Parachute Maker Eyes Military, NASA for Flight

From: Orange County Business Journal | Date: May 16, 2005| Author: Womack, Brian | Copyright information

Parachute maker Irvin Aerospace Inc. is looking for a lift from the recent win of a key military contract and work on NASA's next generation of spaceships.

Following the initial battles in Afghanistan during late 2001 and Iraq in early 2003, the Santa Ana company saw orders soar for parachutes that help everything from tanks to people to flares drift safely to earth.

Sales were more than $30 million in 2004-about double what they were three years earlier. It grew from 200 worker...

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