Hair-raising quote that shows how far the UK went toward central planning: "By early 1956 [the RAE] had come to the conclusion in theory that the inevitable next stage must be the development of a supersonic commercial transport. It was time for government to intervene."
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It doesn’t seem anomalous to me for the period. Any program of that magnitude and ambition in US or Soviet contexts would likely involve the Gov too.
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