Boss Raptor,
You say;
"I think it shows the great skill in design and production we once had and apparently have now let die in last decade which will be hard to resurrect and probably never return"
I think that's a tad harsh.
Since those days there have been many very effectibe UK design efforts, and a few that actually made it to production too!
Tornado, Harrier and now Typhoon are all pretty impressive efforts with a very large UK design element.
The aviation industry has changed out of all recognition from it's fragmented rather disorganised state in the late forties/early fifties.
It's not only the UK that has changed, it's a global thing.
Systems are now the main focus and where the cutting edge technology is rather than the airframe, and we do have two of the largest and most succesful system houses in the world in the UK.