Aerospace Engineering Assignment
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AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
Table of ContentsCOMPANY OVERVIEW......................................................................................................................1INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................1Competitor analysis.....................................................................................................................2Companies internet site..............................................................................................................3CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................3REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................4
COMPANY OVERVIEWBritish Aerospace plc was a manufacturer of defence-systems, British aircraft and munitions. Its head office was at Warkwick House in Farnborough Aerospace centre in Farnborough, Hampshire. It dealt in making defence electronics and naval shipbuilding subsidiary and that formed BAE system. It was founded on 29 April 1977 and deal in making aircraft. The products that the company was specialised in producing were such as Aircraft production like BAe 125, BAe 146, Hawker 800, etc. Airliner wing production that includes Airbus A300, A310, A320 family etc. (Simmie, Sternberg and Carpenter, 2014). It also deals in missiles production such as ALARM, Rapier, Sea Wolf, Sea Eagle. The products that company made were also Unmanned AirVehicles, Space hardware and Security systems that they started producing for British military. INTRODUCTIONBritish Aerospace is a company that was established in 1977 began producing and providingfor the field of Aerospace. They provided services such as defence and security services andsystems they basted in Farnborugh, Hampshire. In 1991 the company expanded by acquiringMarconi Electroinic systems.BAE supplies very advanced top range, technology based defenceaerospace and security systems. they have more than 80,000 employees in more than 40countries. They worked with clients that are either customers or partners in the local field. Theydevelop, create and provide support systems and offer products that’s supports the military byenhancing their security and securing their valuable information. It was a British government subsidiary and later in 1981 government sold its 51.57% shares toform it Public Ltd company. The British government later sold its remaining shares in 1985 andkept a£1 golden share that allows it to veto foreign control of the company. The company waslater known as BAE system and in 1985 signed a contract with Saudi Arabian government theAl- Yamamah arms deal and BAe was as prime contractor. In 1988 BAe purchased Rover groupand also in 1991 acquired 30% shares interest in Hutchison Telecommunications from stock1
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