The Bristol Type 167 Brabazon was a very large British piston-engined propeller airliner designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company for transatlantic flights between the United Kingdom and the United States. It took its name from the Brabazon Committee and its chairman, Lord Brabazon of Tara, whose Type I specification it was built to meet. The design had a 25 foot diameter fuselage with full upper and lower passenger decks and was powered by eight Bristol Centaurus radial engines driving four pairs of contra-rotating propellers. It was sized roughly between the later Airbus A300 and Boeing 767 yet was planned to carry only 100 passengers. The first prototype flew on 4 September 1949 and appeared at the 1950 Farnborough Airshow and the 1951 Paris Air Show. High cost per seat mile meant no firm orders came, and the programme was cancelled on 17 July 1953 after only one aircraft had flown.
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The Bristol Type 167 Brabazon was a large British piston-engined propeller-driven airliner designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company to fly transatlantic routes between the UK and the United States.
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