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Leading aviation sector in style

Never before performance! Qatari Air Force F-15/QA has made its formal public debut in style this week and has been wowing the crowds at the Dubai Airshow. Unburdened by any stores, without its conformal fuel tanks, and with outstanding fly-by-wire flight controls system, the airframe is rated to handle up to 9Gs while maneuvering, but the flight systems can be set to allow for up to 12Gs in an "emergency." Equipped with a pair of powerful F110-GE-129 engines rated for 30k Ib of thrust with afterburners. This is the most maneuverability for any F-15 variant achieved without thrust vectoring performing a tailslide, abrupt pulls, and extreme high-alpha flying. When asked, what is the angle of attack (AoA) limit is on the F-15QA, Boeing said: “There isn’t one.”! #airshow #aviation FL360aero

Can't wait to see the demo in STL!

But advanced manufacturing doesn’t matter now that we are a “services superpower” according to Resolution Foundation’s Torsten Bell, now a government MP and potential influencer. The reality is that this thesis overlooks the fact that the distinction between manufacturing and services has long been blurred. AESSEAL one of our most innovative advanced manufacturing companies has for decades regarded itself as a service industry, as have its customers; likewise Rolls-Royce was an early pioneer of “servitisation” many decades ago (power by the hour). Rather than make a fetish of these sectors perhaps we would do better to identify high growth, high value added businesses and adapt policy to accelerate their growth and market share. Defence, space, aerospace and energy are where the real growth is, especially in places like South Yorkshire: not services. The one big area of “service” growth is in financial services, which has had a deeply damaging effect on the wider economy over the last two decades as global “financialisation” creates waves of market uncertainty and volatility as exampled by the 2008 GFC and the Euro Crisis the following year: events that have seriously impeded productivity led growth. The challenge for manufacturing is not the lack of an “industrial strategy” or an “industrial strategy council “ but the corrupting power and influence the global financial system exerts over elected governments in the western world — particularly the US and the UK as Rana Foroohar and Mariana Mazzucato have so brilliantly chronicled. For those folk championing an industrial strategy and an independent council, they might do well to recall that the government appointed head of the UK’s Industrial Strategy Council before its demise was none other than Andy Haldane, a master of the universe and former chief economist at the Bank of England. Alongside Andy, the overwhelming majority of his fellow members were from the big “service” and “tech” providers, with just one lone SME manufacturing voice. When Booster Boris scuttled the Industrial Strategy and its Council everyone went down with the ship; mercifully few manufacturers were casualties however as they had not been invited on board when Theresa “strong and stable” May toasted its launch. Lesson. Be careful what you wish for.

Deals worth £13 Billion to the UK aerospace sector were announced at the 2024 Farnborough International Airshow. We have significant elements of the major players based in Wales including Airbus, BAE Systems, Thales, GE Aerospace and Raytheon UK and money from those deals will flow into local employment and supply chains. Around 700 sets of wings will be produced this year at the Airbus Broughton plant in Flintshire. As always we took a group of smaller companies with us on the Wales stand, supported by Welsh Government, some as exhibitors and others using the stand as a base for meetings during the show. An initial estimate suggests that total potential orders for those participants will reach £20 million this year, modest in terms of the sales achieved by the larger companies but vitally important for the smaller companies and the communities they serve across Wales. #FIAWales2024. https://lnkd.in/eEnYw-uc

👇 Here are the highlights from last week at Farnborough International! See you at the next event! 👋 Leonardo Cyber & Security #FIA2024 #cybersecurity #cyberresilience #LeonardoCYS

Hot off press at the Singapore Airshow, Brazillian airframer Embraer is seeing opportunities in Vietnam for "at least 50 jets" over the next five years, from a combination of new E2s and used E1 jets. Read more on Cirium Dashboard

Read about the Larger Bins solutions and Light Up a Life project on Airbus' participation in the FIDAE Airshow, among other topics! Check it out here https://lnkd.in/diieeHV8

Many are not aware that Air France's first few Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde aircraft were delivered in the airline's pre-1976 livery. Variations of this earlier color scheme had been used for decades by the French flag carrier. It was replaced by what could legitimately be called the very first "Euro-white" look. This is the design the company still uses, in slightly modified form, today. F-BTSC is seen here in the old livery, having been photographed in early 1976 at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. Sadly is was -BTSC which became the first, and only, Concorde to be involved in a fatal crash (in the year 2000 on departure from this very airport). After a long grounding for safety modifications the Anglo-French supersonic transports were returned to service with Air France and British Airways in 2001. The type was then permanently grounded in 2003 due largely to continuing very low load factors during the worldwide air traffic downturn in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington D.C. Interested in legendary Pan Am? Check out my new Tuesday and Friday posts for the Pan Am Historical Foundation at: https://lnkd.in/eJ_ES-RF. My latest post-link: Boeing 747-121 N748PA "Clipper Crest of the Wave" (originally "Hornet") at Chicago O'Hare Airport. Would you be willing to contribute to help me continue creating these free daily educational airline-history posts (over 1,350 since 2017, and counting)? If so please go to: https://lnkd.in/ebnx6r7U. Any size gift is much appreciated and can be anonymous if you prefer. #aviation #aviationhistory #aircraft #airplanes #airlines #airlinehistory #airlinesandairplanes #civilaviation #aerospatiale #britishaircraftcorporation #bac #concorde #airfrance #airfranceklm #charlesdegaulleairport #cdg (Please note there is no trade connection between The Commercial Aviation History Consultancy and the owner of the webpage, and associated image, to which this photo-link will take you.) Airliners.net link, Photo by Jean-François Denis