Labels:text | aircraft | newspaper | vehicle | airplane OCR: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY throughout the world, totalling more than 20,000 such as optics, computing and electronics. These flights every month. days, electronics plays a vital part in aeronautic As in previous years, NASA organised a special and space activities and the professional elec- exhibition on the latest developments in space tronics industry has an increasingly important role technology, around the theme of "The New Age of Exploration". Applications of in various areas such as navigation aids, control and management of naviga- aerospace technology in the tion, radio communications, public domain were high- visualisation, arms systems lighted, in much the same and counter-measures and way that Formula 1 racing simulation. technology often leads the The head of major US way for developments in the aerospace electronics com- cars which are driven on pany Honeywell highlighted public roads. the significance of the Paris Proving the technological Air Show for his company, worth of industrial materials, despite high costs which led particularly those which have to a reduction in the size of applications in both civil and the corporate team in at- military contexts, has impor- tendance at the 1993 show. tant commercial implications, John Dewane, president of since cost savings are con- siderable when quantities manufactured are doubled. Above: Dassault Mirage 2000 Areas concerned included Below: British Aerospace Hawk 200 (foreground) and high-performance technology Mikoyan MIG-29
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