NASA, Alabama aerospace hub developing SLS, most powerful rocket for space
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Airbus’ passenger jet production center will launch Alabama into the commercial jet manufacturing business in 2015. But an Alabama aerospace hub has long played a critical role in a different kind of flight – space travel. More than four decades after going to the moon with the Alabama-designed Saturn V rocket, NASA is…
Boeing Alabama operations take aim at missile threats, help develop Mars rocket
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Boeing Co.’s commercial jet business has racked up billion-dollar orders at the Paris Air Show this week. The company’s Alabama operations are concentrating on different tasks – making a rocket powerful enough to get man to Mars and defending against enemy missile threats. A lot has changed in the 51 years since…
Airbus announces orders for A320 family, shows off new innovations in Paris
PARIS, France — Governor Robert Bentley as well as representatives from Mobile and Baldwin Counties and the Mobile Airport Authority all held meetings with various executives at Airbus this week at the Paris Air Show. Those meetings were largely focused on ongoing plans for the Airbus final assembly line at Mobile Brookley Aeroplex, which will produce…
Alabama’s successes so far this year at the Paris Air Show
As lunchtime approaches in the U.S., business is beginning to wrap up on the third day the 2013 Paris Air Show. With dozens of meetings complete, Alabama Secretary of Commerce Greg Canfield highlighted three major successes for Alabama at this year’s international aerospace trade event. 1. Progress with Airbus suppliers “Over the past three days…
Alabama cities at the Paris Air Show: Huntsville, Mobile, Baldwin County, Montgomery and more
PARIS, France — In addition to Governor Robert Bentley representing the state in meetings this week at the Paris Air Show, a number of Alabama cities and counties sent representation to meet with companies at the show, particularly municipalities with existing aerospace industry businesses that see opportunity to expand. Of course both Huntsville and Mobile…
Governor Bentley wraps up successful two days at Paris Air Show, work continues
PARIS, France — Governor Robert Bentley is traveling back to Alabama today after two long days of back-to-back meetings at the Paris Air Show. The governor held meetings with 24 aerospace industry companies in Paris and leaves with new relationships and several leads on potential aerospace projects and expansions for the state. “The most important…
Photo Gallery: Day Two at Paris Air Show for Alabama team
PARIS, France — Day Two at the Paris Air Show for Team Alabama began with business meetings and concluded with a reception hosted by officials from Mobile and Baldwin counties. Below is a photo gallery that shows Governor Robert Bentley and economic development officials talking at an early morning strategy session and later at the…
Futuristic Raytheon Alabama factory makes missiles with robots
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – In the futuristic Raytheon Alabama factory, robotic vehicles glide silently across gleaming plant floors, transporting nose cones and other missile parts to the precise spots where they are needed for assembly. The $75 million Raytheon Redstone Missile Integration Facility in Huntsville, however, is not simply a marvel of technological design. The 70,000-square-foot…
PPG Aerospace displays its Alabama aircraft window expertise at Paris Air Show
PARIS, France — If you see one of the new jetliners cutting through the sky over the Paris Air Show, you may wonder how it got its sophisticated, high-technology windshields and windows. There is a good possibility they came from the PPG Aerospace facility in Huntsville. With a number of hallmark transparency technologies to tout,…
GE Aviation laser technology powers innovation at Alabama jet engine plant
AUBURN, Alabama — A new GE Aviation plant in Auburn will use Star Wars-like laser technology to help the industry giant produce critical jet engine components at a time when global demand for aircraft is projected to surge. Inside the GE Aviation plant in Auburn, workers use powerful lasers to drill miniscule cooling holes in…
