Originally Posted by
tornadoken
These endless we wuz robbed myths are truly tiresome.
Not so much "robbed", Ken - as much as we seem to have repeatedly - and in part, willingly - given away a significant R&D advantage.
There's no question that the powers that be on this side of the pond were responsible for an utter lack of business acumen. Nationalised or not, it would have been relatively simple to propose a licensing arrangement for the original DH.121 design either in whole or in part. The avionics (and in particular blind autoland) alone were almost a decade ahead of anything anyone else had.