Keeping Britain at the forefront of Aviation
Archive for September, 2010
Newsletter – Sept/Oct 2010
1 year ago
After just over six months as your Chairman I wanted to let everyone know a little more about our new initiatives. First of all, I am delighted at the progress made by The Leading Edge. For the first time since I joined the Air League in 1993 I really feel we are engaging properly with tomorrow’s aviators. Apart from the visit programme being organised by Andy Perkins and his team, their presence at Futures Day at Farnborough was very successful and resulted in a number of new members being signed up. We are also indebted to Jenny Tye and Dan Marshall for their work to improve our website and our publicity material.
Cuts for now – or forever?
1 year ago
by Andrew Brookes
in Insights
Filling a £37bn black hole in planned but unfunded purchases may spell doom for some Royal Air Force capabilities.
UK defence secretary Liam Fox’s recent speech on the vexed question of his ministry’s grievously overstretched budget raised as many questions as it answered.
Air League Director Andrew Brookes’ view is presented in this Flight International article along with other leading aerospace officials.
