Collaboration in the balance

Abstract

PARIS will be the first time the tangible results of Anglo/French co‐operation in the aerospace field will appear in public. Concorde and Jaguar will be seen on the ground and in the air, a demonstration that collaboration between two countries can and has been made to work. Neither aircraft would have been constructed if the memorandums of agreement between the two nations had not been signed to launch the programmes. Yet it is ironical that in spite of this visible success the road ahead for future agreements looks thorny indeed. After years of vacillation on the tripartitite A‐300 project for a short and medium haul high capacity airliner, the project is now dead as far as the British Government is concerned. France and Germany have announced that they will go ahead without official British participation, although they will almost certainly need the skills of Hawker Siddeley Aviation at Hatfield who have been responsible for the design of the wings.

Citation

(1969), "Collaboration in the balance", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 41 No. 5, pp. 7-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034502