The Boeing 737 MAX's design is ultimately flawed by the fact that the aircraft sits far too close to the ground. As the ...
Designer W.E.W. Petter wanted a clean fuselage for the Canberra, forcing him to abandon a center-mounted jet engine and instead use the promising but highly experimental Rolls-Royce AJ.65 axial flow ...
The Canberra project faced an "absolute nightmare" in 1947 when its intended AJ.65 axial flow engine failed on the test bench, suffering surging and compressor stalls. To save the program, Petter ...