IT is no secret that this journal—in common with much of the press, both general and specialist—is implacably against the concept of nationalising the aircraft industry, or major parts of it. If it could be shown that the industry was not paying its way, that it needed regular injections of the taxpayers' money (we refuse to use that expression ‘government money’) or that foreign buyers would only deal with government there just might be a case for some action by Westminster.