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...On the other side of the equation, Italy’s Agusta expanded its Westland aircraft holding and BAE Systems sold its Airbus interests to the European EADS consortium....
...Leonardo-Finmeccanica, which took full ownership of Westland Helicopters in 2004, three years after its merger with Italy’s Agusta, confirmed the decision to take work in-house....
...Companies including GSK, currently under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office, and Agusta Westland, where two executives were cleared of corruption last year in Italy, took part in the exercise, according...
...Westland Lysander, anyone?...
...Rohit Jaggi, the FT's aviation columnist flies to Paris in the Westland-Agusta 109 Grand...
...“We believe in an active industrial strategy, we want to support industry, Agusta-Westland is an important employer, but we want to know on what basis this decision was made.”...
...The BA609, conceived by Bell and Agusta as the civilian version of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor, has had what is possibly an even more difficult birth than the military Osprey....
...Its civil version, the Bell/Agusta BA609, will also not be cheap when it eventually comes to being delivered....
...on the south coast, where it operates a maintenance and support contract for Chinooks already in service with the RAF together with Vector Aerospace, or in the west country at a plant in Yeovil owned by Agusta-Westland...
...I found the same in real aircraft as varied as the Agusta 109 helicopter, Diamond’s DA42NG piston twin and the Bombardier Global 5000....
...Even Harley has struggled in the financial crisis, laying off workers, shutting its Buell sports- and touring-bike subsidiary and putting the recently bought Italian sports-bike manufacturer MV Agusta up...
...A range of defence companies is bidding for parts of this business, or is expected to do so, including Sikorsky, Bell, Raytheon and Honeywell of the US, Israel’s Elbit, France’s Thales, Augusta Westland,...
...Sabotage attempt When Lockheed Martin and Agusta-Westland, its European partner, won the $6bn contract to supply the White House with its new fleet of Marine One helicopters, it marked a breakthrough for...
...Predator that are firing missiles into the Pakistani tribal areas where al-Qaeda has established safe havens, Mr Gates cut more conventional programmes such as the VH-41 presidential helicopter designed by Agusta-Westland...
...Although Finmeccanica insists it won the $1.7bn presidential helicopter contract on the strength of its Agusta Westland product, many saw a reward for prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s assistance in Iraq...
...This month, Harley completed the purchase of Italy’s MV Agusta, which includes the Cagiva brand – completing a curious circular path. When I first got into bikes, Harley had a huge line-up....
...The Bell Agusta BA609, on track for certification in 2011, is a smaller tilt-rotor that would lend itself for militarisation – AgustaWestland will have a military mock-up on display at Farnborough....
...Team Active (it stands for Aircrew Collective Training through Immersive Virtual Events) also brought in four other groups: Aviation Training International, a Boeing/Westland joint venture that specialises...
...He reinforced the Italian group’s presence in the UK by taking full control of Westland and then picking up a clutch of defence electronics businesses from BAE Systems....
...Mr Guarguaglini reinforced the Italian group’s presence in the UK by taking full control of Westland and then picking up a clutch of defence electronics businesses from BAE Systems....
...Westland as prime contractor....
...Finmeccanica has recently emerged as BAE’s biggest rival in the UK through its ownership of Westland Helicopters and an avionics business....
...The government has also for the first time explicitly tied up acquisition with future maintenance and upgrade work in a helicopter order won by Agusta-Westland, the Yeovil-based manufacturer owned by Italy...
...Lang joined Strauss Turnbull straight from school, starting in the post room, and wrote his first circular – on Westland – in 1969....
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