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Questions why smoking in the workplace needs revisiting. Looks at the health risks of smoking before covering the cost to the organisation. Discusses new Californian legislation and outlines actions employers must take to comply with these. Provided a list of exemptions and some key policy considerations. Give general guidelines for designing and implementing smoking policies.

MBM Technology Ltd of Brighton, East Sussex, a subsidiary of The Morgan Crucible Company plc, has won a major contract worth well in excess of £2m for the design and manufacture of the weapons carriage and release equipment for use on the RAF Tornado strike aircraft.

The subject of my talk is “Aero Engine Development—The Next Generation.” To understand where we are going, it is essential to understand where we are today, and to trace the technological achievements that made possible the tremendous progress we have seen in aircraft gas turbines.

In ceremonies commemorating the 40th anniversary of the first US jet flight, General Electric Company of the USA inducted jet pioneer Sir Frank Whittle into its Aircraft Engine Hall of Fame during opening day of the 1982 Farnborough Air Show activities at this historic British aviation site.

The University of Essex are offering a new series of short “Laser Workshop” courses during the Spring of 1980, which are designed to make a number of important laser applications more widely known in industry and experts from many organisations have agreed to participate.

PRODUCTION of titanium in the USA during 1974 has been estimated at 15 000 tons, with the aerospace industry taking 75 per cent of the output. This is a considerable increase in the amount used during the preceding twelve months, and indicates that the trend towards titanium products for strength to weight ratio benefits has been accelerated by companies finding that cost reduction can be achieved by extensive use of titanium alloys. It is of interest to note that commercial aviation in the USA has represented the largest single user of this metal, but that this has recently changed with a marked trend towards military applications and in particular, the Grumman F‐14 and McDonnell Douglas F‐15 aircraft.

Helicopter pilots carrying out search and rescue missions in zero visibility or a force eight gale rely totally on their electronic flight control systems. Few of those pilots, however, are aware that their remarkable safety record is due in part to the work of Pam Smith, one of the most outstanding systems engineers in the field of helicopter flight control. This week, Pam's achievements over the past 22 years have been recognised with the award of an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

BRISTOW Helicopters has now recorded over 15,000 operational AS332L Bristow Tiger and Sikorsky S‐61N flying hours with its combined Cockpit Voice and Flight Data Recorder (CVFDR). Developed in conjunction with GEC‐Plessey Avionics as part of an Integrated Health and Usage Monitoring System (IHUMS), the system received United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority approval in December 1991, well in advance of regulations requiring its installation in all UK registered public transport helicopters by 31 July 1992.

Following the naming of Fred MacFee, Jr as Vice‐President and Group Executive of General Electric's Aircraft Engine Group, several changes in staff assignments have been announced effective 1 April 1978.

Dowty Aerospace is preparing itself to meet the global challenge of the coming decades by restructuring the present site based organisation.