Identifying the source of your supplied metals is the main purpose of Conflict Minerals Compliance. A Smelter is the first stop for raw materials once they have been mined or recycled by the provider.
The first airplane to take flight was built by the Wright brothers  in Ohio USA and was transported first to North Carolina and flown  for its first time there.
The jet engine has allowed millions of people now to do something that was barely thinkable just 70 years ago â crossing the Atlantic at speed. The Wrightâs may have invented the first real aeroplane, but the credit for the invention of the jet engine goes to Sir Frank Whittle. In the 1920âs, a young RAF man, Frank Whittle, had presented to the Air Ministry a design for a jet engine.