BRITISH AEROSPACE HAWK T.1  

No this was at RIAT 2024

@@T.F.D77 I was employed for 12 years at British Aerospace, Kingston upon Thames in the prototype and development experimental department as a machine operator on manufacturing new designs. They then were tested and certified by approval from us to mass factory manufacturing process. My work included The Hawk, single and twin seater. The Sea Harrier vertical liftoff that served in the Falklands war. The American McDonald Douglas AV8B Version. And the first European jointt agreement. The EuroFighter. All in my history employment at Aerospace from 1978 / 1990 as I recall that you may remember if you were born before the years, is as follows. Labour Party: 1976-79 James Callaghan - With inflation running at 17% and 1.5 million unemployed, Callaghan made the controversial decision to ask the IMF for an emergency loan. In return for $3.9 billion of credits, he attempted to impose tighter monetary control through wage restrictions for public sector workers. The unions’ reaction to this was a wave of strikes that saw the dead not buried and rubbish lining the streets of Britain, uncollected. The winter of 1978-9 become known as the ‘Winter of Discontent’. Callaghan failed to win a vote of ‘no confidence’. Concervative Party 1979-90 Margaret Thatcher - The industrial unrest brought about by the ‘Winter of Discontent’ saw Mrs Thatcher elected the first female British Prime Minister. Branded the ‘Iron Lady’, her early years in power resulted in only a marginal improvement in the economy. The defining moment of her premiership came in April 1982, when she led the country to war against Argentina in the Falkland Islands. The successful outcome of the campaign transformed her standing in the opinion polls. Her successor 1990 - 1997 concervative Party John Major