Originally Posted by
ZeBedie
So they can rivet to western standards - good for them, but that's not even slightly the same as having control of the design team, is it?
Does the UK?
The design authority is airbus, with UK workers designing to Airbus specification and intellectual property? We've never been very good at designing airliners, much better at systems. Snggered at facecious, uninformed politicians yesterday making comments like "why can't people imagine the UK building aircraft again?"
Naievety beyond comprehension.