Three regions - one goal
The UK's aerospace giants are committed to major global projects, which will ensure a good platform for the Farnborough air show. Mark Venables reports.

The UK has the world's largest aerospace industry outside the
, with aerospace-based activity responsible for more than £17bn turnover in 2004 and supporting a highly-skilled workforce of over 255,000.
Our involvement in projects such as the Airbus A380, JSF and Boeing 787 will ensure a good platform for
's premier aerospace event, the biennial
(17-23 July Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire) where many of the companies will be out in force.
Three regions — the east of England, the north-west and the Midlands — are fighting to earn their share of that market, and with companies such as Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Goodrich and Marshall Aerospace within those areas, they are well placed to capitalise.
The
aerospace cluster generates more than 45,000 jobs in local companies, many of them high-skill programme development and management or manufacturing jobs. In addition to this, supporting companies and organisations generate thousands of other jobs.
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