Empire of the Clouds
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396 pages
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of jet aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? And what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment?
ISBN: 9780571247950
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Brian Cox
Science & Research"Describes how we damaged our aviation industry with a series of short-sighted political decisions in the late 60s and 70s."
book list View source ↗"@thestigmaster And I agree with you on this. There is a great book called Empire of the Clouds which describes how we damaged our aviation industry with a series of short-sighted political decisions in the late 60s and 70s."
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