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AEROSPACE<br />
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22: Managing the<br />
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34: The good, the bad,<br />
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<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=3"> WELCOME W e entered 2025 following another tumult</a>
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<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=5"> CONTENTS BRIEFING 04 A selection of news from ADS</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=6"> ADS BRIEFING Government boosts UK orbital launch </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=7"> air dominance secured now and in the future </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=8"> BRIEFING </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=9"> WHAT WILL DEFINE THE FUTURE OF AEROSPACE AND DEFE</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=10"> FROM THE TOP Nick Chaffey, Northrop Grumman's chi</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=11"> DEFENCE technology under the </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=12"> FROM THE TOP </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=13"> CAREERS </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=14"> marshallgroup.com Supporting critical military o</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=15"> AEROSPACE T here are many similarities between th</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=16"> AEROSPACE </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=17"> THE HIGHER WE GO, THE CLOSER WE GET TO A BETTER T</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=18"> AEROSPACE Capt Colin McGannity, the commander, </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=19"> MARINE COMMANDING CRAFT the Thales Martlet s</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=20"> AEROSPACE With the unloved Apprenticeship </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=21"> TRAINING iSTOCK IMAGES:JORAMCO (LEFT) AND New t</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=22"> AEROSPACE SME champion Peter Knight, recently r</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=23"> MMA about h</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=24"> DEFENCE Straight and level: The MOD has been </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=25"> Advancing the Future Together Based on long-stan</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=26"> DEFENCE </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=27"> STRATEGY M ike Hickson,</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=28"> DEFENCE </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=29"> Photo credit: BAE Defining the Future Innovativ</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=30"> DEFENCE FYOUS BREAKS THE MOULD Two British inn</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=31"> INNOVATION WITH A TOOL TO DIE FOR Mould glory: f</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=32"> DEFENCE A rash of incidents that have damaged u</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=33"> TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: ALLSORTZ We'll take the AI ro</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=34"> Providing the next generation of experts in the s</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=35"> SECURITY TIME TO ZONE IN In the zone (clockwise </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=36"> SECURITY </a>
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<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=38"> SECURITY </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=39"> RECRUITMENT </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=40"> RECRUITMENT </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=41"> ACCESS OPPORTUNITIES ADS MEMBER BENEFITS Acces</a>
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<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 43" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=43"> SPACE The inaugural Farnborough International Spa</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 44" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=44"> SPACE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 41 brings, including </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 45" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=45"> CONFERENCE REPORT Interplanetary clipper: An</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 46" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=46"> MY WORKING WEEK James Hamilton </a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 47" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=47"> 310 million passengers a year fly safely thanks t</a>
<a title="ADVANCE March - May 2025 page 48" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4e22e2ec?page=48"> WHAT WILL DEFINE THE FUTURE OF AEROSPACE AND DEFE</a>