Reports suggested British Aerospace may take a stake of around 30% in Saab Aircraft, a Swedish aircraft maker.
British Aerospace is one company making some headway towards this with the method it uses to design fighter aircraft.
Oman subsequently purchased from British Aerospace a fleet of 15 Hawk jets, which it has been operating since the 1980s.
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Sir Richard Evans, the boss of British Aerospace, this month attacked John Major for failing to restrain his party's Eurosceptics.
Which is why 300 people from the British aerospace industry attended a recent seminar at Sheffield University about the research centre.
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But Bromley only got involved in the sport as part of a research project he was carrying out for British Aerospace.
In the mid-1980s Oman signed a contract with British Aerospace (as the company was then known) to buy eight Tornado aircraft.
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On April 15th John Weston, a managing director of British Aerospace, promised that French factories and research labs would be preserved.
British aerospace company Rolls-Royce is to cut about 320 jobs at its Bristol and Derby plants, according to the workers' union, Unite.
British aerospace company Rolls-Royce has reported a higher-than-expected rise in full-year profits.
In 1994, German luxury car-maker BMW announced the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace, ending nearly a century of independent mass car production in Britain.
The trade and industry secretary resigned after he was forced to apologise to the House about a letter which he had denied receiving from British Aerospace.
The recently launched Competitiveness Council, which includes the chairmen of British Aerospace and Glaxo Wellcome, a pharmaceuticals firm, has a remit that is striking both in its vagueness and its ambition.
But what did Chemapol want with such businesses as a regional airline, a national newspaper, financial services and Omnipol, which is the country's biggest arms dealer and an ally of British Aerospace?
"The greatest obstacle is the refusal by the aircraft's manufacturer -- formerly British Aerospace-Aerospatiale, now Airbus -- to lend its support to a restoration, " said aviation journalist David Kaminski-Morrow, air transport editor of Flightglobal.com.
In defence manufacturing, Britain is moving closer to Germany to the point where the two governments may well allow British Aerospace and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace to merge, leaving France's state-dominated industry to catch up later.
Europe's firms can help themselves by forming closer links with their American counterparts (as British Aerospace has done by co-operating with Lockheed Martin on a new scout vehicle and on America's new Joint Strike Fighter).
Although no contracts have yet been signed, British Airways was the first airline back in Libya after the embargo was lifted last year, and British Aerospace is said to have begun training programmes for Libyans.
MBEs were also awarded to the director general of the Society of British Aerospace Companies, Dr Sally Howe, from Woking in Surrey, as well as the founder and artistic director of the National Youth Ballet of Great Britain, Ms Jill Tookey, for her services to dance.
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It has been forced to cede ground on this to its partners, British Aerospace and Dasa, which both want factories working on Airbus planes to be owned and run by the new company, even though the wings, tails and cockpits have to be flown around Europe in a specially converted aeroplane, known as the Beluga, before final assembly.
Indeed, the U.K. government's recent intervention in a corruption investigation against British defense and aerospace company BAE Systems seems to affirm the weakness of its anti-corruption apparatus and its political commitment to enforce those laws.
In the British city of Cambridge, a private aerospace firm called Reaction Engines has been toiling away for more than 20 years to make reusable engines that can get a vehicle into space.
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His visit to Egypt was a hastily arranged affair, bolted on to the start of a long-planned commercial tour of Gulf Arab allies and made in the company of a plane-load of British business chiefs, among them the representatives of eight defence and aerospace firms, prompting press headlines at home about Mr Cameron preaching peace in the company of arms-dealers.
This concerns the privatisation of Italy's Alenia aerospace company: it has to choose between a Franco-German partner and a British one.
Such reforms would make the British economy "a winner in the global competitive race", he said, citing sectors such as aerospace, pharmaceuticals, financial services and the creative industries as "world beaters".
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