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Boris Johnson speech at Farnborough Air show; ITN POOL (GB NEWS) ENGLAND: Hampshire: Farnborough: Farnborough Air Show: INT Boris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT -and on Thursday last week at Coningsby I asked them afterwards, as you ask about what would happen in a fight between a tyrannosaurus rex and a Killer whale what would happen in a fight between a typhoon and an F15E strike eagle and they said it would be no contest almost 30 years ago when I went up in a F15E the strike eagle seemed to me to be the last word in strength and power and aggression but compared to the typhoon, according to the RAF, it would be so motionless and defenceless that a dogfight in the brutal words of one typhoon pilot would be like clubbing seals and so the lesson I draw is about the scale and the pace of technological change It was only 85 years ago that my grandfather was flying wellington bombers with equipment so primitive that you really have to marvel at the bravery of the men and women who were involved in that war in fact he used up quite a few wellington bombers he crashed twice – the second time into a church I am afraid he was always prone to religious doubts I marvel at the bravery of that generation and let’s face it – it was only 120 years ago that this whole enterprise began – of heavier than air powered flight - in machines, barely more than a century ago, that looked like laundry baskets lashed together with leather and canvas and propelled by lawnmower engines and if you can go from a laundry basket to a typhoon in a century I just want you to imagine what the next 20 years and the next 50 years will bring and I want you to know that this government believes in British aviation and British technological genius and its power to bring jobs and growth across our whole country, uniting and levelling up across the whole country and that is why we are investing so massively in defence, the biggest uplift since the end of the Cold War, and that is why...