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AUSTRALIANS IN
TWO MINDS OVER
FUTURE FIGHTERS
AVALON PREVIEW
747-8 SLOTS ALERT
Boeing says it could be
forced to slow production
of revamped jumbo if new
orders fail to emerge
FREE AND SINGLE
Ironically, failure of BAE
merger has helped give
EADS what it sought –
less state interference
PIC OF THE WEEK
YOUR PHOTOGRAPH HERE
Keith Campbell gave this Panavia Tornado
shot the title “Evening playtime” when he
added it to his “sunshine band” AirSpace
gallery. Our latest World Air Forces directory
lists 119 Tornados in the UK’s fleet. Open a
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was delivered for Airbus’s
flight-test A350. Our cover
story, a programme update,
leads an engines package
that also focuses on CFM
International’s Leap.
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Eurocopter to invest $100 million in aerostructures facility
in Mexico
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. US services issue new budget cuts
warning
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All eyes on
XWB
Rolls-Royce turns its attention to
proving the maturity of the A350’s Trent
XWB powerplant
Skimmer conversion kit offered
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UK reviews decision to retire Sentinel.
United Aircraft chief urges full Medium
Transport Aircraft contract
THIS WEEK
8
Split loyalties for new airline giant
9
A330-200 eyed as Beluga successor.
USAF refuses to reopen ‘awed’ Raptor
inquiry
BUSINESS AVIATION
19
MEBAA offers to referee Rizon row.
Chinese business jet eet grew 40%
in 2012
20
Airbus Corporate Jets pins hopes on
market rebound.
Europe opens way to G280 deliveries
FEATURES
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Turmoil as arrests rock Finmeccanica.
Regulator searches for UAV integration
test sites
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Booming sales prompt Mexico move.
Airframers to ght soft market with new
launches
We analyse how the aerospace
market is being reshaped in our country
special
TECHNOLOGY
AIR TRANSPORT
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Rotor blade pressure may hold key to
dynamic stall.
Warning – weightlessness can ruin your
eyesight
12
Rolls-Royce focus turns to A350-1000
powerplant
13
Empty slots could slow 747-8 output.
Longer-range Superjet is airborne
BUSINESS
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Crashed An-28 denied terrain warning.
Aeroot technical snags prompt Superjet
defence
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Fruits of freedom for EADS
REGULARS
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JOB OF THE WEEK
Air trafc controller,
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Jat aims to revive latent Airbus deal
DEFENCE
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SOCOM places urgent Insitu UAV order
to ll critical gap.
New Zealand’s NH90s clear testing
milestone
NEXT WEEK
HELICOPTERS SPECIAL
Test pilot Peter Gray (
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over Sikorsky’s S-92 in an exclusive ight
evaluation. Plus: reports on the Bell 525,
safety, aerial lming and the war on rats
above
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CONTENTS
IN THIS ISSUE
Companies listed
Aeroot .......................................................... 8
AgustaWestland ...........................................10
Airbus ..........................8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 20, 22
Air Lease......................................................12
Air Tractor .....................................................11
American Airlines ........................................... 8
Antonov ................................................... 8, 14
Astrium ........................................................22
ATR ..............................................................15
Australian Helicopters ..................................19
Aviadvigatel .................................................18
Avincis Group ..............................................19
BAE Systems ...............................................22
Ball Aerospace.............................................23
Boeing .........................................8, 12, 15, 21
Bombardier ...........................................18, 19
Bond Helicopters .........................................19
Cassidian ....................................................22
Cathay Pacic ..............................................25
Cessna ........................................................19
CFM International ..................................18, 28
Comac .........................................................28
Dassault ......................................................11
DLR .............................................................21
EADS ...........................................................22
Elbit Systems ................................................. 8
Engine Alliance ............................................23
Eurocopter .......................................11, 20, 22
Europe Airpost .............................................15
Finmeccanica ........................................10, 22
GE Aviation ..................................................23
Gulfstream.......................................11, 19, 20
Hindustan Aeronautics ...........................16, 18
Ilyushin .................................................... 8, 18
Inaer ............................................................19
Insitu ...........................................................16
Interjet .........................................................14
Irkut .............................................................18
Israel Aerospace Industries ....................17, 20
Jat Airways ...................................................15
Jat Tehnika ...................................................15
Jet2 .............................................................15
Kongsberg ...................................................23
Lockheed Martin ...................................... 9, 17
Messier-Bugatti-Dowty .................................14
Milestone Aviation .......................................... 19
NH Industries.................................................. 16
Norsk Helikopterservice..................................19
Northrop Grumman ..................................16, 18
Petropavlovk-Kamchatsky Aviation Enterprise .14
Pilatus ...................................................16, 18
Pratt & Whitney ............................................23
Qatar Airways ...............................................19
Raytheon .....................................................18
RBC Bearings...............................................23
Recaro .........................................................23
Rizon Jet ......................................................19
Rolls-Royce ..................................................12
Saab ...........................................................23
Safran .........................................................22
Signature Flight Support ..............................20
Snecma .......................................................28
South Airlines ................................................ 8
Spirit AeroSystems .......................................13
Sukhoi .........................................................13
Thales ..........................................................22
Thrush Aircraft ..............................................11
Transaero ................................................. 8, 15
Sikorsky .......................................................19
Sukhoi .........................................................14
Superjet International ..................................14
United Aircraft ..............................................18
US Airways ..................................................... 8
UTair .............................................................. 8
Zenith Jet .....................................................11
BEHIND THE
HEADLINES
THE WEEK ON THE WEB
flightglobal.com
Washington DC-based Americas
air transport reporter Edward
Russell travelled to
On defence blog The DEW Line, Dave Majumdar highlighted
an “
to report on the proposed merg-
er between
Fort Worth
from the cockpit of a VFA-103 Boeing
F/A-18F Super Hornet ying off the deck of USS
awesome video
Dwight D
American Airlines
Eisenhower
”. The footage was
produced by Carrier Strike
Group 8 last year. “But if the
dire predictions of what might
happen under
and US Airways (
). In January,
Russell had covered the former
carrier’s inaugural Boeing
777-300ER ight from Fort
Worth to São Paulo Guarulhos
– and had his photograph taken
with chief executive
P8
sequestration
come to fruition, we may not
see many more videos like
this in the near future,” warned Majumdar. Pay a visit to
ightglobal.com/superhornetvideo to enjoy it while it lasts.
Elswhere on the same blog, a stunning Euroghter shot of a
Typhoon
Tom Horton
(
below, right
). And our business
editor
crossed
the Atlantic from our UK head-
quarters to Queretaro, for the
opening of a
Dan Thisdell
) ran with a
post on the combat aircraft type’s competitive joust with the
Lockheed Martin
over
Ferrari World
in Abu Dhabi (
above
factory
in the Mexican aerospace
hotspot (
Eurocopter
P11
).
, Arie Egozi noted
that Israel Aerospace Industries chief Joseph Weiss had
chosen his words carefully at
F-35
. And on
Ariel View
, where he said, “I
urge my colleagues in the Israeli industries to make every
effort
Aero India
to promote co-operation.”
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