Keeping you ahead of competitors and legislators
Our customers include a whole range of civil aerospace businesses, from industry giants to smaller specialist suppliers. Many come to us because we can draw on our unrivalled domain knowledge to develop broader commercial applications for often highly specialised military technologies. But they also want us on their team because we put many of the sector’s keenest brains and world’s finest facilities at their service.
To give you the briefest snapshot of how we can make a difference to your civil aviation activities:
- Our rapid prototyping tools allow you to test, evaluate, confirm or refine complex system concepts before committing to full-scale development
- Our airframe and engine support service helps you maximise your air fleet’s availability safely and cost-efficiently
- Our Multi-Disciplinary Optimisation tool allows large aircraft manufacturers to consider key design disciplines simultaneously to cut development time and risk
- Boeing is just one manufacturer using our 5 Metre wind tunnel in Farnborough to test and validate low-speed aerodynamic performance
- Our Unmanned Air System (UAS) can deliver cost-effective aerial surveys, inspection, and traffic and infrastructure surveillance to meet civil users’ needs
- One test pilot called our trim speaker technology ‘The best audio system I have ever heard on an aircraft’. It can transform passengers’ in-flight audio experience