British Aviation Successes and Setbacks 1945-1975

摘要

The decline of the British aircraft industry between 1945 and 1975 is a well-known story and Peter Reese tells it well. In 1945 Britain was as advanced as the US in the design of fighter aircraft,and possibly bombers, although it had fallen behind in design and construction of commercial transport aircraft. Governments of both colours saw the aircraft industry as a major element of foreign trade and, from at least 1942, were planning to revive the production of commercial transports for a world market, aided by Britain's undoubted head start in gas turbine propulsion.