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Airbus UK (formerly EADS UK) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airbus, based in the United Kingdom, which produces wings for Airbus aircraft.When Airbus (at the time known as EADS) was incorporated as a joint-stock company in 2001, BAE Systems transferred the British facilities of the transnational Airbus Industrie GIE consortium formed in 1970 to the new corporation in exchange of a 20% stake ...
Hutty joined the Airbus Defence and Space graduate scheme in 2010, focussing on dynamic and stress analysis. [1] She was offered a permanent position in the Spacecraft Structures Engineering Group and began work on the ExoMars rover, now the Rosalind Franklin rover, which is due to launch in the mid-2020s. Her work was to bring the design to ...
Sir Iain Gilmour Gray CBE FRSE FREng (born 22 March 1957) is a British engineer and academic, working as Professor and Director of Aerospace at Cranfield University since 2015.
An Airbus A400M, which is powered by the Europrop TP400. The UK-headquartered Rolls-Royce Group is the world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines (behind General Electric). [102] [103] It has over 50,000 employees, of whom about 23,000 are based in the United Kingdom. [66]
ADS Group Limited, informally known as ADS, is the trade organisation representing the aerospace, defence, security and space industries in the United Kingdom.It has more than 1,000 member companies across its sectors, including some of the UK's largest manufacturers, like Airbus, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Meggitt PLC and GKN.
The Royal Aeronautical Society is a worldwide society with an international network of 67 branches. Many practitioners of aerospace disciplines use the Society's designatory post-nominals such as FRAeS, CRAeS, MRAeS, AMRAeS, and ARAeS (incorporating the former graduate grade, GradRAeS). The RAeS headquarters is at 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J ...
Prior to the establishment of the Defence Helicopter Flying School (DHFS) in 1997, each of the UK's air-arms provided their own helicopter crew training. The Royal Air Force (RAF) trained crews using the Westland Gazelle HT.3 at No. 2 Flying Training School based at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire and 705 Naval Air Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA ...
In 2016, Ascent Flight Training selected Airbus Helicopters to supply 32 helicopters to train Fleet Air Arm, Army Air Corps and Royal Air Force rotary aircrew in a £500m contract out to 2033. Airbus will provide 29 H135 airframes, to be known as Juno HT1 in service, and 3 H145 airframes, known as Jupiter HT1. Due to the reduced requirement for ...