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...Another potential competitor is America’s Sikorsky....
...Fiat had links with the pariah north African state: not only was it part-owned by a Libyan state bank but had a Libyan executive on its five-man board....
...Westland Lysander, anyone?...
...For many in the Kenyan capital, the mall in the affluent Westlands district symbolises the wealth of a fast-growing city....
...helicopter company triggered one of the most memorable of all resignations, when the golden-maned defence secretary Michael Heseltine stormed out of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet in 1986 at the height of the Westland...
...The Tory peer resigned as defence secretary in 1986 after his attempts to guide Westland into a European consortium were thwarted by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who preferred to see a US buyer...
...A contest between European and US defence collaboration led to Michael Heseltine’s stormy exit from Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet during the Westland affair. The then defence secretary favoured Europe....
...Since 1986, when Michael Heseltine quit Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet over the ownership of Westland, the British helicopter company, questions about who makes the equipment for British troops have dogged...
...I think I have also seen the Westland Magical Garden of fellow broadcaster Diarmuid Gavin at its best....
...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....
...The biggest growth will be in the Asia-Pacific region, with a requirement for 180,600 pilots and China alone needing 70,600, but Europe will need nearly 95,000 – and North America more than 97,000....
...“When those guys signed up, not to help me but to pursue the same mission, I knew I had some good momentum,” says Mr Sipprelle, who founded Westland Ventures, an investment firm, after winding down Copper...
...To do so, Agusta defeated the incumbent Sikorsky, part of United Technologies – which had built and maintained the Marine One helicopters since 1957 – in what was seen as a litmus test for the competitiveness...
...You can’t have a poet going on tour in Agusta AW109 Power helicopters. Ha, ha, ha.”...
...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....
...“When you come to Las Vegas you know you’ll lose some money,” said Cheryl Westland, who was visiting from California and playing slots in the Tropicana....
...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...
...After all, Westland helicopters are today under Italian ownership. Minis, Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars are built by Germans....
...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,...
...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...
...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...
...The aeronautical engineer had previously sold helicopters for Westland, but was seized by the desire to run his own business....
...Indeed, the Italians, who had recently taken over Westland, had warned that unless the group secured the US presidential contract the future of Westland’s Yeovil plant and some 4,000 UK jobs would be at...
...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...
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