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GKN Delivers First Future Lynx Airframe

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Friday, December 12th, 2008

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Britain's GKN Aerospace said it delivered the first complete, state-of-the-art, Future Lynx helicopter airframe on schedule Thursday to Finmeccanica's AgustaWestland, the design authority for the program. "Our goal has been to create a highly effective operational airframe with an extremely efficient design and a truly cost effective manufacturing cycle," Marcus Bryson, GKN's CEO said. "We have achieved this through innovations across the manufacturing process and through a close working relationship between AgustaWestland and GKN Aerospace Yeovil and our UK-based supplier…

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