Fastship - Airbus is another shining example of how we continually get sold out.
I would hate to see how much money the British government sank into joint projects, like Concorde for example, for a foreign company to walk away with all the manufacturing rights.
I'm afraid it started long before that though. Duncan Sandy's white paper did more damage to the British aircraft industries than the Luftwaffe. The only aircraft to survive his cuts was the English Electric Lightning, which was almost at production stage, everything else was cancelled.
Most controversially was TSR2, which was well into development and was under going air trails. Costs were well over budget, however initial signs were this was a world beating aircraft.
Unfortunately, the US also had an aircraft in the same category that they wanted to sell, so we scrapped ours - literally - and paid out millions for theirs that didn't turn up for years. (F-111).
So badly was it delayed, that the Buccaneer was developed and put into production as a stop gap.
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Another fantastic decision by our elected leaders. I wonder how much was made by who on these matters, or am I just being too cynical?
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