Just one Brabazon made it off the assembly line. The supersized airliner, with its 230-foot wingspan, rumbled over the British countryside in 1951, accompanied by a Bristol 170 Freighter.

You have to admire a man like John Brabazon, not only for having an incredible license plate, but also for being the first person to fly a plane in Britain. And not only did he do that, but he also ...

A little over four years after the war had ended, the most significant creation to evolve from the Brabazon Committee's 1942 transport aircraft development plan would take to the air, and with it ...