Geoffrey de Havilland
An ancestor name English readers already know from the Mosquito and a company that folded into the later grouping.
Era
3
Firm
3
Point
3
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale36
Intensity22
Duration64
Tech shift58
Political impact48
Cultural memory32
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Quick answers
Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
What was British Aerospace?
A 1977 grouping of UK airframe companies, later privatised in the 1980s, that became half of BAE.
Why do hearings appear on a firm page?
Because Al-Yamamah and the SFO file are the thickest public political record of the company's export life. They are civic history.
How does the Royal Navy relate?
Yards and combat-system work for UK fleets are a continuous industrial story. See the RN page for force structure; this page for the contractor.
Is Typhoon a BAE aircraft?
BAE is a major partner in a European programme. Workshare is the honest word -- not sole inventor.
How does Korea fit?
Hawk trainers and later partnership notes -- thinner than Lockheed or Hanwha in ROK memory.
Typhoon at Farnborough, a Barrow gate, a newspaper front page from the SFO years.
Wallis as the inherited British engineer-saint -- handle as memory.
People
Barnes Wallis
Vickers memory -- bouncing-bomb fame that this page will not turn into a design lesson. A cultural ancestor, not a 1999 employee.
Firm
3
Fame
3
Use
3
Margaret Thatcher
Privatisation of British Aerospace is the political preface to the later prime.
Policy
3
Years
3
Point
3
Richard Evans (BAE)
A public chief of the BAe-to-BAE years -- export politics included.
Role
3
Firm
3
File
3
John Weston (BAE)
A 1999-era chief name on the new letterhead.
Role
3
Year
3
Point
3
Mike Turner (BAE)
A 2000s chief in the hearing decade.
Role
3
Era
3
File
3
Ian King (BAE)
The 2008-17 public chief -- Typhoon and yard years.
Office
3
Years
3
Point
3
Charles Woodburn
A later public name -- caption, not a market note.
Office
3
From
3
Point
3
Debate
Did privatisation make a stronger prime or only a louder lobby?
The hearing file and the yard-town file disagree. Hold both.
National champion vs export dependence
BAE's politics are that tension in public, dated form.
A Bond-film gadget is not a primary source.
The brand film drops the hearing. This page will not.