The Flemish Aerospace Group (FLAG) is an association of Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 aerospace

Aerospace

Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space...

 industries and related partners, which is located in Flanders

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

, the northern part of Belgium

Belgium

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 (Europe

Europe

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). The FLAG was founded in 1980 as part of the Derde Industriële Revolutie in Vlaanderen (E:third industrial revolution in Flanders) initiative of Gaston Geens

Gaston Geens

Gaston C.S.A. Geens was a Flemish politician and minister-president of Flanders....

 and has about 80 members.

Activities

The FLAG groups companies and partners in the following areas:

• Aeronautics
  Aeronautics
  Aeronautics is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of airflight-capable machines, or the techniques of operating aircraft and rocketry within the atmosphere...
  
  
• Space
  Space
  Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum...
  
  
• Associated high-tech
• Airport
  Airport
  An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...
  
  s, Airline
  Airline
  An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...
  
   and Business Aviation and Airport companies
• Education and Training of Engineer
  Engineer
  An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...
  
  s, Technician
  Technician
  A technician is a worker in a field of technology who is proficient in the relevant skills and techniques, with a relatively practical understanding of the theoretical principles. Experienced technicians in a specific tool domain typically have intermediate understanding of theory and expert...
  
  s and Pilots
• Consulting and accompanying the economic return
  ROI
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   and offsets for Defence
  Defense (military)
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   Programs in the Aerospace Sector
• Consulting body to the Belgian federal government
  Belgian federal government
  The Cabinet of Belgium is the executive branch of the Belgian federal government, consisting of ministers and secretaries of state drawn from the political parties which form the governing coalition. Formally, the ministers are appointed by the King...
  
   and Flemish government
  Flemish government
  The Flemish Government is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region. It consists of up to a maximum of eleven ministers, chosen by the Flemish Parliament...
  
  , and the Flemish Employers Organisation
  Voka
  Voka is a small borough in Toila Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia....
  
  , on topics related to Aerospace.

See also

• Agoria
  Agoria
  Agoria is Belgium's largest employers' organisation and trade association. The companies represented by Agoria are active in 13 branches of the technology industry: aerospace, automotive, construction products, contracting & maintenance, electrical engineering, industrial automation, ICT,...
  
  
• Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
  Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
  The Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy is a Belgian federal scientific research institute...
  
  
• Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe
  Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe
  The Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe is a European Seventh Framework Programme initiative to improve the competitive situation of the European Union in the field of aeronautics...
  
  

Source

• FLAG (Dutch)
• FLAG (expo)
• Aerospace in Belgium