Angus Batey has been contributing to various titles within the Aviation Week Network since 2009. He has reported from military bases, industrial facilities, trade shows and conferences, on topics ranging from defense and space to business aviation, advanced air mobility and cybersecurity.
When the former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband coined the neologism "squeezed middle," he was thinking about middle-income families. But the term might yet come to refer to certain parts of the aerospace industry.
One telling data point from Britain's combat mission to Afghanistan has stuck with Andrew Naismith, a former commander of RAF Chinook forces in the country.