Originally Posted by
Wageslave
CFM56 engines British designed and built are they? Not many people know that...The US Govt might be interested though.
Messier Bugatti Dowty (undercarriage) British, are they? OK, they're big in Gloucester but by no means all British or anywhere close to it.
UK has a larger aerospace industry than France/Germany Airbus? Does it?
According to the ONS and other providers of stats (e.g. PWC) - either the 2nd or 3rd largest in the world (I forget who nips into second place if the UK is counted as being third). There are something 3000 British companies or multi-national companies which have factories/are based in the UK involved in aerospace, and the sector is responsible - directly or indirectly - for the employment of about 250,000 people within the UK.