Are we just too small a country with too small an industrial base to make complex high tec stuff like Aero engines profitably ? We have Airbus of course but bizzarely, as it so important to AI its not British owned . BAe systems deciding (another short term view) that there was more money in robbing the Government on Military equipment than being part of the worlds biggest civil aviation manufacturer. This coming in a week where it was revealed that UK car production has fallen by half since you know what and is now on a par with the strike ridden mid sixties , failure of the much hyped battery plant and failure of the space launcher test. Where now for UK engineering, desperately sad.