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By the end of WW2 Britain was heavily involved in U.S. weaponry research, including the Manhattan Project, therefore "The British Bomb" seemed just a matter of time. However it is not enough just to have the bomb, there must be means of delivery that Britain lacked; Lancasters and Lincolns did not have the range and imminent death of piston propulsion for strategic bombers seemed obvious. Americans suggested a share in Convair B-36 development that was rejected because there was already a programme in Britain that eventually resolved into civilized Bristol Brabazon airliner. Flying Wing scheme was the area of particular interest for British aircraft designers however all proposals of cooperation with Jack Northrop had been rejected. The only outcome from these talk was his reluctant agreement to transfer all the documentation for German Arado E.555 project obtained when its design bureau was captured by the allies in the spring of 1945. These documents were not of particular interest for Northrop, who thought
