The Decline and Fall of the British Aircraft Industry Part 2

The Britain that emerged from WW2 was very different from the one that entered it.  As is often the case the victors pay a heavy price for what is often a short-lived triumph.  Now effectively bankrupt and in hoc to the Americans, the second half of the 20th century for the British would be in large part defined by trying to keep up imperial pretensions on a budget with V-bombers and oddly named nuclear devices