I am the author of Fairey Rotodyne, History Press 2009. I also flew with Rotodyne. It is implied in your statement that Westland did not pursue the Rotodyne with any enthusiasm . This is unfair and untrue! Westland was responsible for almost half its flying life. And discarded its own project Westminster o do so.They had more sense than to continue as a private venture working with British European Airways. on a fixed budget.
I have always said that to cancel Rotodyne was not necessarily wrong. What was unforgivable was scrapping the prototype and losing the data. No one has ever owned up to this.
I worked for Fairey but I would always claim that Westland worked hard to make Rotodyne a success
Let’s come off the popular conspiracy theory, and heaven forbid that there may have been any government incompetence or lash of drive.
David Gibbings MBE