The Bristol Type 172 was a proposed long range, four engined bomber that the Bristol Aeroplane Company began work on in late 1946, when the Air Ministry was interested in high speed strategic bombers using turbojet propulsion and swept wings. It was a high wing monoplane with 45 degrees of sweepback, and the Air Ministry issued Specification E.8/47 to the firm on 23 July 1947. A half scale single engine model, the Type 174, was planned to test the design, and the wing redesign that followed produced the Type 176, which reached mock up stage in late 1948 before work stopped in favour of the Britannia airliner. No aircraft of the family was ever completed.
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The Bristol Type 172 was a proposed British long range four-engined bomber project developed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company.
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The Bristol Type 172 was a proposed British long range four-engined bomber project developed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company.
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which made use of relatively new aviation trends, such as turbojet propulsion and a sweptback wing
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No aircraft, full-scale or otherwise, were ever completed.
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