Kaman said it would also cut 90 aerospace jobs in Connecticut.
Mary Smith, executive director of the Aerospace Alliance of Tulsa, said there were 143,000 aerospace jobs in the state, with almost a fifth of that in the Tulsa area.
Raya Fidel, a professor in the university's Information School, and Maurice Green, an assistant professor, tracked how 31 aerospace engineers got information vital to their work.
So it is not the apocalypse yet; it is not even the early 1990's, when defense cutbacks cost the state 200,000 aerospace jobs that never came back.
In the 1960s and '70s, aerospace engineers tried to solve the problem by seeking exact mathematical equations or relying on intuition.
Mr. Sardenberg, the technology minister, said "8 of the top 15 aerospace firms in the United States" had been at the site here, including, according to the visitors' logbook at the space center, Lockheed Martin, Orbital Sciences, Rockwell International and Boeing.
And, perhaps most important, it has clawed its way back from a series of economic calamities, including more than 50,000 aerospace job cuts and military base closings that made the last recession all the more fierce here.
It has helped draw about 50 aerospace contractors to the region, lured by several billion dollars'-worth of government contracts.America's last space-shuttle launch is scheduled for July 8th.
So it seems a strange time for BAE Systems, the FTSE 100 aerospace and defence giant, to splash out on a stake in an Oxfordshire-based company which is developing an engine that could revolutionise space travel.
Tom Clark, who is currently helping some 400 aerospace engineers to move from southern California to Denver, says many worry that prices on the coast will rise beyond their reach.
