MARCH 29--Snecma (Villaroche, France), a Safran Group company that designs, develops, and produces engines for civil and military aircraft, launch vehicles, and satellites, is using a Silver 450M thermal IR camera from Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France;
www.cedip-infrared.com ) to help its engineers improve the design of its aero-engines.