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Commercial aerospace’s ‘macro-innovation race’ is on. What will defence do?

by Nick Cook | Feb 25, 2021 | Analysis

Commercial aerospace’s ‘macro-innovation race’ is on. What will defence do? Aerospace’s macro-innovation drought is over – the starting gun has been fired on what will likely be the defining issue of the next era of flight: the race to ‘net-zero’...

Commercial aerospace’s ‘macro-innovation race’ is on. What will defence do?

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