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TURKEY ON TOP
AIMING TO BE AT
CENTRE OF THE
AVIATION WORLD
COUNTRY SPECIAL
A LEAP AHEAD
CFM remains condent it
can overpower P&W in
A321neo engine tussle,
despite rival’s surge
SPRITE FUTURE
New Zealand to give new
lease of life to Seasprite
helicopters returned to
Kaman by Australia
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VOLUME 183
NUMBER 5388
30 APRIL-6 MAY 2013
TURKEY ON TOP
AIMING TO BE AT
CENTRE OF THE
AVIATION WORLD
COUNTRY SPECIAL
A LEAP AHEAD
CFM remains condent it
can overpower P&W in
A321neo engine tussle,
despite rival’s surge
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SPRITE FUTURE
New Zealand to give new
lease of life to Seasprite
helicopters returned to
Kaman by Australia
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PIC OF THE WEEK
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787 RETURN
BOEING BACK
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COVER IMAGE
Boeing’s 787 is pictured in
close up at the 2011 Paris
air show, long before the
latest battery problems
emerged that have
grounded the Dreamliner
fleet for about 100 days.
See Cover Story
P6
Can the Hybrid RotorWing crack the VTOL X-Plane
challenge?
P21
. Navy official reveals China’s aircraft
carrier ambitions
P16
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NEWS
COVER STORY
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Diamond polishes DA52 and proposes
July maiden sortie.
Latest Cessna singles make debut in
Europe
Boeing hopes x will restore 787’s
tarnished image
THIS WEEK
8
Vertical lift could ease airport jams
9
CFM’s International’s Leap still in ght
for A321neo crown
FEATURES
26
BUSINESS AVIATION
20
Cessna takes longer view over Latitude’s
prospects.
Falcon 2000 pair gain US certication
TURKEY SPECIAL REPORT
10
BA A350 pledge signals the end for
jumbo eet
28
Freedom to flourish
Airlines on the up
30
Taking on the world
TAI prole
AIR TRANSPORT
33
A charter for success
Private aviation
TECHNOLOGY
11
CFM plots course over Leap’s hurdles
34
Mendng bridges
Israeli relations
21
For StopRotor, change is in transition
12
Approval nears for modernised Tu-204.
Mystery surrounds Air Cargo Germany
grounding
38
REGIONAL JETS
Ending of an era for
MRO AMERICAS SHOW REPORT
50-seat CRJ
Larger regional jets move in
22
Perfect storm ushers new jets into early
retirement
42
Geared up for a fight
Embraer’s E-Jet
13
Uncorrected error led to Luxair lapse.
PTDI nets $32m to fund assembly of
prototypes
awaits service entry
23
Steady returns back JetBlue approach
BUSINESS
DEFENCE
24
Back to reality for PTDI
14
New Zealand buys stored Seasprites.
Quick change BAe 146s head for
Afghanistan
REGULARS
5 Comment
45 Straight & Level
46 Letters
48 Classified
51 Jobs
55 Working Week
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JOB OF THE WEEK
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USAF evades cuts as future bomber
remains on target.
Pakistan navy issues tender for combi
ATR 72-500
NEXT WEEK
TYPHOON
With the UK Royal Air Force having sent
its Euroghter Typhoons to a “Red Flag”
combat exercise for the rst time, we
report on the type’s multi-role evolution
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Netherlands gets F-35 price promise
AERO FRIEDRICHSHAFEN SHOW
REPORT
Global Supply Systems,
chief training captain, Stansted Airport
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Cirrus stays course on SF50
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CONTENTS
IN THIS ISSUE
Companies listed
AeroCentury .................................................25
AgustaWestland ............................................. 8
Airbus ................................8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 24
Airbus Military..............................................24
Air Cargo Germany .......................................12
ATR ..............................................................15
Aurora Flight Sciences..................................25
Aviastar .......................................................12
BAE Systems ...............................................14
Beechcraft .......................................16, 19, 20
Bell Helicopter .......................................14, 24
BizJet International ......................................20
Boeing .........................6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 23, 24
Bombardier .................................................20
British Airways ..............................................10
CAE .............................................................20
CAIGA ..........................................................18
Cessna ..................................................19, 20
CFM International ....................................9, 11
China Aviation Supplies ................................. 8
Cirrus ...........................................................18
CIT Transportation ........................................22
Cobham.......................................................25
Comac .........................................................11
Dassault ................................................16, 20
Delta Air Lines ..............................................22
Diamond Aircraft ..........................................19
Embraer .......................................................13
Eurocopter ............................................... 8, 24
Garmin ............................................18, 19, 20
GECAS .........................................................25
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems ........15
General Electric ...........................................11
GKN Aerospace ............................................25
Gulfstream ...................................................20
Hawaiian Airlines ........................................... 9
Iberia ...........................................................10
Ilyushin Finance...........................................12
International Aero Engines ............................. 9
Israel Aerospace Industries ............................ 8
JetBlue ........................................................23
Kaman Aerospace........................................14
Kongsberg ...................................................14
Korea Aerospace Industries. .........................24
Landmark Aviation .......................................25
Lockheed Martin ................................8, 15, 16
Lufthansa Technik ........................................20
Luxair ...........................................................13
Merpati Nusantara .......................................13
Nexa Capital Partners ..................................23
NH Industries ................................................. 8
Northrop Grumman......................................15
Nusantara Buana Air ....................................13
Pacic-China Aero Technology ......................20
Piper Aircraft ................................................19
PowerJet ......................................................12
Pratt & Whitney ......................9, 11, 16, 19, 20
PT Dirgantara Indonesia .........................13, 24
Qatar Airways .........................................13, 25
Rockwell Collins ...........................................25
Rolls-Royce .................................................... 8
Saab ...........................................................16
Shenyang Aircraft .........................................16
Signature Flight Support ..............................25
Sikorsky .......................................................21
Snecma .......................................................11
Southwest Airlines........................................23
StopRotor Technology ..................................21
Sukhoi .........................................................12
Tecnam ........................................................18
Transaero .....................................................12
Tupolev ........................................................12
Turbomeca ..................................................... 8
United Aircraft ..............................................12
Williams International ..................................18
BEHIND THE
HEADLINES
THE WEEK ON THE WEB
flightglobal.com
Our business and general avia-
tion editor
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ew to Friedrichshafen, Germany,
home of Europe’s main GA gath-
ering. “Despite the
Kate Sarsfield
(
below
Craig Hoyle
tagged along with test pilot Peter Gray to
AgustaWestland’s UK factory in Yeovil, where Gray became the
rst civilian to y the
Anglo-Italian firm’s AW159
helicopter.
On The DEW Line
blog, Hoyle has a
picture of the test
ight aircraft –
air of gloom
which has descended over the
sector in recent years, it never
ceases to
me how varied,
innovative and enterprising
Europe’s GA industry is,” she
says. “The big
amaze
Brit-
ish Army Wildcat
ZZ398
such as
Cessna and Diamond are there,
of course, but most of the com-
panies
players
– and
provides a taster of
what you will be
are small –
some of them little more than
family
involved
able to read in our
issue, as well as in our FG Club on
ightglobal.com (you can register for free, if you haven’t
already). On
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concerns – and much of
the technology on display is im-
pressive.” Read her two-page
show report
, David Todd records the launch of
Mars One’s appeal for would-be colonists to settle on the
Hyperbola
Red
on P18.
Planet
(he is noticably reticent on whether he will be applying
himself). On
, Israeli correspondent Arie Egozi
notes how his country has its sights trained on Syria in an
“unprecedented monitoring effort” to check whether the
regime is about to use its
Ariel View
possible stockpile of chemical
weapons
on its own people.
Find all these items at
flightglobal.com/wotw
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Last week, we asked:
What’s the biggest reason so few
youngsters take up flying?
You said:
Too expensive
No nearby
airfields
Too much
red-tape
No careers
at end
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This week, we ask:
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HIGH FLIERS
The top five stories for the week just gone:
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BA A350 pact seals 747-400 retirement plan
2
IAG to order 18 A350s for BA
3
NTSB hearing on 787 batteries reveals Boeing shift on testing
4
FAA clears 787s to re-enter service within a week
5
Boeing starts modications on ANA and JAL 787s
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 COMMENT
Taming the dragon
Boeing has been cleared to bring the 787 back into service, but questions remain over lithium-
ion batteries. This imperfect solution is a long way from restoring trust in the technology
E
ven as Boeing scrambles its technical squads to
begin the modification work on the grounded 787
fleet, there is an inescapable sense of unfinished busi-
ness with the battery fire investigation.
Because the airframer cannot yet be certain that it’s
tamed the lithium dragon that crippled two Japanese
787s in January. Its response – a containment system to
prevent collateral damage – is functional rather than
elegant: effectively a big stick with which to beat the
dragon unconscious if it gets out of hand.
But it’s really the only option for the time being. Boe-
ing has conceded that it might never fully understand
the failures that led to the grounding, which leaves the
company in an uneasy limbo.
The situation is not unprecedented. Investigators
probing the explosion that destroyed a TWA 747 over
the Atlantic in 1986 concluded that the source of igni-
tion “could not be determined with certainty”. Their
best guess – excessive voltage arising from a short cir-
cuit – drove the effort to inert fuel tanks and contain the
wild and transient nature of wayward electricity.
Unfinished business
the jet age, dates back to the de Havilland Comet.
While Boeing’s intense round-the-clock effort to con-
struct fault trees, examine the battery’s functioning and
test for potential flaws is commendable, it also leaves
the company exposed to the obvious question as to
why it hadn’t done all that before.
Fear of fire is hard-wired into the human mind.
Given the well-documented hazards associated with
lithium-ion batteries, and the images of smoke pouring
from the hold of the Japan Airlines 787 at Boston, Boe-
ing’s reputation might have fared better if it had dem-
onstrated a little more humility – perhaps even left
open the option of reverting to nickel-cadmium.
By enabling the 787 to return to flight relatively
quickly, the containment system – with its weight pen-
alty – is less of a best solution than the least unpalatable
one. Even if the revamped battery demonstrates itself to
be docile, don’t expect any quick restoration of trust in
lithium-ion technology until a few more of those un-
knowns are no longer unknown.
O
Boeing has conceded that it
might never understand the
failures behind the grounding
Neither of the 787 incidents was on the same scale,
of course, which is to Boeing’s credit. But the whole
saga highlights the dilemma of technological advance-
ment, and the possibility that the extent of knowledge
– even that as deep as Boeing’s – can sometimes unex-
pectedly fall short. The need to hunt for the “unknown
unknowns” affecting a new aircraft is a lesson that, in
See Cover Story P6
Who would bet against Turkey?
T
urkish Airlines’ grandiose plans to become the
planet’s biggest airline are being matched by equally
ostentatious government ambitions to build the world’s
biggest hub airport in Istanbul, both in a manner that
threatens to outpace rivals in the Arabian Gulf.
So just how realistic is Istanbul’s bid to become avia-
tion’s next Dubai – or something even bigger? A larger
home market, full of young, aspiring travellers getting
more affluent is one significant advantage, and a geo-
graphical location allowing short-haul flights to desti-
nations in Europe and parts of Africa to which Emirates
must fly widebodies is another.
The 150 million passenger, $10 billion, six runway
airport project should help Turkish Airlines reach its
target of operating 2,000 flights per day while boosting
the country’s other emerging carriers, which cannot
currently expand in slot-constrained Ataturk.
Yet assuming the new airport goes to plan, and given
the scale of the task that’s a very big assumption, will
Turkey’s airlines be able to hold on to the reins while
growing at such speed? Of course they say they can, but
building scale efficiently and not letting costs run out
of control will be a huge challenge.
Any number of imponderables may play a hand in
shaping Istanbul’s destiny, but given everything Turkey
has achieved so far and where it was 10 years ago, who
would bet against the country pulling it off again?
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To read an interview with
Turkish Airlines chief executive
Temel Kotil by our sister
magazine
Airline Business
,
go to
flightglobal.com/kotil
See Turkey Country Special P26
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