Britain’s Aircraft Needs: Part IV
Industry Leaders Swamped By Tradition
The (British aircraft) industry for the most part is controlled by men who came into it in its early wood and fabric days, and it must be immensely difficult for them, having lived through two wars and done a very fine job of work, to adjust themselves to the modern requirements with a vastly different tempo; in fact, I should think it was quite impossible for them to do so.
By Sir Roy Fedden21 min