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Normalair‐Garrett Ltd., (Stand No. N31) part of the Westland plc Group of Yeovil, Somerset, is exhibiting a wide range of products which demonstrate the company's diverse capabilities in control systems and precision components for the aerospace industry.

On 29th April four companies — BAC, HSA, HS Dand Scottish Aviation — each with notable pedigrees — come together in British Aerospace. They will form an aerospace enterprise which in width of experience and total capability matches any other single organisation in the world aerospace industry.

As part of the V.10 F programme financed by Service Technique de la Production Aeronautique (STPA), AEROSPATIALE and DASSAULT — BREGUET have joined forces to produce a single Falcon 10 wing entirely made of carbon fibre. This wing has just been sent from the AEROSPATIALE Company's Nantes factory to the Toulouse Aernautic Testing Centre. A second wing will also be built, but this time, by DASSAULT‐BREGUET Biarritz plant. The two wings will be used for static fatigue testing. The programme calls for another pair of wings, one to be made by each of the same firms. They will later be mounted to a Falcon 10 for flight testing.

BRITISH AEROSPACE is pushing ahead with more production applications and further development of the superplastic forming and diffusion bonding (SPF/DB) titanium fabrication technique.

AMONG all the anxious, complex and difficult problems which confront the United Kingdom and its people in these times of economic and social stress, there are none of more importance and significance for the future than those of British manufacturing in general and of the Aircraft — or “Aerospace” — Industry in particular.

Rolls‐Royce has completed a successful series of tests on a Pegasus vectored‐thrust engine fitted with Plenum Chamber Burning (PCB) at a new open‐air facility within the Ministry of Defence test establishment at Shoeburyness, Essex.

Discusses how recent changes in the European defence market have forced leading defence companies to make significant changes to their corporate strategy. Examines these changes, reviews the existing literature on strategic change in the defence sector and provides a detailed case study of British Aerospace. Shows that the process of strategy formulation is complex and changing. Moreover, makes it clear that the defence market is restructuring at a European and international level and that the process of managerial collaboration is intensifying. Says that the future of the defence industry and the strategic focus of defence firms is thus unlikely to remain in the hands of national governments but will be determined at a European or global level.

AIR skates manufactured by Hovair Systems Limited are being employed by British Aerospace to allow precise movement of Airbus A320 wings along the production line at the companies Filton plant.