Ancestor catalogue
Many letterheads, one later brand.
Start with ancestor yards and 1977, or 1999 looks like a birth.
Privatisation is a political date, not a footnote.
Timeline
- Ancestor firms
de Havilland, Avro, Vickers and yards.
- British Aerospace formed
Nationalised grouping.
- Privatisation
Thatcher-era sale.
- BAE Systems named
BAe plus Marconi electronics.
- Typhoon industrial politics
Workshare as diplomacy.
- SFO / Al-Yamamah public years
The ethics file in headlines.
- US and Australia units
A prime that is not only British.
- UK carrier yard story
Industrial geography of a fleet decision.
- Woodburn public era
A named late CEO.
- European land-systems competition
Watching Rheinmetall/Hanwha as a comparison, not a recipe.
Eras
BAe years
State grouping then private company.
New prime
Electronics plus airframes; hearings.
Ethics and carriers
SFO file; yard politics.
Partner prime
US/AU/Europe as the map.
Milestones
1977 grouping
A state gathers an industry.
1999 name
Systems, not only airframes.
SFO years
The civic file.
Hearings are as historical as first flights.
Korea is a footnote; do not inflate it.