As a dramatic contrast to the usual way of opening an air display, this 60th anniversary event features the first all-female parachute jump team to appear at a Farnborough International airshow. Known as the Aero Sekur Shooting Stars, the Italian team of skydiving women will open the show on each day to gracefully and silently provide a unique curtain raiser. The synchronized parachute jump performed by the Shooting Stars supports the company’s high profile presence here at the show.
Based at the Farnborough Business Park, Aero Sekur specializes in the manufacture of safety systems and advanced flexible structures for the aerospace and defense market. Of particular interest is a new emergency flotation system for helicopters, designed to be the first with non-pyrotechnic actuation. The company makes the system with new-generation textiles that are flexible as well as robust, resulting in a light, portable system.
