Originally Posted by
VinRouge
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.
I think we could imagine the UK doing it, but it requires competent management/government rather than one that cannot organise the proverbial p-up in a brewery. The UK is actually very good at making things and the car industry is a good example. But it needs Indian or Japanese management to make a success of it.