"Many a true word said in jest"
NURSE,
In a former life I was working as an undergraduate in the design office's of Short's in Belfast. Sometime in 1994 a group of gentlemen from an organisation called "EUROFLAG" (European Future Large Aircraft Group - latterly Airbus Military) came to visit and hoover up every scrap of info on the Belfast. Essentially, without the Belfast (the only large lifter ever built in europe) you wouldn't have the A400M as we now know it. Doesn't seemed to have helped them that much mind you......