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FARNBOROUGH SHOW REPORT
BOEING BACK
IN THE SKIES
Qatar Airways Dreamliner marks a return
to air display for airframer after 20 years
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VOLUME 182
NUMBER 5350
17-23 JULY 2012
PIC OF THE WEEK
YOUR PHOTOGRAPH HERE
AirSpace user apgphoto – AKA Paul Dopson,
whose work appears on our cover and in this
week’s Farnborough report – posted this
shot of a US Marines Corp MV-22 Osprey
tiltrotor in the run-up to the show. Open a
gallery in flightglobal.com’s AirSpace
community for a chance to feature here
COVER IMAGE
In a departure from its
usual policy, Boeing had an
aircraft in the flying display
at this year’s Farnborough
air show. Qatar Airways’
first 787 was snapped in
action by Paul Dopson of
APG Photography.
See Show Report
P8
US Navy plans to retrofit all Super Hornets with the
APG-79, down to Lot 26 production aircraft
P22
. Bombardier
plans to introduce RNP capability on Q400
P32
flightglobal.com/imageoftheweek
NEWS
28
United Aircraft to explore production of
long-haul jet
FEATURES
30
Media central
Flightglobal was behind
an array of media, events and other
initiatives at Farnborough. Our photo
feature explains what we were up to
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Talent shines
THIS WEEK
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Irkut has MS-21 all under control.
Indonesia to supply parts for Superjet
8
Boeing plays narrowbody catch-up
9
Seattle reveals more technical detail
offering range at expense of payload
32
Airbus to trial EasyJet ash detector
33
Predator C is pushed on performance.
ScanEagle soars high in Asia-Pacic as
nations see need for eye in sky
The Flightglobal
Achievement Awards recognised the
Aviator, Innovator and Leader of the Year
as well as Lifetime Achiever and Boeing
Engineering Student of the Year
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Skies alive
Despite the leaden skies,
the air display was – as ever – one of the
highlights of this year’s show. We have
four pages of the most spectacular
images from the skies over Farnborough
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Mitsubishi’s SkyWest MRJ win stuns
regional rivals
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No display, but A400M tests to resume
34
Chinese promise to preserve HBC aircraft
and jobs
35
Green taxis gathering momentum
36
14
Cathay gives AIrbus ‘big twin’ a big win
15
Boeing gears up to make 787-10X
launch decision
Eco-737 to gauge green technologies.
GKN aims to inspire next generation
16
Virgin Galactic launches its new space
satellite vehicle
37
Airbus les patent for ight recorders that
self-eject.
Cockpit offers gate-to-gate control
18
Osprey makes ying return as export
efforts increase
20
Airbus in damage-limitation mode on
A380 wing cracks
38
Eurocopter on course to lift prots.
ADASI and Piaggio join forces to develop MPA
21
Qatar to send 787 straight to service.
Weight gain leads to deal
39
AgustaWestland to develop all-new type
with Russians
22
Saab Gripen demonstrates radar role in
Swiss success
23
Typhoon gets capabilities injection
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REGULARS
7 Comment
48 Obituary
50 Classified
53 Jobs
59 Working Week
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JOB OF THE WEEK
Bigger Q400 remains a stretch goal.
New orders help ATR steal a march on
arch rival
NEXT WEEK
ENVIRONMENT
In a special on aviation’s efforts to turn
green, we explore all-electric aircraft,
challenges in developing alternative
fuels, and the airport capacity crunch
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Bombardier stands rm on CSeries
despite slow show
Operations manager,
Aurigny, Channel Islands
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Saab 2000 oated for martime role.
Embraer-Boeing pact to give LAS bid a lift
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CONTENTS
IN THIS ISSUE
Companies listed
Aernnova .....................................................25
AgustaWestland .....................................18, 39
AirBaltic .......................................................25
Airbus ....................7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 32, 37, 40
Air Lease......................................................14
Arctic Sunwest Charters ...............................34
ATR ........................................................24, 25
BAE Systems .........................................22, 26
Bell..................................................18, 39, 40
Boeing .....................7, 8, 9, 12,15, 18, 20, 22,
........................................... 26, 32, 36, 46, 59
Bombardier ................. 10, 24, 25, 28, 32, 46
Braathens Aviation .......................................25
British Airways ........................................10, 48
Cathay Pacic .......................................... 7, 14
CFM International .......................................... 9
Chengdu Airlines ..........................................10
CIT ...............................................................21
Comac ...................................................10, 29
DAC Aviation International............................34
Dassault Aviation .....................................7, 22
EADS Astrium...............................................16
EasyJet ..................................................32, 40
Elbit Systems ...............................................18
Embraer .................................................10, 26
Emirates Airline ......................................15, 21
Eurocopter .............................................38, 46
Euroghter ............................................... 7, 23
FLIR Systems ...............................................26
Flybe ...........................................................32
General Atomics...........................................33
General Electric .....................................15, 21
Geopics .......................................................16
GKN Aerospace ............................................36
Goodrich ......................................................33
Hawker Beechcraft .......................................34
IAG ..............................................................10
IAI ................................................................35
Iberia ...........................................................10
Ilyushin Finance...........................................25
Insitu ...........................................................33
Irkut .......................................................28, 29
Korean Air ....................................................25
LCI ...............................................................25
Liebherr Aerospace ......................................25
Lockheed Martin ..........................7, 22, 23, 33
Lufthansa ....................................................35
Malaysia Airlines ..........................................20
Mitsubishi Aircraft ..................................10, 28
Nicarnica Aviation ........................................32
Northrop Grumman................................22, 33
Piaggio ........................................................38
Pratt & Whitney ............. 10, 24, 26, 28, 32, 34
PrivatAir .......................................................25
Qatar Airways ...................................14, 20, 21
Raytheon .....................................................22
Republic Airways ..........................................25
Rockwell Collins ...........................................40
Rolls-Royce ............................................15, 21
Ruag ............................................................18
Russian Helicopters .....................................39
Ryanair ........................................................10
Saab .....................................................22, 26
Selex Galileo................................................26
Skybox Imaging ...........................................16
Skywest Airlines ...........................................10
Sky Relief ....................................................34
Sukhoi .........................................................29
Superior Aviation Beijing ..............................34
Surrey Satellite Technology...........................16
TAG Farnborough Airport...............................40
Thales ....................................................36, 37
United Aircraft ..............................................28
Viking Air......................................................34
Virgin .....................................................16, 48
BEHIND THE
HEADLINES
THE WEEK ON THE WEB
flightglobal.com
Flightglobal’s
Farnborough
cha-
let was
as a team from the
London, Washington DC and
Singapore ofces provided
abuzz
Exclusive videos packed the trio of
iFlight Daily News
editions produced at Farnborough, which were the biggest
and best yet of our innovative
multi-
magazines. Day
one’s issue, with the Malaysia Airlines
Airbus
interactive
media
coverage of the show for
an array of
: four issues of
Flight Daily News
and three
iFlight
Daily News
outlets
A380
as cover star, had Emirates
, in addi-
tion to rolling updates on
flightglobal.com
interactives
president
on camera, plus
high-res display highlights – captured by
two FLIR Systems cameras – and a
dynamic
Tim Clark
and the show
report for
print
and
iPad edi-
of Grob’s G120TP
trainer. Qatar Airways chief
cutaway
tions
of
Flight International
.
Reporters hared around the site
to prepare stories and
Akbar Al
Baker
spoke about his carrier’s new
blog
Boeing 787
in day two’s offering, which also carried an
under-the-skin
posts,
tweet
breaking news,
special on the airliner and a round-up on
combat aircraft that demonstrated at the show. And Richard
Branson’s lively
record
video
presentations and
interviews
, and add running
commentary to live-streamed dis-
play footage.
cameo appearance
led the third instal-
ment (
above
), supplemented by a
Virgin Galactic
graphic
feature, footage of
in action, and PwC analysis of
India’s potential as an aerospace market.
rotorcraft
Find all these items at
flightglobal.com/wotw
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Last week, we asked for your thoughts on:
Airbus opening A320
final assembly line in Alabama:
You said:
Shrewd:
take that, Boeing!
Makes political, but
not business, sense
Crazy
decision
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Total votes: 4,777
This week, we ask:
What was the top moment of Farnborough
2012?
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Boeing returning to air display with 787
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Malaysia
Airlines’ A380 flying
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Richard Branson and SpaceShipTwo
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MV-22 Osprey performance
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Farnborough:
Exclusive air-to-air footage of Qatar’s 787 Dreamliner
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Delta to introduce Boeing 717 in 2013
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AF447 crash inquiry seeks to explain pilot’s nose-up input
4
Farnborough:
Cathay rst to order revamped A350-1000
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Open rotor noise not a barrier to entry – GE
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