From the first aircraft they produced the British have always played a very important role in the aeronautic industry. As early as 1912, British firm Vickers were experimenting with machine gun carrying aircraft, skip forward to World War II and we had produced incredible bomber planes such as the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire. 1969 saw the first flight of Concorde, a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airline service and with the advances in technology, we are now in the designers’ golden age and witness the production of incredible engineering feats such as the Airbus A380.
