Your challenge is to pick, among all the British aircraft companies and their talented designers like Sidney Camm, Reginald Mitchell and others, the one that could pull a Dassault .
That is, three things
a) maximum efficiency - hyper-reactivity against adversity. Also being ruthless (very ruthless) when needed.
b) Within the span of a decade or two (say, from 1945) sweep all the other companies, public or private, standing in the way
c) good enough to navigate the political - military swamp and survive political cycles and economic downturns. France and Dassault got their shares of Sandys and other white papers, too.
And thanks to all three above, give the British aircraft industry a better fate, overall.
My bet is on English Electric and E.E Peters, but Hawker and Sidney Camm are strong contenders.
(note: this thread is not a) Dassault licking contest and b) French aviation fared better than the British. I'm way above that kind of siliness).
More generally, I'm intrigued by the fate of British and French aviation industry fates from 1935 onwards, notably after 1945. As of 1935 both France and Britain had no less than 15 major aviation companies, which mean the landscape was equally fractured into very small kingdoms. Yet the ultimate results, 40 years later in 1977, were marquedly opposites. I learned a lot about the french models (Dassault vs SNCAs-geography) but the British side remain obscure. My goal would be some kind of british aviation wank using the French model, for the best and for the worse (1936 nationalizations were an absolute butchering).
That is, three things
a) maximum efficiency - hyper-reactivity against adversity. Also being ruthless (very ruthless) when needed.
b) Within the span of a decade or two (say, from 1945) sweep all the other companies, public or private, standing in the way
c) good enough to navigate the political - military swamp and survive political cycles and economic downturns. France and Dassault got their shares of Sandys and other white papers, too.
And thanks to all three above, give the British aircraft industry a better fate, overall.
My bet is on English Electric and E.E Peters, but Hawker and Sidney Camm are strong contenders.
(note: this thread is not a) Dassault licking contest and b) French aviation fared better than the British. I'm way above that kind of siliness).
More generally, I'm intrigued by the fate of British and French aviation industry fates from 1935 onwards, notably after 1945. As of 1935 both France and Britain had no less than 15 major aviation companies, which mean the landscape was equally fractured into very small kingdoms. Yet the ultimate results, 40 years later in 1977, were marquedly opposites. I learned a lot about the french models (Dassault vs SNCAs-geography) but the British side remain obscure. My goal would be some kind of british aviation wank using the French model, for the best and for the worse (1936 nationalizations were an absolute butchering).
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