Naval requirements may favor turboprops for endurance, loiter time, and carrier handling, while the RAF's bomber establishment would be attracted to fast, long-range jets. A first experimental aircraft might fly around 1933-34, followed by operational types in roughly 1936-37 if funding and testing remain consistent. Development would still proceed by generations rather than leaping immediately to postwar performance. Different service needs could also reduce competition for the same engines by giving the Fleet Air Arm and RAF partly separate propulsion families.
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Early funding splits development between turboprops and jets
The discussion moves from ship propulsion to the aircraft types that a mature turbine industry might make available before the Second World War.