Citation
(1998), "Call to reaffirm value of aeronautics industry", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 70 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1998.12770aab.019
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1998, MCB UP Limited
Call to reaffirm value of aeronautics industry
Call to reaffirm value of aeronautics industry
The Confederation of European Aerospace Societies has reviewed European strengths and weaknesses in aeronautics technology in a Position Paper entitled Aeronautical Research and Technology - A Strategic Imperative for Europe.
The paper calls for European governments to reaffirm the value of the aeronautics industry as a key industrial asset, restore investment in research and technology acquisition to a level more comparable, as a proportion of turnover, to that of the USA and improve co-ordination of R&T programmes within Europe.
The Society, as a founding member of the CEAS, supports the view that there should be an increase of at least 50 per cent in the total European investment in aeronautical R&T, but points out that for the UK, which lags well behind France and Germany in this respect, an appreciably greater increase is needed.
Details from Sarah McCarthy, Public Affairs Manager. Tel: 0171 499 3515; Fax: 0171 629 5937; E-mail: sarah.mccarthy@raes.org.uk