Originally Posted by
jlemon
Bonus 1 : Was this the AW.27 Ensign?
Yep, the Armstrong Whitworth Ensign, a big, bluff-looking aircraft, was more than a bit of a Boondoggle, ordered in 1934, they spasmodically trickled in to Imperial Airways service only at the end of 1938, were grossly unreliable, all sent back to A-W, got redelivered just weeks before the start of WW2, whereupon they were reassigned to war work, and that was the last airline service they ever did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstr...itworth_Ensign