Tokyo and Moscow- La Havana: you confuse with Tu 144 (concordsky)...
Ibirdball The Tu-114 had only 1 fatal accident xD
The Tu-114 looks like it came straight from a bomber project with that glass nose (which... it actually did so)
Sigui Tim XD true
Whats the song called at the beginning 0:02
@@DutchDriverr I FOUND IT
It's "Wells Street" by the "Bobby Christian Rock Band"
I think you should make a video about the MIG-25. It gets almost no attention at all despite its technological importance and overall craziness.
....you're not going to have to wait very long for a video about the Mig-25 ;)
I guess my suggestion was a relevant one :D
One last thing, I think it could be extremely interesting to, in addition to the usual technical background, you would also include some of its combat records. Mostly these crazy planes remain as concepts, it'd be great to show everyone how one that was actually built performed in combat.
I agree with you. It should be somehow linked to the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow. Many military experts believe that the MiG-25 interceptor and its performance which were surprisingly close to that of the CF-105 Arrow is the result of Soviet espionage.
Atlast another plane video. I love watching videos about planes while eating Mustard.
Irony about this plane is that it offered 1960s version of what Air Emirates offers today with A380.
OMG UR RIGHT!!!
As an ex EK pilot - they mastered smoke and mirrors! I was right seat on the 7s but the A380 economy is worse than QF or Singapore but they have 9 or so seats up front that give you access to a shower so there is that. Just ignore the FA suicide rate.
"Totally captivated by the sheer size of these machines!"
So depressing. Could've been an amazing airline.
For anyone wondering, the oceanliner at the 30 second mark, is called the SS Normandie
This is a really high quality video
“How would you describe Brittan?”
Me:
I'd love to have flown one of these just once.
me too
I would love to see these in the sky again. Even just once
sad news, the plans for it are lost :_(
but on a positive note we got footage of it flying!
me too
chef buy yíú one
The Bristol Britannia took its place, but it, too, was much delayed, and although it went into service, it was soon done in by the jets. However, had large turboprops been perfected in time, the Brabazon could have been useful. The Soviets developed the Tu-114 from the Tu-95 bomber, and it was very big, fast, very noisy and quite safe. The American B-36 bomber was perhaps nearest to the Brabazon as an aircraft concept, but it was well powered with "six turning, four burning".
I was screaming “Aw come on!” when the other planes beat the Brabazon!
This is a fantastic channel! Love all this retro technica stuff! Maybe you could do one on the soviet ekroplanes? Keep up the good work!
Curios Droid did
I was sculling around St. Ives harbour in 1952 and heard a strange low rumbling sound. Over St.Ives bay appeared the Brabazon which seemed to take an age to fly over. The last word in passenger comfort, off it went....into the scrap yard. A brave effort in an Age when aircraft development was everywhere; some successful, some not.
Everyone: avengers: end game was the most ambitious movie
Britain: *hold my teabag mate*
*mate hold my teabag
@@maxhunt5702 ah yes my mistake thank you
6:55 What a jazzy send-off
I knew a guy who grew up in Bristol and recalls seeing it in flight. A white elephant, sure but I would rather have flown on it than on the early Comets that had a nasty habit of falling apart in the air.
As I'm Bristolian myself, I met & worked with people over the years who's Dad's & Grandads worked on Brabazon and had lots of memorabilia & personal photos , some of which aided a local history video (VHS) in the 90's all about the Brabazon story. The Airbus "East Bay" hangar is still known locally as Brabs. Did you know that they had to lengthen the existing runway for Brabazon, demolishing a whole village in the process? Crazy stuff 👍
This plane looks like the plane in my dreams with infinite power and a magic fridge which would give any dish but less cooler version
yes flying hötél chéf grtbgvyiú one too
History of British aviation:
Everyone else: jeez, that's a nice plane you've built there . . .
Britain: Yeh? Thanks!
Everyone else: be a shame if noone . . . Bought any . . .
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Harrier Jump-Jet> ‘You were saying?’
Vickers Viscount was a world-first and a huge commercial success all over the world.
@John Higgins I'd say that out of the BAC 1-11 and its primary competition (737 and DC-9) the others did just a little better sales wise . . .
@John Higgins I never argued that British built planes weren't impressive . . . The trident, concorde etc. were all quite remarkable aircraft (albeit the former was woefully underpowered, but I blame BEA for that) its just they never seemed to garner the widespread commercial success that US manufacturers enjoyed.
The Narwhale of the skies!!!!!! Its lovely.
I want this built in the modern age
Jielyn Sabarez I don’t even want lots of space, I just want to lay down so my back doesn’t hurt! Even a TINY triple bunk bed is fine.
@@dirkhamilton2709 define "tiny"
Having watched one too many air crash investigations movies on TV I will never fly on one of those contraptions again.........ever.
It's quite amazing, Man came down from the trees to walk on the ground and has spent the last couple of million years trying to get back up there again.
Excellent video. I used to fly in Chipmunks from Filton with the Air Training Corp, and the Brabazon Hangar was then a place of awesome mystery to Air Cadets - where Concord was being developed behind closed doors.
Nowadays it's a museum, so you can visit it and walk through a Concord. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since the start of Britain's "Jet Age" ended the future of the Brabazon.
If it had 300+ cheap seats for crossing the ocean, there might have been a market for it.
Gotta love 0:54
When I was a kid in 60s Coventry I regularly had a walk round the Herbert museum and they had a wheel and tyre off a brabazon as one of the exhibits I always wondered why now 55 years later I know !
An idea that could have saved the Brabazon could have been to replace the piston engines and props with jet engines direct, not turboprops. Looking at the stats for both the Brabazon and the Comet, eight to twelve jets could have got the giant plane off the ground, and may fly at higher speeds too. The range might decrease, but the jumbo might be able to reach New York in the first models.
I’m trying to sleep but that title won’t let me.
I couldn't help but gasp out loud when you mentioned it was scrapped. ARGH!
wonder if the economics could've worked out with a more modern-style cabin seating something like 300 people
The A380’s grand daddy
The first time it got off the ground all the papers had the headline,"BRAB UP, THUMBS UP!"
The reason this aircraft was designed and built was because of John Moore-Brabazon and his Tory party connections to the aircraft industry. Basically Moore-Brabazon was a rich playboy who got into government, and he gambled British taxpayer money based on his views of what an aircraft should be (a first-class palace in the air) amidst deep austerity and rationing. There's a possibility that he may have personally enriched himself through this project, even if it failed.
Here's the link for the whole story, if you're interested:
jalopnik.com/understanding-the-why-behind-why-this-aircraft-was-proc-1626041288
However even if the Brabazon goes mass-market it would still have failed. Very high-powered, supercharged piston engines are incredibly unreliable to the point where an engine failure is practically expected every other flight, especially when flying long-haul such as the Hawaii route. One can say that the Stratocruiser which BOAC used was also a failure because of its unreliability. While the military have unlimited maintenance budgets and demand maximum capability, airlines have to be economical with maintenance. Having an aircraft with 8 giant, complex piston engines connected to 4 overstressed gearboxes is by far the worst nightmare for many maintenance engineers.
Why governments shouldn't run industry
Avantime do you realize what that STRATOCRUISER “ was ? The B29 body hated to another price of another, which explains why it looks as it did .
It is a shame because on paper it could have worked because there were still wealthy people who wanted to travel long distances at the end of WW2, to America, South America, Australia, India, Singapore and China, which took up to 10 weeks on a passenger ship to China. If this plane had been launched with jet engines and not 16 piston engines to drive it, then the outcome might have been very different. Look at how 'cool' it was to fly on a jet powered Comet, until they started falling from the sky.
It seems that wealthy people pretty fast realized that they now can get over ocean much faster so they began to prefer faster airplanes. The fact that they are smaller and more crowded didn't matter anymore.
The reason why airliners crossing the Atlantic had to have a minimum of 4 engines until quite recently was because of the unreliability of piston engines.
I have to say Britain always makes the most good looking planes
Unfortunately Britian made planes that didn't perform and no one wanted to buy, the U.K. no longer has any companies left that make commercial airliners.
1:29 most american transport aircraft were designed as commercial airliners and then re-purposed for a military transport/cargo role during WWII
no, they were developed by the U.S. Military to transport troops to the west Pacific and Europe to fight there.
@@Fish-bt4c the Electra, DC-2, DC-3, C-46, Lodestar, Constellation, Model 247, and Model 307 Stratoliner, just to name a few, were originally designed as civilian aircraft either as airliners or cargo aircraft. The military purchased them for use as transport due to the ease of transferring them to military service. It isn’t hard to look this up my guy.
Ýou should have really put an A380 next to it for scale.
Luxury travel like that of old ocean liners could still have a place in the sky but only for leisure and nothing currently flys long enough, yet fast enough to make a "flying cruise" experience that would make a good vacation without of course costing an arm or a few kidneys
Company : Hello Airlines meet my newest, best and most technical and complex plane ever
THE *floating blimp*
.... The blimp was a different aircraft not a plane
Great video, don't know how many times I've watched it already. Really like the new thumbnail, by the way.
Honestly I would be happy with 12 hour ocean crossings if I had enough room to stretch my legs, let alone see a movie.
Im still amazed how speeds have increased in just the last 15 years. My normal flight time to Brazil has reduced by 1 hour. I think it's due to the higher altitude flights now available with less wind resistance.
Built for an age where passengers were treated with respect rather than as cargo.
GrtSatan so true....
But you will be treated even better in a plane these days If you are willing to pay as much as It costed back then
this makes me think of the convair model 37 concept lookup xc-99 and see about the 37 just as nutty reminds me of the tupolev ant 20 too am i weird for wanting this to exist i built it in simple planes and x plane 11 if anybody wants either of those i should have the files
Imagine you are in the cinema relaxing and watching a movie and the plane is falling and you don't even understand that it's happening until the very last moment. That would make such a "safe" plane
Long time viewer of the channel, love the new thumbnail! :D
a true ‘fly the ocean in a silver plane, see the jungle when it’s wet with rain’ 💕😘🎶 (Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me)
My father, who worked for Wellworthy at the time, made the piston rings for the engines. They gave him an ashtray made from a Brabazon piston.
Even better than ketchup.
So... Britain beat its own plan by making plans for the first jet airliner?
Yep. Later, they merged all their major car industry to a behemoth that became expert in competing with itself and only itself.
@@skuula and that brought down both the aviation industry and the land vehicle one! its all plastic on wheels or wings now!
ugh why are new countries messing up decades of work?
Such a beautiful piece of hardware.
Wonderful video. Thank you.
In fact: the plane was about 9 years late because the first fighter jets entered service in 1941
You realise this isn’t a fighter right?
@@Jabber-ig3iw its a jet powered aircraft that could carry a person
I think thats enough. It was during the war you cant expect people to build passenger planes
The first jets entered service in 1941 yes but they were German and had an engine service life of a day or so
Wonder if such an eccentric aircraft would have a second Life today like some sort of luxury sky cruiser for weirdos like me lol
I'd genuinely pay a lot to fly on such an eccentric plane.
2:17 "..against prevailing eastern winds..." *west*
If the airbus a330 was like that I would go anywhere just to fly in the plane
chef has it flying hitel
It’s like introducing a modernized version of a very old computer brand into an era where everyone uses the newest windows version.
yeah but old computers run stuff new ones hardly can which is a pro for old ones?! like the brabazon being luxurious compared to other aeroplanes of the 50s
It's the finer details, like sleeper compartments on a plane where nobody is going to sleep, that doomed this plane to oblivion.
Such a shame, I still think there was and perhaps even still is a market for this plane. If this was marketed as a private plane then I can almost guarantee that it would have been successful. Once Britain realized that this thing wasn't attracting airlines instead of just scrapping it, just pivot and instead market it as a potential private plane. I guarantee it would have been a success in that department. Wealthy Millionaires from all over the world would've been lining up to buy one. That just my opinion though, we'll have no way of knowing for sure.
People still take ocean liners and trains with sleeping compartments even though they are far more expensive.
They make the trip into a part of the holiday.
Two things that I allways wanted to do but will never happen are travel on a Hindenburg type giant rigid airship and fly on one of the giant Clipper ships taking off and landing on the sea.
Both were slow but luxurious forms of travel that will probably never be created again.
I doubt I would ever get the chance to travel on a DC10 and their is a least one of those still moving travelers.
This plane would have cost millions of dollars just to buy, more to operate. You would have needed a net worth of a hundred million of dollars (in 1950's dollars - billions today) to afford one, unless you wanted to skip other luxuries. There weren't as many mega-rich people back then as there are now. Even now, very few people have private jets as big as the Brabazon.
I can't imagine having that much room to myself on an airplane.
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My Grandfather James Murray RNZAF flew the Brabazon while at Filton test flying the Bristol Freighters the RNZAF bought.
Britain, always innovators, never the marketeers.
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"Britain stuck...nobody wanted... an era that no longer existed" pretty much sums up Britain 2023!
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