Concorde....

Miles Aviation designed the aircraft which was re-badged
as the Bell X-1 but somehow the Americans conveniently
forget that!

At 12:54 12 June 2006, Derek Copeland wrote:
I strongly suspect that the American airline companies
were leaned on by the US Government not to buy Concorde,
so that they could wreck the European aircraft industry
and see off a competitor to their own companies. Same
as they try to wreck every other countries economies
in their own interests. So called Globalisation equals
Americanisation!

Once Great Britain had thriving aircraft industry,
with companies such as Handley-Page, Avro, Vickers,
Supermarine, Miles, De Havilland. Now all we do is
make wings for Airbus, and even that industry is up
for sale.

I can perfectly well understand why the Arabs in the
Oil producing countries, which the US also tries to
dominate, hate the Americans so much!

Derek Copeland

Brian Goodspeed wrote:
Miles Aviation designed the aircraft which was re-badged
as the Bell X-1 but somehow the Americans conveniently
forget that!

Such a bizarre notion deserves to be forgotten.

My father, Stan Smith, was project engineer on the Bell X-1. He and
another pioneer glider pilot, Bob Stanley, headed the design team. They
were talented engineers and aerodynamacists, not "re-badgers." I'm
sorry to see their integrity impugned on R.A.S.