RickLewis wrote:
... Skylon in some ways a development of the British Aerospace HOTOL (Horizontal Take-Off and Landing) spaceplane which was abandoned in the 1980s. Apparently funding has now been found to develop an actual working model of the revolutionary air-breathing rocket engines required for Skylon.
Bloody Govt! If we'd supported and funded HOTOL we'd be at the forefront by now and I'd be 'nipping' to Australia for the weekend
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Same short-sight as with the Blue Streak, Black Prince et al. misslle programs, but I accept that money was a problem at the time, but still think it was a bigger waste to lose this technology and effectively hand it over to the Yanks and others and don't get me started on the TSR-2!