What UK stands to lose if Airbus pulls out | Letters

Prof Keith Hayward looks at the history of Europe’s aircraft maker; David Fisher says the EU should clarify its offer to BritainAditya Chakrabortty (Who will buy our plane when Airbus is gone, 23 June) underestimates the depth of our national investment in Airbus. The UK government made its first steps in developing the core wing technology in the early 1950s. With Hawker Siddeley Aviation, later part of British Aerospace, we joined the Airbus programme in 1967. In 1970, the Labour go