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uplift ahead of
industry show?
special report
defending ideas
Oficial warns R&D vital to
keeping USA’s innovation
edge against threat from
Russia and China
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after columbus
Five years on, Cessna
considers returning to
large-cabin market as
core sectors struggle
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heli-expo
who’s gaining
uplift ahead of
industry show?
special report
defending ideas
Oficial warns R&D vital to
keeping USA’s innovation
edge against threat from
Russia and China
32
after columbus
Five years on, Cessna
considers returning to
large-cabin market as
core sectors struggle
33
PiC oF the WeeK
yoUr PhotogrAPh here
This picture, posted by the USAF, shows
an airman defrosting a Lockheed Martin
C-130J Super Hercules at Bagram Airield,
Afghanistan. A de-icer truck uses red luid
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Big two trade blows on twin-aisle strategy
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Cover iMAge
The cover shows an Airbus
A350-900 making its air
show debut at last week’s
Singapore air show. Picture
by BillyPix. See show
report
P16
Bell working closely with partner Boeing to inalise export
sales campaigns for its V-22 Osprey
P22
. A US Air Force
C-17 Globemaster at the Singapore air show
P24
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news
cover sTory
16 Boeing and Airbus clash over
widebody strategy As Toulouse lauds
the simplicity of its approach to the
200-400 seat sector, Seattle points to its
products’ sales success
Air TrAnsporT
30 Windshear led to Fokker 100 hard landing.
Evacuation of Virgin A330 highlights poor
procedure.
Mubadala outlines engines of growth
31 ILFC and Libyan Airlines join A350 buyers
upsizing to -900.
Lufthansa brings forward 747-8 delivery
schedule
This week
8
Algerian Hercules crashes, killing 77
9
Big two clash over widebody strategy.
Qatar delays A380 delivery to avoid
Doha overload
10
Voyager drama halts light operations.
USAF unlikely to escape budget cuts
12
Certiication clears AW189 for launch.
Boeing rejigs 787 deal with Alenia
Aermacchi
15 ESA launches next stage of Ariane 6
feATures
36
CiviL heLiCoPterS
Lift, thrust and
power plays With the rotorcraft industry
preparing to gather for Heli-Expo 2014 in
Anaheim, California, all four major
Western manufacturers hope to exploit
newfound momentum with revitalised
product ranges
Defence
32 Research or regress, US Department of
Defense oficial warns
business AviATion
33 Struggling Cessna looks at return to
large-cabin sector.
Pilatus enhances PC-12 NG to boost sales
singApore speciAl reporT
16
Rivals vie for F-16 upgrades
17
Engines key to 757 successor studies
18
Promising data as GTF and Leap get a
reality check
20
Saab sure on 340’s maritime pedigree.
21
New name spurs search for A400M,
A330 export deals.
Twelfth and inal M-346 delivery for
Singapore
22 Bell tees up export deals for Osprey
23 Third CSeries will ly ‘within weeks’.
C919 nears inal assembly
24 A splash of colour: Singapore photo spread
29 IAI reveals heavy fuel Super Heron.
Seoul close to $1.2bn Global Hawk deal
news focus
35
No sea change in core values and safety
focus at Bristow Group
regulArs
7 Comment
51 Straight & Level
53 Letters
56 Classiied
59 Jobs
63 Working Week
next WeeK
CoMMerCiAL engineS
While modern design technologies beat
the open rotor noise problem, Rolls-
Royce likes the look of composites and
MTU sees its future in the PW1000G
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conTenTs
in this issue
Companies listed
ADAT ............................................................30
AerCap .......................................................... 8
AeroVironment ............................................... 8
AgustaWestland .................................7, 12, 35
AIG ................................................................ 8
Airborne Technologies ..................................20
Airbus ....................................................16, 31
Airbus Defence & Space ..............................15
Airbus Helicopters ....................................7, 35
Air Costa ......................................................16
Alenia Aermacchi ...................................12, 21
Amedeo .......................................................16
Aspen Avionics.............................................33
AgustaWestland ...........................................12
ATR ..............................................................16
Beechcraft ...................................................33
Bel Air ..........................................................40
Bell Helicopter ......................................... 7, 22
BOC Aviation ................................................16
Boeing ...................7, 8, 12, 16, 21, 31, 32, 33
Bond Offshore Helicopters ...........................35
Bombardier .......................................8, 12, 23
Bristow Group ..............................................35
CEPA ............................................................63
Cessna ........................................................33
CFM International ........................................17
CHC Helicopter ............................................35
Comac .........................................................23
Cougar Helicopters ......................................35
Eastern Airways ............................................35
Elbit Systems ...............................................29
Embaer ........................................................16
Era Group ....................................................40
European Space Agency ..............................15
Experia Events .............................................16
Finmeccanica ..............................................12
Fokker..........................................................30
Garmin ........................................................33
General Electric ...........................................17
Gulf Helicopters ...........................................40
Honeywell ....................................................33
Israel Aerospace Industries ..........................29
ILFC ......................................................... 8, 31
Jeppesen .....................................................33
LCI ...............................................................35
Libyan Airlines ..............................................31
Líder Aviação ...............................................35
Lockheed Martin ......................................8, 16
Lufthansa ....................................................31
Met Ofice ....................................................57
Milestone Aviation........................................35
Mitsubishi ....................................................23
Mubadala ....................................................30
NASA ...........................................................15
NHS .............................................................35
Northrop Grumman ......................................16
Parkwater Aviation .......................................33
Pilatus .........................................................33
Pratt & Whitney ......................................16, 33
Qantas ........................................................... 8
Quest Aircraft ...............................................33
Raytheon .....................................................32
Rockwell Collins ...........................................33
Rolls-Royce .................................................... 8
Saab ...........................................................20
Sikorsky ................................................... 7, 35
Skyworld Aviation .........................................56
SpaceX ........................................................15
Spokane Turbine Centre ...............................33
SR Technics..................................................30
Tim Leacock.................................................56
Turkish Aerospace Industries ................ 7, 8, 49
Urban Aeronautics ...................................7, 49
Virgin Atlantic ..............................................30
Williams International ..................................33
behind The
headlines
The week on The web
lightglobal.com
Flightglobal’s singapore bureau
team of Greg Waldron, Mavis
Toh, Ellis Taylor, and Firdaus
Hashim were joined by other
staff members from London and
Washington Dc at the city
state’s biennial air show, where
they produced a show report
(P16), print and interactive
dailies, coverage for our
Singapore landing page and doz-
ens of stories for our premium
news service on the Flightglobal
dashboard. Meanwhile,
Washington DC-based reporter
Jon Hemmerdinger travelled up
the East Coast to New York to
cover a cowen Group defence
conference (P32).
On his ariel view blog, arie Egozi says linking simulators
to a network could be a “winning combination when it comes
to preparing air forces for warfare”. He uses the Israeli air
force’s new rangeless
helicopter training and
safety system (HTS) to
illustrate his point. During a
ground-based demonstration
late last year, HTS replicated
the iring of helicopter-mount-
ed weapons towards moving
targets. The action was monitored in real time from a control
building. “The system is designed to allow advanced joint
forces training by utilising network interoperability with the
Air Combat Manoeuvring Instrumentation system and
combat training centres,” he says. david learmount asks
whether norwegian air shuttle’s decision to set up a
transatlantic operation with its registration and corporate
headquarters in Ireland, will have any safety implications.
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QuesTion of The week
Last week, we asked: 747-8? You said:
Production will end
within 18 months
Will struggle on for a
few more years
The best is yet
to come
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Total votes: 5,453
This week, we ask: Will Boeing launch a clean-sheet successor
to the 757? ❑ Yes, in the next two years ❑ Yes, but not until
2016 or later ❑ No – too small a potential market
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