Publicación especializada de la época con el Bristol Brabazon en portada y sus hélices contrarrotantes fabricadas por Rotol Limited. The cost of air travel was falling, and airliners were being transformed into aerial buses. (Airbus, Filton)Passengers could relax in the lounge, shown here, or take in a film in the 32-seat theater. Bristol's earlier work had shown the sort of performance that the Brabazon Committee has been looking for, and thus the Committee authorised the firm to proceed with preliminary work towards designing such an aircraft that year, with the proviso that work on wartime aircraft should not be disrupted by the project.In November 1944, following on from further work on the design, a final concept for the Type 167 was published. Although the Brabazon couldn’t do that, the Americans had developed several air liners that could, including the Douglas DC-6, The Brabazon performed many additional test and demonstration flights during the next 2½ years, but attracted no interest from the airlines. The facilities constructed at Filton were put to use in developing the Bristol Britannia, a successful airliner far better suited to the air transport conditions of the day. The committee’s work led to the development of several successful transports, including the de Havilland Dove, the Vickers Viscount and the first production jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet.

The Type 167 used a number of non-standard gauges of skinning in order to tailor every panel to the strength required, thereby saving several tons of metal. As the giant rose into the air, using only a quarter of the distance of the enormous runway that had been built for it, test pilot Arthur J. "Alexander Flemming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928.Richard Hofstadter, historian who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work.Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, science fiction and fantasy author (M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American screenwriter, director and producer (HistoryNet.com is brought to you by Historynet LLC, the world's largest publisher of history magazines. Bristol employed revolutionary new machining and construction methods for drilling, milling, folding, and rolling many of the airframe's components.The act of manufacturing the Brabazon alone was found to be a challenge. The engineering that went into the prototype was equally impressive. Each coupled pair of engines drove contrarotating propellers mounted on the end of a slim nacelle containing only the propellers’ drive shafts. An entire village, which had survived the worst that Luftwaffe bombers could dish out in the war, was demolished and its inhabitants relocated to accommodate the 8,000-footlong runway the designers thought the Brabazon would require to take off.Although it was completed in 1947, such was the Brabazon’s unprecedented nature that nearly two years of ground tests were deemed necessary before it was finally cleared to take wing. Bristol 167 Brabazon Mk1 - The sole Brabazon on finals to its Filton birthplace at the conclusion of its 2 1/2 hour second test flight.

Bristol was contracted to build two prototypes of what it called the Type 167, with an option for 10 production models. They were able to begin actual construction in October 1945, shortly after V-J Day, which was just as well, because it was to take them nearly four years to complete the first prototype.The Brabazon’s size was truly unprecedented.

Powered by four of the Proteus turboprops developed for the Brabazon, the Britannia weighed almost 40 percent less than its enormous predecessor, yet could transport the same number of passengers across the Atlantic at a cruising speed more than 100 mph faster.