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Article: Smiths Aeorspace fighting the fallout of 9/11
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- Interavia
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright Aerospace Media Publishing Jul/Aug 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The last two years have been a rollercoaster ride for Smiths Aerospace most of it, fortunately, heading in the right direction. "Two years ago, I had just joined Smiths," says president and managing director Dr John Ferrie, "then we merged with TI, then we unveiled the new Aerospace organization and then there was the trauma of September llth." With airlines in the doldrums after the attacks and commercial aircraft orders, for a while at least, in a period of freefall, the trauma was as acutely felt by Smiths as any other aerospace company. But Smiths has been fortunate - "clever" might be a more apt description - in the fact that its presence in the defence sector, combined with its ...