FAC gives cautious welcome to Heathrow expansion

Farnborough Aerospace Consortium (FAC) has given a cautious welcome to the Chancellor’s announcement to permit a third runway at Heathrow Airport. The trade association, based at the centre of the county’s most important aerospace and aviation region, represents hundreds of businesses in the industry.

Eighty years after the death of Spitfire ace Ken Collier, he flies again

After a 25-year process of design and manufacture, arguably the finest depiction of a Spitfire in flight has been cast in bronze. Weighing a quarter of a ton with a 6.5ft wingspan, the sculpture was viewed by Her Late Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, on a tour of the foundry where it was created.

Aerospace on cusp of revolution

The aerospace sector’s push for net-zero flight will result in an aviation revolution that will be as influential as Whittle’s jet engine, the Farnborough Aerospace Consortium’s conference has heard.

Aerospace conference speakers announced

Farnborough Aerospace Consortium’s annual conference will hear from some of the sector’s biggest names, it has announced. The event will be held at Brooklands Museum and follows the successful Farnborough Air Show at which £81.5bn in deals were signed.

FAC conference REACHes new heights

Manufacturers are facing huge uncertainty and potential losses unless the EU clarifies its chemical regulations, the annual conference of Farnborough Aerospace Consortium heard. The FAC event at Brooklands Museum in Surrey brought together big names in the aerospace, defence and space sectors who spoke to delegates mainly from SMEs.