July 12-17, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
The rocket team from Horsforth Secondary School in England triumphed in a head-to-head matchup against the Team America Rocketry Challenge winners, who represented the U.S., at the Farnborough International Air Show Friday.
The teams competed in the first ever Trans-Atlantic Trophy challenge, which pitted the TARC winner from the U.S. -- Enloe High School in Raleigh, North Carolina -- against the winners of the United Kingdom Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge.
The two teams both executed relatively flawless launches, leading to a margin of victory for Horsforth of a relatively small 7.41 points.
AIA member company Raytheon sponsored the event and paid for the Enloe team's trip as part of the TARC first prize, which they earned in May.
AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey said both teams had much to be proud of.
"With kids this talented, there are nothing but winners here today," Blakey said. "All of these students excelled, and I expect we will see many of them as colleagues in the aerospace industry in a few years."
The Enloe team toured the air show later in the day, getting a close look at the aircraft in the U.S. military corral and watching aerial displays by aircraft like the F-16C and F/A-18F.
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Members of the rocket team from Enloe High School in Raleigh, N.C. compare notes with the team from Horsforth Secondary School in Yorkshire, England after the Trans-Atlantic Trophy rocket challenge in Farnsborough, England Friday. The Horsforth team edged the Enloe team for the title. From left: Alex Vitek, Francisco Cobo, Levon Keusseyan, James Cuffney and Leo Nichols.
The Enloe High School rocket launches during the Trans-Atlantic Trophy challenge at Farnborough Friday.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
The winning Team America Rocketry Challenge squad from Enloe High School in Raleigh, North Carolina arrived in London Thursday as they geared up for a fly-off against the British champions Friday.
Officials from Raytheon -- the company that sponsored the trip as part of TARC's first prize -- honored the students at a reception Thursday evening.
The team is facing off with the winners of the United Kingdom Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge, a team from Horsforth Secondary School in Yorkshire, England. Both teams will have two launches, with the better score used to determine the champion.
The dinner was also to express AIA's appreciation of the U.S. military air crews that take part in the show. AIA Vice President of National Security Fred Downey thanked the crews for their service in keeping our country safe and secure.
"It is you who are on the front lines ensuring our nation's freedom and security," Downey said. "On behalf of AIA's member companies, I want to salute you and thank you once again for all you do for your country."
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The sun shines through the canopy of an F-16C Fighting Falcon in the U.S. military aircraft corral at Farnborugh.
A view of the corral shows portions of an F-16C, F-15C, C-130J and C-17.
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
AIA President and CEO marion Blakey was a key speaker at the Sustainable Aviation Forum at Farnborough International Air Show Wednesday, warning that real improvements to the industry's environmental impact must be global in scale.
On a panel that included the heads of both Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Airbus as well as British Airways and Cathay Pacific, Blakey reiterated AIA's position that industry is ready to play the cornerstone role to making environmental advances. This is a role industry has always played, she said.
"Advanced technology is the workhorse when it comes to reducing our industry's impact onn the environment, as we can see in several new products being developed today," Blakey said. "And these efforts must be global in scope, because making improvements in a piecemeal, parochial basis ill fall flat."
Blakey called improvements to aviation's contribution to carbon emissions one of the great challenges of our time.
AIA President and CEO addressed the Sustainable Aviation Forum Wednesday.
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An F-16C Fighting Falcon performs a steep climb after taking off at Farnborough.
A B-1B Lancer bomber makes a flying pass over Farnborough Wednesday.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Aerospace leaders from the U.S. and Europe met at the Farnborough Airshow Tuesday, agreeing to close collaboration on international ethics initiatives, the industry's environmental performance and other issues.
AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey led the U.S. delegation, which included AIA Chairman Clay Jones of Rockwell Collins, Robert Stevens of Lockheed Martin and William Swanson of Raytheon. The European contingent, led by AeroSpace and Defense Industries Association of Europe Secretary-General Francois Gayet, included Ake Svensson of Saab, Allan Cook of Cobham and Denis Ranque of Thales.
The groups agreed to use the separate business ethics systems in the U.S. and Europe as a starting point to spread best practices around the world. They also agreed to cooperate on efforts to improve the industry's already good environmental performance.
The agreement will lead to an international forum on business practices as well as an environmental summit in Paris later this year.
Other issues the two groups talked about were export controls and efforts to ensure free and open markets around the world.
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Some of the aerospace leaders taking part in the CEO Dialogue at Farnborough Tuesday were, from left to right, Clay Jones of Rockwell Collins, AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey, Ake Svensson of Saab and Denis Ranque of Thales. |
Ambassador Robert H. Tuttle welcomed industry representatives to his residence at Winfield House Tuesday in a reception organized by AIA.
Hundreds of visitors participated in the event, hearing a welcome from Tuttle and AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey.
Blakey, who worked with Tuttle in the Reagan White House, thanked the ambassador for his support and complimented the close strategic relationship between the United Kingdom and United States. She also thanked the members of the armed services from both nations for their work.
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Ambassador Robert H. Tuttle greets guests Tuesday as AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey looks on. |
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Monday, July 14, 2008
The Farnborough International Airshow opened Monday with ceremonies and a spectacular performance by the F-22 Raptor fighter.
The air show kicked off with the opening of the USA Pavillion, an area of the trade show that covers three football fields and consists of all the American companies taking part in the air show. The pavillion included a section organized by AIA, where nine member companies were displaying their goods.
AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey took part in the pavillion opening, joining the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, the U.S. congressional delegation and other luminaries.
The F-22 Raptor stole the show with its aerobatics display Monday afternoon. The fifth-generation fighter jet gave its first international flight demonstration at the show. The Raptor only flew on Monday, touching off a frenzy of interest from show participants and media alike. The aerial displays also included the F-16 and F/A-18.
AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey takes part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the USA Pavillion at the air show with other dignitaries Monday. From left are Sen. Richard Shelby, U.S. Ambassador Robert Tuttle, Kallman Worldwide CEO Tom Kallman, Blakey and Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force Bruce Lemkin.
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Nine AIA member companies exhibited in the AIA booth within the USA Pavillion. |
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An F-22A Raptor puts on an aerial display at the Farnborough International Airshow Monday. It was the fifth-generation fighter's first foreign flying display.
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
A congressional delegation toured the U.S. military aircraft corral and had lunch with air crews as they visited the Farnborough International Airshow Sunday, a day before it officially opened.
The delegation consisted of Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Sen. Richard Shelby and Congressman Robert Cramer, both of Alabama.
The group chatted with the crews who flew the aircraft to the airfield near London for the show, journeys that took days in some cases and just hours in others.
They walked inside two cargo aircraft – Lockheed Martin's C-130J Hercules and Boeing's C-17 Globemaster – and talked to company officials and the crews.
Also Sunday, AIA sponsored a reception with the Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies, where President and CEO Marion Blakey lauded the close relationship between the two countries. Later AIA hosted a dinner that featured an address by Baroness Ann Taylor, the UK minister of Defence Equipment and Support.
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Congressman Robert Cramer (left) greets AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey as Sen. Jim Inhofe looks on in the U.S. military aircraft corral at the Farnborough International Airshow Sunday. |
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Sen. Richard Shelby and AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey talk to a crew member in a C-130-J. |
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SJAC Chairman Ikuo Mori (left), SJAC President Koskue Imashimizu and AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey listen on as AIA Chairman Clay Jones of Rockwell Collins addresses reception attendees. |
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A U.S. Air Force pilot shows the cockpit to Sen. Richard Shelby (center) and Congressman Robert Cramer. |
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
More than a dozen aerospace industry companies kicked off the Farnborough International Airshow Saturday with a charity dinner that raised $112,000 for a British soldier's advocacy group.
A total of 14 companies contributed to the donation to Help for Heroes, an organization that raises money to help wounded British soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Executives from the companies presented a check to Bryn Parry, who founded Help for Heroes last year after talking to wounded soldiers and asking what he could to do help.
Guests attending the dinner at the London Army Navy Club included U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe.
Contributing companies were ATK, BAE Systems, Boeing, CAE USA, Cubic, DRS Technologies, General Atomics, GE Aviation, Goodrich, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and United Technologies.
The CEOs of the companies that donated to Help for Heroes and other dignitaries pose near the symbolic $112,000 check at the AIA charity dinner Saturday.
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