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mom this as Heathrow Airport on the Great Falls Mont population
in dade of the world based terminal wrong with many thousand businessman
here to carry on the train that is the companies like lot and through this
freight handlers class
many millions of pounds with a manufactured goods on their way to every
corner the glow
the air transport industry has transformed economic geography
the world is all happened within the space of a man's lifetime
any seventy-odd years since somewhat unreliable by planes took off here from
Hounslow Heath hoping to make it to Paris mean top
British Aerospace Industries only a few years older than that in that time it's
going from the most
fragile beginnings its present cue scale
second only in terms of size the area's prisons in the United States second to
none in terms of range
and capability now the history its growth and development over the years
the store the most remarkable success and achievement
and this program sets up a shot some about history
in the beginning fine was the exclusive province
the true pioneers men who had but a passion for aircraft
region energy to fund industry right
others have calls Road barrio was an SOP within many others then
as it became possible to buy an airplane the grave and the rich
retracted to flying had become the ultimate adventure
it wasn't long before the airplane
attributed to the military pollen crowns at Larkhill in 1912
the role fine corresponded willow cavalry officers were frowned upon
if elected to join the new insubordinate service the general view
with the airplanes never amount to anything because they would frighten the
horses
UK went to war in 1914 the Beijing Airport numbering fewer than 200
aircraft
many farming long wooden barriers it was a war
essentially a foot so do some horses and mud will be honest he was merged
it away seeing over the hill
pilots to observe is engaged enemy Scott with side arms and Michael
cationic got hand grenades and bricks bombs
on in the trenches 1915 hi everone garrels
French ace to defect to pick sister pilar that enable him to use the
aircraft
to a machine gun in a matter of weeks every
Dutch engineer and on pokémon designed a rather more elegant solution
llama interrupt again that allowed the gun to fire
any when the hell it was clear German folk Endeca
on with this device compass waves to the Allied air forces
became known as the focus good
but the arms race was on the endless demands more firepower
higher speeds resurrected Klein better technology
to race was never come to an end
the 20th March 1916 the society a British aircraft instructors was formed
by the end of the year much to the familiar names to become members
AB Road Blackburn totem pole Chris Paul Handley Page
because in western and in the forcing house the war the industry grew
with immense speed slow and I'm being pushed by planes
replaced by highly maneuverable and highly potent flying machines
we got to put up with cum became a legend on the Western Front
a top speed of 150 miles non with twin
pics machine guns became a super pumped killer
anymore enemy victims any other type
the issue 5 may from re: fun bro
was very much less demand to fly the camel an important factor
and pilots were being sent to the front the only fifteen or sixteen hours
experience
we proved to be a very stable gun platform 204 spies
bonus with engine to get top speed almost two hundred forty miles an hour
the ceiling above in nineteen thousand feet remember an open cockpits without
oxygen
or indeed without a parachute summer the greatest British cases such as
manic and Albert ball achieve their fame
in a C-five a's I'll
meanwhile in response to the increasing frequency of German a rage in nineteen
seventeen eighteen
a heavy bomber force was created standard aircraft
with the John Handley Page Zero 400 nicknamed
the bloody paralyzer is over sixty feet long
at a hundred foot wingspan because part by to Rose was the clintons
developing 360 horsepower reach over 400
these monsters were built and fun but just a two-man crew
they could carry two thousand-pound bombs around a hundred miles an hour
they could stay airborne often did for up to 10 hours
I'll
by nineteen eighty the aircraft industry adopted the mass production techniques
developing in the car industry
posing month to the wall its PC companies were turning out
2700 aircraft a month at the end the war in November 1918
the reft to be informed first made love that year
from the RFC and the Royal Naval Air Service
and over 22,000 a crop to various types
over 33,000 aircraft be destroyed in action
will scrap this country a thriving
a row industry which is scarcely existed before
102 factors been built or converted
for the sole purpose of building aircraft or aircraft components
but it suddenly became industry without a custom
the RAF was virtually dismantled space in a few months
was reduce my 188 squadrons to a mere 12
and the government made it clear they had no interest
in placing you aircraft orders the public to was sick award
wish to enjoy that peace the war to end all wars and promised
in buying once again became a great adventure
weekend shows next military aircraft sold at give-away prices
while the Aria reconcile itself to making do with it
aging wartime designs well into the nineteen twenties
like these personal fighters seen here in front-line service in Mesopotamia
the aircraft industry had to find you up
from in June 1919 all combined to RAF pilots
through a separate because B bomber across the Atlantic to claim the prize
have 10,000 pounds
offered by the Daily Mail is epic flight
on the line for all to see the Mets progressive airframes
engines achieved during the war to be the reliability
the liquid-cooled inline engines to
rolls-royce Eagles safely carried the BB to gales and storms across the vast
space
reflecting Atlantic record-breaking flight
indeed min Irish ball
local in brown returned to a hero's welcome will be 30 argues
before commercial aircraft make the Atlantic crossing
matter who teed the sea to the whole new industry a concern
air transport who was the twenty-fifth nineteen 19
air transport and travel owned by the aircraft manufacturing company
started daily function crimes that would be in Paris
music impressive dh4 zodiac 16 like bombers
carrying two or four passengers in the middle compartment behind the pilot
like time was just over two hours in September of the same year
Handley Page transport stuff its services the number up and the patron
engine types
prequel to brussels but all the fun airlines
suffered severe financial difficulties April 1924
struggling companies were merged to a single national carrier
the proud Imperial Airways to help build the Imperial network
1925 Alan Cobham food %eh 50
on FB group serving England south to the Cape
on to Australia round-trip some 28,000 miles
from 1926 big three engine owned from
with Argosy in all it's been the elegance can I the Imperial Airways
flight into your
Paris while Brussels and cologne despite the
open copy the pilots accommodation for the twenty passengers
more spacious curious the never previously been offered
the safe and reliable aircraft renowned for always being on should you
remained in service for over 10 years had
1929 the Wall Street Crash you could go send it to me reverberating around the
world
order books dwindled away infections will close down all over the country
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but in 1931 despite the slump
Britain should the quality of its aviation technology by winning this
night at trivia
right the aircraft was the supremely beautiful s6 be designed by RJ Mitchell
powered by Rose Royce the significance of this combination talents
was to extend far beyond the winning the treaty itself
in a few days later second sxb engine boosted
2006 and both my put the icing on the cake
by raising the world speed record within the staggering 407 miles non
but
could blow the 1933 to Western single-engine biplane
kinda thanks to new heights the blue overnight everest
my in meanwhile Handley Page wrote out the old
airliner the thirties the John HP 42 ninety feet long
with a hundred and thirty foot wingspan issues but when we designed specifically
to carry passengers
not particularly rapidly in great style in safety
to the furthest reaches of the empire powered by four
by 150 horsepower called was to cuba engines
month near the center line simply by estimate to kindly
pops could be further in those days out on the 24
38 passengers depending on the internal layout
years before he too was really a transitional design
that was all metal construction mostly metal clad
applying surfaces and the refuse large was still fabric-covered
tale was a biplane design on
operating out of Croydon
then London's International Airport the splash into the line
made their way across the map of the empire at a state be 95 miles non
Jenny might take days and you tend to buy ship weeks
the HP 42 set new standards in comfort
and cuisine
flying info airways in those days been just that
refueling stop semantic isolated staging post
set in remote corners but bar in part be on the seas
on which the Sun had yet to set only a to these aircraft were built
but the names became household words make blue literally millions of miles
carried 100000 the passengers like the way through until 1940
in 1935 the British government announced it would carry
all-male throughout the empire by Anna without a surcharge
so inferior Airways anticipating a huge increase in air freight
ordered straighten the drawing board a fee to $20 aid Empire fine but
well decision was to be justified this is really
well the landmark a proper the British aviation industry design must find a bit
today
Super Bowl mental stress involved metal country between
engines for personal papers as radios in Firefly most
all the Imperial Airways Group eventually in 1937
across the Atlantic New York when they were tied in 1947
yes 23 zip loan the less than 38 million miles
good SPAC is a great dick to the role in was not least because the great produce
a tendon
twenties and thirties put on to keep the beleaguered air force in the public eye
became in a very real sense the home the annual exhibitions
held by the SBAC first SBAC show
was in 1932 not that first
SPAC show ten-member just 34 got on his plate no fewer
in 13 different aircraft manufacturers
to be outros Nantong worth because Western
no public were allowed many cameras I the strange enough a patent for the sake
of security
those in equipment and with just 16 manufacturers
displaying their wares the two real started the show
one was the latest pride and joy Handley Page the hay for tnite Bama
last to the RAF's a by plane bombers said is so business the nine years
right the way through to 1941 the other the scale
there was a tiny de Havilland post long
now throughout the thirties several great flies with immense tiring to
resource like
Amy Johnson Jim Morrison see love you Scott made a whole
string on long-distance record-breaking flights all over the world in 10 other
all the hablamos family in these small and relatively inexpensive airplanes
contribute has more any other type
the huge spread a popular a BH in the thirties the also transformed hablan
from a small hard-pressed aircraft manufacturer a summer move north London
a big public company with a big international network including
subsidiaries in Canada
and Australia so while the rest to the British aircraft industry
was struggling to survive de Havilland was struggling to keep pace with demand
boating lead German aircraft make
replacing the same problem patten had come to power
begun to rearm in the UK the emergency expansion scheme 22 operation
not a moment too soon 1935 to celebrate
Pinjore stuff its silver jubilee the RFL the biggest fly part in its history so
much been time Aria
356 aircraft representing the 25 regular
and 12 Jerry squadrons spectacle was put on
with typical panache in precision but the front line
aircraft the RF had to display with desperately obsolescent
classic mana prices but dominated by the design concept to the war that has long
since been one
up supercharged petrol engines from Rolls Royce
the technology was that the Great Wall steel frame fabric covered by planes
with fixed on the carriages an open cockpits
these but the train I have pilots eligible computer is
United the crowd depending year after year deposition
spoken aerobatics but these no longer aircraft the good with an air war
bombers lumping by plays at the gene in the hatred
and faster more effective the old be me the strong wind of change blowing
generated by men like locus cheap designer Sydney cam
as you know we've been thinking around this problem for some time
and let me that it means leaving by between there so well
going to the monoplane irrelevant and many new features such as
there's cockpit treatable and again I only
and was you structural problems on
hawkers British new concept by two was of course the hurricane
which first flew in November 1935 built around that most magical engines the
Merlin
this v12 liquid-cooled supercharged engine
for the first time of the designers over 1000 horsepower
increase in power was largely to you who's on the supercharger
join a great deal experience gained in the challenge which night at ruby
in the early thirties but the money's great attraction
apartments power was it had an extremely small cross-sectional area
to the democratic pollard could have narrow stream 9 fuselages
and me
colleague who was one result another what the Supermarine type 300
the Spitfire first flew in 1936
was but bob was a revolution with stress confuse large
its famous broad called political whims
get a great deal to the earlier collaboration
doing RJ Mitchell the design a was a Henry Royce
much night a trippy planes and it proved to be a fighter with almost
unlimited scope for development moon
I'm 1936 was here have no turning back
hit the reoccupy the Rhineland laid the groundwork for the annexation of Austria
Angeles in England Robert Watson walked two young scientist
the National Physical Laboratory pressed ahead with his research
the lead eventually the development to rate on system
able to take the height range and bearing the aircraft
a hundred miles away
last spotted long Britain's suddenly eastern coast
soon pair vital role in a great embattled the 1938
pick the aircraft the carriage neville chamberlain akron is bogus negotiations
with Adolf Hitler running
I head another trial
with the German Chancellor Hitler and gary is the paper
rich bad did name applied
provide despite charges appeasement
with this piece of paper gave Britain a price this year in which to make up for
two decades of neglect
even said by September 1989 the germans do
to go through to home in world war two my command was still under string
the
the screaming die bombers proved to be the spearhead protecting you from a
mechanized wall
blitzkrieg like liking it proved to be
on
comment columns blocked the way across Europe no countries Belgium France or
fell
in a matter of weeks to the german armies which the channel case
britain seem do Hermann Goering
the model of upper boasted that is invincible Air Force
the bomb Britain's admission within two weeks
we observe his nose doctors in 1940 consider that to be
reasonable proposition history however has proved to be a mistake
well
ok
home gold
store the arias finest hour doesn't require retelling here
crisis a with first decisive battle
would entirely in the air
day
after
the course for the battle with germans lost 1,767 aircraft destroyed
the RAF lost 922 fighters 419 pilots killed in action
won the battle but demonstrated beyond Oct was the where is the first world war
aircraft to pay to marginal Rome in the second
would be central indecisive at every turn
despite bombings in Black Eyed in time aircraft industry work round-the-clock
using an ever-increasing for their craft the workforce but now included many
thousands of young women
you home never before you see an aircraft close to
only height is fully fenced
with Bama which to strike back
almost by nine like this week's by day
to June 1944 anyway that walk we bought the enemy in europe
was by on yeah
the
aircraft paid just as vital role in the Battle of the Atlantic
you miss you both came very close to victory combination convoy tactics radar
aircraft rose turned the tide indeed the mere presence when aircraft was
sufficient
to cause a u-boat died
young crews Obama command began to play a key role in the war effort
right from the outset their attacks first on the massed troops
the German invasion forces 1940 and then on the bike for you but pens
it was really an been to the for rent in Bama
deeper the amber Lancaster the finest heavy bomber the wall
county fourteen thousand pounds a bombs the 1600 miles
really open up the possibility over sustained bombing offensive against the
German heartland night of the night
crews took off to navigate their way for hundreds of miles across a black dot
Europe toward the heavily defended targets
and Lancaster bomber flies in the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
as the national symbol their immense courage
on june the sixth nineteen forty four the biggest aeromar the world has ever
seen was assembled for the d-day landings
airpower has never since lost his dominant row
total beer attack or defence has remained the decisive military strategy
the jet engine really came too late to influence the course for the wall
loss to meet his main task be to catching not down
German flying bombs but the gas turbine
was the most revolutionary development in aviation history
says Wright brothers flew in 1903 Frank Whittle first had the idea as a cadet a
crime or
in 1928 it was rejected by the in ministry
is impractical throughout the thirties will find it almost impossible
to get financial backing or government support so it wasn't until May 1941
prototype boss to eat 2839
was rolled up cromwell day the transformed
the aviation world
with early government commitment who knows but might well have had the jet
fighter
at the beginning of the war radner p.m.
the end the war the aircraft industry merges the largest in the country
employed $82 million men and women there were many areas of technology
a bit 9.3 let the world there was a tremendous sense have been poised
on the age for bascue from Tia know the rationing
Austin Stainforth on a separate years and the economy ricocheted from crisis
to crisis
the aircraft industry score trial of the trial
in 1942 at the height of the war far-sighted government set up a
committee
under the chairmanship Lord Brabazon to organize government support for
developing advanced post-war airliners
ok the Vickers Viscount yet again another prehistoric British aircraft
was the first real product the committee's deliberations first flew
July 1948 kroll rolls-royce dot engineers
not merely the world's first turboprop airliner
representing a spectacular bunks ever contempt replace lyndon transports
the original design was too small for BA's likely
the project almost all
district 53 seat was developed my company never look back
went into full shouldn't service with BA 9053
became one of Britain's most successful aircraft ever 459 sold around the world
many of them still flying to this day the 1950 S B eighty show the tiny
experiment would be a 2008 swallow
grab the headlines by dime the sound barrier and on from what stunned the
crowd with extraordinary
AW 52 flying wing instantly when the first project of
B-fifty with and use Martin make rejection see
a year later
crystal aircraft burst through what was perhaps the most sensational but with
the brothers in committee
and the only one to bear his name the problem is cement
dinosaur weigh 230 tons and a wingspan up to 130 feet
is bristol's and towards engines designed to carry passengers across the
Atlantic
but it proved to be hopelessly uneconomic
two prototypes languished Fulton
to they were broken up the total cost to the brothers and project
was over 11 million pounds but already there was a new shape a new sign in the
skies
which had far more commercial promise immensely beautiful form
the Havilland Comet
it doesn't all who saw it ghost powered comment
who's it for 100 knots and 40,000 feet shattered records wherever
went when it came into service in May 1952
Britain ruled the commercial skies on
and in September that year comment3 was an act the structures large to take up
to 76 passengers
power would nine thousand-pound fast avon's this was the transatlantic
comment
it was ordered by Pan American comment was at least two years ahead of any
conceivable competition
seems set to dominate the air route to the world but it was not to be
crashes on takeoff in Rome in Karachi
were followed in 1954 by two aircraft disintegrated in flight
over the Mediterranean comment because branded
investigation was started number
fuse large
was immersed in a testament to simulate changes in pressurization loads
during climb and descent use large fractured
after 1800 cycles called inquiry ruled
that nobody was to blame have Linda BREC but simply pushed too far
into the unknown the British aviation industry
was a profound disaster comment popping up Phoenix
to rise from the ashes comic fall when
trans-atlantic service in October 1958 by then
Boeing in Douglas produce brilliant long-range jet airliners
on the back with a huge military programs long-haul market was lost
in some ways for good as the comic saga was unfolding the cold war was growing
increasingly chilling
underlined by the fury of the Korean Conflict broke out in July 1950
the first jet-powered and Lauren Sammy britain at a given a jet engine by the
russians
and the Americans didn't have a jet pilot compete
not in the Sabres on the mic fifteens so the early fifties call
yet another swing in policy big increase in defense spending
the big slice of that going on the magnificent camber
camber was really an extraordinary success
designs like bomber and build run superb new rolls-royce actual flow gas turbine
aged 56 Avon could carry six thousand pounds of bombs
over 1600 miles at fifty thousand feet
and 550 miles non and the BRF spikes could catch it
the camera went on to quip nephew the 61
higher squadrons in a huge range roads it was the first British military
aircraft as the DH four in 1918
to be adopted by the US Air Force it still remains in service
many corners of the world
on
ok home in the nineteen fifties Britain was B bomber man
new strategy called me a supersonic bombers flying at very high altitudes
to carry nuclear weapons deep into enemy territory despite the close the expense
government of the day saw fit to test the concept with three radically
different designs
huge deal to be configuration the Vulcan for example
was wholly on conviction on the valiant
was in fact the first to the be bombers to go to Scotland sevens
bonus with wings and for ten thousand pounds lost avon's
was revelation was remember replacing the aging lumbering piston engine
lincoln's
we could Pinterest enemy airspace never 560 miles an hour
there were fifty thousand feet also incidentally
introduced in front refueling is a key element in Bomber Command strategy
the happy page Victor was the third the V Bama trio with its distinctive
crescent-shaped wings
decreasing sweetback from wing root to wing tip
during the victors lifetime he said he changed high-level penetration to
low-level
the aircraft was susceptible to lower level fatigue stress
it actually ended his life as a tanker
what welcome I was looking for was a fighter replace the aging me chills
super means with came from the same stable is the lustrous but fun
Bruno discovers a new world speed record 730 miles an hour
9053 eventually ill-equipped one Interceptor squadron
the 56 Waterbeach what was said spent a lot of time
the access panels alt
it was the hunter from the same state was the hurricane that turn out to be
when the most successful more british chick by the designs
in the hands the redoubtable travel one squadron black arrows
here seen going through their paces have a fun BRE electrified a show crowds
all over the world by 1958
all re: if they find is called the flying Hunter x 6's
powered by the Mets to reliable Avon at a top speed
whoever 715 mozna there's no doubt
about this a cross ruggedness many hunters
seen service with several air forces and the still flying yeah
on in March 1956 piloted by
Peter twists the needle nosed fairy Dell 22
raise the world speed record to 1,132 mozna
on introducing the Aero 1,000 miles an hour flight
but giving great britain would be to just two years
all three speed records land see
and in the air your the FT to wait long to explore the performance
delta wings at supersonic speeds must make a major contribution to the
development
conclude while Peter twist was extending the envelope so to speak over southern
Britain
British troops were involved in fighting the mole and wart war in which
helicopters
began to come into their own ok
Westland began to move into helicopters as their main line a business
this that we acquire the helicopter interest about the manufactured in the
UK
and forge stronger links with John sikorsky in the USA
Wessex go to existing sikorsky design
yes 58 with the piston and to remove replaced by gas turbines
results are stunning improvement performance Western with his thing by
the 130 miles non it wasn't meant success
but the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy said rule over the world
with tremendous rocky roads
me mid-nineteen fifties per to be something a postwar high for the British
aviation industry
they become virtually the Jew in the British industrial crime
whole series radical new aircraft types have been successfully introduced
british gas turbines remain among the finest in the world equipment components
Inc had grown
almost beyond recognition to rival in scale in value the high-profile
airframe 19 sectors in an e36 for the very first time
industry achieved over 100 million pounds with exports and the 1987 to
revelations took place
russians most tiny grapefruit sized satellite into orbit and the Sputnik
reaping its way around the earth introduce the space-age
Duncan sans lost his famous or infamous defence white paper
described by the president of the SBC as a most calamitous document
essentially the news sent you a farewell to the man
fighter and eventually the manned bombers world future
we dominated by missiles was argued in the face for potential enemy is large
the USSR
conviction of my two protections in the Battle of Britain for example
was impossible defense lame the Thames
initially dismissed providing a credible defense Britain's only deterrent force
the nuclear-armed B bomber basins and the most effective event it was argued
was provided by surface to air missiles rather than man fighters
the first to these missiles to go to serbs with the Bristol Blenheim
this what became operational in 1958
my 1960 there were 12 so high was the priority
missile had approximately fuse warhead
the speed in excess have marked to hone in on the target
my radar guidance system it had a considerable range
obtain from to liquid fuel Graham Jets took over
partly solid-fuel rocket go to the doctor away there
your by 1964 the mark to but have been produced
which could take out lower level targets but by then it was clear that the
strategy
was gravely flawed sam missile was not only a hugely expensive weapon
was it had been learned a strictly limited one
English Electric like just picking on the one
sixties it went into service releasing the obsolescent hunters for the ground
attack roll
22 a better suited like his great strength
was his performance two superimposed abrams
a super big celebration to mark two the Greek sixty thousand feet
in under five minutes on
its weaknesses were its insureds end up with a moralist permit petrol tank
it was always the nato as a fuel critically crop
and it's somewhat limited atonement just the 30 maybe the Canon
to heat-seeking fast be correct missiles there were three who built
remained frontline fighter key leak in the
10 a defense against the mic to the Russian bomber meets for over 30 years
meanwhile the high-tech TSR to was promises all things
20 Arman to use up to along with blue steel and several other potential air
defense systems
was scrapped in an orgy political pragmatism
on
to your cell too in its day was well in advance almost anything
kills in the world in military aircraft design development and production
it had long range it at high speed it had high bomb capacity at could
reconnaissance capacity
it was a splendid aircraft design it was probably the finest
aircraft designed produced by the British in the post-war period
up to that time unfortunately impulse
expense and in the political and economic climate in the mid-nineteen
sixties the government at the day decided it was too expensive
and cast now
that walls ultimately to be seen to be
a mistaken decision because subsequently
we have spent far more in developing the kind to the airplanes
that TSR to could have evolved into
them we would have a suspect if we had
just go along with two years old
well
late fifties isn't a favorite pic memory the British aviation industry
was really shotgun marriage time there is a massive pushing shoving
government ministers we ended up just two major airframe manufacturers
walk acidly British Aircraft Corporation so not surprisingly 10 friends met the
farmer shows
the talk was a merges and amalgamations not just be carefree makers
only two major engine makers emerged rolls-royce
it's huge international reputation with the civil and military fields
its pioneering leadership manufacture design of jet engines
Bristol should be engines at Filton
in 1964 me farmer share became a biannual event
those in the year in which the society changed its name the society
a British aerospace companies obviously mock acute increase
in aerospace activities two years later was the
fiftieth anniversary the societal despite a decade upgrade up people
bring great shape had over 500 members in the Jeep export to well over
200 million pounds the time when the government a finger
know what every pie was alive successful private ventures
not least among them was the be a C 111
which started out in like there's an idea but hunting aircraft they were
absorbed in the PACU 9:58
we developed into it a TCP placement for the Viscount
went into service in 1964 was a resounding success
but you selling into the top US market as well as behind the Iron Curtain
but undoubtedly one of the greatest moments in the sixties
indeed in British aviation history was when test pilot bill Bedford
climb to the unique will cook P 11:27 to achieve the first
vertical take-off overland the jet aircraft concept in peacetime
been established hi 1969
both houses are being delivered number one spot on make him the first
operational bistro spot in the world hired by the twenty one thousand pound
thrust Crystal Palace's engine
equipped the state-of-the-art printing now the tax system
was also the first re: aircraft have the Smith huddle
head up display system because the great operational significance
the harrier vertically short take-off capability
freeze maturity established airfields it is
in effective in operation as a group of powerful effect
during the Falklands War in service with the US Marine
did british aerospace mcdonnell-douglas have jointly develop the ABA
be your gr5 the US Marines in the RAF
the massive use and carbon fiber structures and improving designed to
give the aircraft %ah performance
greater weapons carrying capability it seems that remain the only if it could
be still fighting in the Western world
into the well the next century said he stands out
as a remarkable pretty sure cheap
on the 2nd of March 1969
001 me french braided like Concord
made its first find out to lose with Andre took out the controls
british bukkake frame 002 who week or so later
piloted by Brian trumps all Concord achieve Mach won its first flight
by the end of March exceeded mark 2.3
on
since that time Italy millions of words be written about this superb our plane
so let me confine myself
to just a few of the fax because they can be no question about the sheer scale
of the technical achievement the dozen Concord in service
a fun well over 100 million miles in public safety
they looked up over 75,000 hours at supersonic speeds
over 60,000 those excessive mark to
but probably more hours mark to all the worlds military aircraft put together
truly a remarkable achievement but as to whether supersonic transport is a bobble
element
in the supremely competitive field of civil aviation
of course the jury is still out concha was posted on the closely
on the sheer dominance a speedy any and on it was argued
good just about Harbor flying time two major centres would draw in a
never-ending stream of passengers
willing to pay a very high premium indeed the pleasure getting that much
faster
to an extent that has happened what is muddied the economic waters so to speak
has been the
growing resistance to noise pollution which is severely restricted the number
roots which concourse speed advantage we maximized
and mister Shikata operating that land building SSD's
cockle remember was laid on back in the sixties time
great optimism when industry wants to extend engineer lead
it'll be another what a century perhaps report success appears
if at all that's a huge gap of time aviation terms equipment that between
say the sup with camel Concord itself it's a long long way
to be ahead of the field so will there ever be a son of Concord
I think they're almost certainly will be a sauna Concord Concord
mark to it's going to be a 30
50 seater it's going to have a much longer range than the current Concord
trans-pacific rather than transatlantic they're all groups
working on it now if they go ahead /strong it could be ready in another 10
years
to other events occurred in nineteen sixty-nine
mark perhaps the greatest turning point the post-war history the British
especially written immediately agree to design and build a new multi-role combat
aircraft
in six years the quake struck supply
me to meet a super performs during the gulf war coming out perhaps the most
testing mission at the mall
is amply demonstrated the toughness and capabilities
this fine in Chrome on
in the same year West Germany in front sign an agreement used all European
civil airline
British government did first one way than the other
finally withdrew from this crucial project fortunately for the industry
focus simply had the witch in the foresight
join the console him privately build the wings but these two ventures really
set the seal on the developed to the industry the remainder of the century
aberration amalgamation a very much the name of the modern game
and of course if you look back over the history of the British commercial
aviation industry the reason it hasn't been a strong as military is that we
didn't have a captive home market
we and we try to go it alone with
exciting programs from you know the first have everything in the first jet
aircraft the first try jet aircraft
am the first to have a proper cross to cross the Atlantic
we the for supersonic passengers with a a cup with the French
would not been bad at doing for SWAT we've not been good at is converting
those first into
real commercial success and therefore the volume was never there in our
in our programs now of course
turning to and international partnerships and collaboration
tonight for the first time in in a meaningful way in Apple's
you can see all the great to substance develops in a program where there is a
a wider whole market more the same proportions that the americans have
benefited from
and of course the ability to fund aircraft %uh they
an outreach in kind in technology terms at the market
requires
rolls-royce discover the mint risk going it alone
in building the RB 211 do for the lucky tri-star
problems in the development program force this huge intelligent company
into receivership in 1971 further along lessons
the which which we learned from the RB two latin
from that episode the
the most important one is that you have to develop the technology well ahead of
taking that technology to market in a product
today we run demonstrated programs technology programs advanced engineering
program six to 10 years ahead
of requiring that technology in the marketplace the result is that is
modern engines going so it's very quickly
base on technology which we have a great deal to face in before we commit
present to an actual engine program I think the
my personal view is at that time neither the city nor the government
well enough organized to to understand how these things can be handled
lots of examples since I don't believe the company need to go into receivership
I once that was had happened course the government and had to make some decision
about protecting the the 100 S forces around the world to
major suppliers on the course possible the Aria from the and the Royal Navy
so there was little left for them to do but to secure
the the aviation business Seattle engine business
problems faced by Rose Royce was small compared to the Mets repercussions
the Yom Kippur War in 1973 brought to an end
a century of cheap fuel energy transform the economics of commercial aviation
weeks pan-american TWA cancel their orders with 13
Concord
straight start on the 10th of February in Britain the chaos was confronted by
national minus try to topple the heat government
in a matter of months and in doing so laid the foundations of the business
characterize government union relations throughout the eighties
1975 was a watershed year for the record
Concord made the first quadruple crossing the Atlantic in a day
out and back twice in 24 hours not bad
but the bigger but had to be the instructional the nationalization bill
for the aviation industry and to use data in a poor 1977
reject of cooperation Hawker Siddeley will merge to form I T
British aerospace all the old names be a Seahawk acidly
aviation and dynamics in Scottish aviation disappear from notepaper
all the North Course in the record books but it meant but the tenure process and
reorganization and
restructuring had finally run its course by then
the aerospace industry been for almost 20 years what has to be called
high-level turbulence
years indecision and cancellation with rapid change that government
82 radical swings in policy is above all a financial stringency
the late seventies for example inflation rate was well over 20 percent
but despite this largely hostile environment the aerospace industry
become immensely powerful
employed some 215,000 people as many as the restive Europe's Aviation's this
combined
have a turnover more than 2.5 billion pounds
with exports in excess of one billion set represents a huge repository
skills knowledge expertise agreements
national resource
on
but it's no mystery that will lead all its skill resource to meet the whole new
set of problems
in the nineties and beyond as the wars in eastern europe come tumbling down
I think now it's time to to break the law down you know
as the old enemies fade away how should the industry face up to the new
challenge
wiles to defense
an immediate need for defense might bite go away it hasn't gone for a long time
and unless you keep the technology is alive unless you keep the R&D base
there then you will not be in a position to respond
eventually when times change so I think
whether you are producing hardware in large amounts or not it to purses
to certain time then the nation needs to keep a technology bank
a bankable R&D otherwise you to surrendering the
possibilities many kinda independence independence policy
or even if you have a defense policy Yukon carried out independently because
you will not have the resources
to do so so are in the
is especially important and it's especially important that the
the British government should have a policy in respect to R&D even if they
don't quite have one in respect to
defense and posturing the moment everybody in the industry feces the fact
that technology is becoming more more more complex
that beans more more MORE explains
that in turn leads that anything that we industry does
he's going to cost a lot more money and that in turn means
that no one company no one country can develop any really
new airplane Beitzel we have the classic example
today with the european fighter here in Western Europe with the British
the west germans and the Italians ollie
at work on this particular a reply so yes
the answer I think when one looks at the future of the industry
aid tests to be one up increase collaboration and not just on a regional
basis within western europe but globally
but the British industry and house
throughout these equipment companies engine companies as well as through
British
aerospace major African company had many
very important and continuing problems with the united states and of course is
%uh there's an alliance across the Atlantic which is
fundamentally important and not to the ignored
and and so I think Britain's job is up
continuing to be the island of of Europe
and her has got to continue to have an intermediary role
I think we cannot commit ourselves holy one way or the other
and and I think European companies to will
them soon as the sort a priority is over to huddle together and
in the community will look to transatlantic or even trans-pacific
relationships
Aikens foresee what can happen during the next decade but it's a decade after
that that we
now have to stop paying attention to because that's going to lead
into totally different technologies materials technology for instance is
moving
have a fast pace we are going to see ceramic engines and
ceramic metal composite engines and in the next five years but we are going to
see them in the next 10 to 15 years and they will have a profound effect on
on what happens not only to to
the gas turbine for aviation purposes but maybe two
extend the the whole market for gas ovens maybe even through into the
automotive field
as I look forward the next 10 or 15 years
industry I have a degree of optimism
perhaps tempered with little realism based upon
last 75 years ups and downs by industry
but it's such an important industry which is a poor friend to so many
technologists
its assortment Street every advanced nation
once is willing to invest in with %ah competitiveness
on all fronts aircraft engines systems
missiles helicopters britains got it it's the most
integrated industry in the world after the United States
all these advantages I must look forward with a degree of optimism
in charge of to make sure in the next 10 to 15 years
we leave behind an industry processes
a successful as the one today