Rolls-Royce, is a global business, providing and supplying integrated power systems for use on land, at sea and in the air. The Group has established a strong position in - civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy markets.The Rolls-Royce Group has a broad customer base including more than 600 airlines, 4,000 corporate and utility aircraft and helicopter operators, 160 armed forces, more than 2,000 marine customers, and energy customers in nearly 120 countries. With facilities in 50 countries, Rolls-Royce employs 39,000 people worldwide and has businesses headquartered in the UK, US, Canada, Germany, Scandinavia, Singapore and China. This global presence allows the Group to access long-term international growth opportunities. Rolls-Royce continues to invest in core technologies, products, people and capabilities.In 2008, Rolls-Royce invested £885 million on research and development, two thirds of which was aimed at further improving the environmental aspects of the Group’s products. The primary technology investment is directed towards reducing noise and emissions.

Embraer-Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, production, and sale of jet and turboprop aircraft for civil and defense aviation, and aircraft for agricultural use worldwide. It operates in four segments: Commercial Aviation, Defense and Government, Executive Aviation, and Aviation Services. The Commercial Aviation segment develops, produces, and sells commercial jets, as well as supplies support services. The Defense and Government segment designs, develops, manufactures, and supports a range of integrated solutions for the defense and government market. Its products include training/light attack aircraft, C4ISR (command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) systems, aerial surveillance platforms, and transport airplanes. The Executive Aviation segment develops, produces, and sells executive jets, as well as provides support services. This segment markets executive jets to companies, including fractional ownership companies, charter companies and air-taxi companies, and high-net-worth individuals. The Aviation Services segment provides after-sales customer support services; and manufactures and markets spare parts for the fleets of its commercial, executive, and defense and government customers. The company also sells or leases used aircraft; provides structural parts, and mechanical and hydraulic systems; and manufactures general aviation propeller aircraft, such as executive planes and crop dusters. It has a strategic alliance with European Aerospace and Defense Group. The company was formerly known as Rio Han Empreendimentos e Participacoes S.A. Embraer was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil.

Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems (MABS), formerly K&F Industries Holdings, wants to bring aviation to a screeching halt. MABS makes steel brakes, carbon brakes, electric brakes, brake control systems, landing gear computers, brake temperature sensors, main and nose wheels, and wheel speed transducers. MABS braking systems are used in commercial and business jets, military aircraft, helicopters, regional turboprops, and general aviation aircraft. Major customers include Bombardier, Embraer, Gulfstream Aerospace, and Hawker Beechcraft. Meggitt USA, a subsidiary of UK-based Meggitt PLC, purchased K&F Industries in June 2007.

Hawker Beechcraft manufactures passenger planes and offers service and support for aircraft. The company's product line takes in business jets (including Hawker 400XP, Hawker 850XP, Hawker 4000, Beechjet Premier IA), turboprops (King Air 350/B200GT/C90GTi), and piston-powered aircraft (Baron G58, Bonanza G36). The company handles maintenance orders through more than 100 authorized and factory-owned service centers. Raytheon sold its Raytheon Aircraft subsidiary in 2007 in order to focus on its military contracting business. The buyers, Goldman Sachs Group and Onex Corporation, changed the name of the company to Hawker Beechcraft. The purchase price for the acquisition was about $3.3 billion.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, comprises two primary business units: Space Systems and Michoud Operations; and two joint ventures, United Space Alliance and United Launch Alliance. Space Systems comprises several core lines of business with major facilities in Denver, Colo., Sunnyvale, Calif., and other locations. Space Systems Company designs, develops, tests, manufactures and operates a full spectrum of advanced-technology systems for national security, civil and commercial customers. Chief products include human space flight systems; a full range of remote sensing, navigation, meteorological and communications satellites and instruments; space observatories and interplanetary spacecraft; laser radar; fleet ballistic missiles; and missile defense systems. Space Systems, with major operations in Denver, Colo., and Sunnyvale, Calif., is focused on several core lines of business: Human Space Flight, Global Communications Systems, Commercial Space, Sensing & Exploration Systems, Missile Defense Systems, Strategic Missiles, Commercial Launch Systems, Surveillance & Navigation Systems and Special Programs.

Radar, missiles, missile defense systems, and torpedoes are all in day's work for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS). A division of defense giant Raytheon, IDS designs, integrates, and maintains complex airborne, land, and naval technologies designed for both offensive and defensive operations. Major offerings include ballistic missile early warning radar systems, air-defense missile systems (Patriot), navigation and surveillance radars, ship- and helicopter-based anti-submarine sonars, naval defense systems, and naval torpedoes. It serves the US Armed Forces, the Department of Homeland Security, and the US Missile Defense Agency, to name a few.

Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. (NYSE: GY) company, is a major space and defense contractor specializing in missile and space propulsion, and defense and armaments. Since the company was founded in 1942, it has led the way in the development of crucial technology and products that have kept America strong and furthered human's exploration of space. At Aerojet, we work on projects that are substantial enough to be challenging, yet focused in objective, so your individual contribution is never lost in the process. We stress a strong ethical workplace, both in relation to the work we do and the sense of fairness that is extended to all employees, regardless of background. We believe that a primary reason for Aerojet's success is our focus on safety, quality, performance, schedule and cost. These priorities are the framework for everything we do at Aerojet and allow us to continue to produce quality products and technologies for which we are known.

The company keeps commercial and military aircraft aloft with its high-performance fuel-flow devices. It builds main engine fuel pumps and systems, airframe fuel pumps, and various ground fuel distribution products. Through its Carter Ground Fueling division, Argo-Tech also makes ground refueling equipment. Customers have included the US Army and Air Force, engine and airframe makers such as Airbus, Boeing, GE Aircraft Engines, and Lockheed Martin, and aerospace distributor Upsilon International. In 2007, investment concerns Greenbriar Equity Group and Vestar Capital Partners sold AT Holdings Corp., the parent of Argo-Tech, to Eaton.

Senior is an international manufacturing group with operations in 11 countries. Senior designs, manufactures and markets high technology components and systems for the principal original equipment producers in the worldwide aerospace, defence, land vehicle and energy markets.The Group consists of two divisions:Aerospace - Engine structures and mountings, metallic high-pressure ducting, air-frame and other structural parts, composite low-pressure ducting, and helicopter machined parts. For many years, Senior Aerospace has provided engineered solutions for the rigorous challenges of bleed air duct systems, precision sheet metal fabrications, bellows, metal hose assemblies, and other pressure carrying components that are flying in virtually all military and commercial aircraft and numerous piston and jet engines. The Senior Aerospace operations are located in the USA and Europe and produce precision machined components and mechanical assemblies for airframe and engine applications in civil and military rotary and fixed wing aircraft. The products manufactured include metallic and composite pneumatic ducting, bellows-sealed flexible joints, sheet metal components, hydraulic tubing components and assemblies. More recently the Division has added, through acquisition, the capabilities of machining airframe structural parts and precision components for rotary applications.Flexonics- Flexible exhaust connectors, cooling and emission control components, and diesel fuel distribution pipework. Metallic and fabric expansion joints, flexible metallic hoses, and ventilation ducting for industrial applications. Senior is a leading supplier of expansion joints, control bellows and hoses to the worldwide petrochemical, power generation and chemical processing industries. Increasingly, its products are being used in renewable energy sources such as solar and nuclear. Senior's diesel technologies support a growing number of major North American and European automotive and heavy truck manufacturers in meeting stringent emissions standards. Flexible exhaust connectors, cooling and emission control components and diesel fuel distribution pipework. Metallic and fabric expansion joints, flexible metallic hoses, and ventilation ducting for industrial applications.

A member of the royal family of European airlines, British Airways (BA) serves about 150 destinations in some 75 countries from hubs at London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The carrier operates a fleet of more than 240 aircraft, consisting mainly of Airbus and Boeing jets. BA extends its network to more than 500 destinations via code-sharing relationships, chiefly with AMR's American Airlines and other members of the Oneworld global marketing alliance, such as Iberia and Qantas. Among Europe's flag carriers, BA is outranked only by the combined Air France-KLM and by Lufthansa. Since mid-2008, BA has been engaged in merger talks with Iberia, Spain's #1 airline.

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