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FIRST BUILD IT...
WHY BELL IS NOT
TAKING ORDERS
FOR RELENTLESS
HELICOPTERS P26
REIGN ON KING AIR
Twin turboprop rules as
Beechcraft emerges from
bankruptcy, minus Hawker
brand and $2bn debt
ATLAS AT LAST
France gets ready to
debut A400M – but
transport’s engines will
power out in 2015
20
18
FLIGHT
INTERNATIONAL
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FLIGHT TEST
MULTI-MISSION
ACCOMPLISHED
Thirteen years and 200 deliveries later, we return
to cockpit of Sikorsky’s S-92 all-round performer
£3.30
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26 FEBRUARY-4 MARCH 2013
FIRST BUILD IT...
WHY BELL IS NOT
TAKING ORDERS
FOR RELENTLESS
HELICOPTERS P26
REIGN ON KING AIR
Twin turboprop rules as
Beechcraft emerges from
bankruptcy, minus Hawker
brand and $2bn debt
20
ATLAS AT LAST
France gets ready to
debut A400M – but
transport’s engines will
power out in 2015
18
PIC OF THE WEEK
YOUR PHOTOGRAPH HERE
Frank Gollner posted this shot of an Arik Air
Airbus A340-500 landing on Heathrow’s
runway 27R. Flightglobal’s Ascend Online
database lists two A340s in the Nigerian
carrier’s 23-strong active fleet. Open a
gallery in Flightglobal.com’s AirSpace
community for a chance to feature here
FLIGHT
INTERNATIONAL
26 FEBRUARY-4 MARCH 2013
FLIGHT TEST
MULTI-MISSION
ACCOMPLISHED
Thirteen years and 200 deliveries later, we return
to cockpit of Sikorsky’s S-92 all-round performer
£3.30
COVER IMAGE
Sikorsky’s S-92 was
evaluated for us by
experienced test pilot
Peter Gray – who had, in
2000, flown a prototype of
the multimission helicop-
ter, of which deliveries are
now nearing the 200 mark.
See Cover Story
P28
Beechcraft emerges from bankruptcy minus its business
jet brand
P20
. Swedish air force to be first customer for
new-generation Gripen E fighters
P8
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NEWS
COVER STORY
26
HELICOPTERS SPECIAL REPORT
28
Sikorsky stalwart
Test pilot Peter Gray
puts the S-92 through its paces
34
Relentless progress
Bell follows new
philosophy for 525 super-medium twin
BUSINESS AVIATION
20
Hawker is dead – long live the King Air
for Beechcraft
THIS WEEK
8
Upgraded Gripen nets 60-unit deal
21
Business jet deliveries fall by a half since
2007 peak.
Phase two for Aerion supersonic tests
9
Leahy skewers Boeing over batteries.
Dawdling CSeries gets engine and
order boost
38
Catching the Mexican wave
Eurocopter plants its ag in Querétaro
GENERAL AVIATION
22
Training rm sets sights on Asian civil
helicopter growth.
UAE branch eyes AOPA reunion at Abu
Dhabi Expo
10
India defends its reputation
11
CAA cool on early return for EC225
40
Failing to take the medicine
Better
safety requires change in attitudes
AIR TRANSPORT
12
737 stalled as crew fought windshear
13
44
Sure shots
Technological advances
bring new possibilities in aerial lming
Pilots could have stopped Tu-204 before
overrun.
Sukhoi studies winglets as option for
Superjets
SPACEFLIGHT
46
Rat attack
Rotorcraft take on rodents
on a remote South Atlantic Island
23
Engine fault halts Antares hot-re test.
Probe into misring Proton turns on
bearing fault
14
Automated modes on Thai 777 took
pilot by surprise
BUSINESS
24
Fire sale in the arms bazaar
15
Crew missed shortened-runway cues
DEFENCE
REGULARS
7 Comment
49 Straight & Level
50 Letters
52 Classified
55 Jobs
59 Working Week
56
JOB OF THE WEEK
16
Piaggio pushes unmanned Avanti.
RAF readies ex-commercial BAe 146s to
plug airlift shortfall in Afghanistan
17
Black Hornet nano-UAS has big impact
for British Army.
Training crisis prompts calls for Tu-134
reprieve
NEXT WEEK
GO-AROUNDS
Mishandling of the technique all too
often leads to catastrophe. Safety editor
David Learmount analyses this problem,
and the industry’s attempts to address it
18
Atlas nears ight debut, with TP400
switch to follow
Air trafc controller,
Alderney Airport
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               CONTENTS
IN THIS ISSUE
Companies listed
Aerion ..........................................................21
Aero Vodochody ...........................................33
AgustaWestland .....................................10, 11
Airbus ...................................................... 9, 15
Airbus Military..................................10, 18, 19
Airline Transport Professionals ......................22
All Nippon Airways ......................................... 9
Antonov .................................................13, 17
Aviation Alliance ..........................................25
Beechcraft ...................................................20
Bell Helicopter .............................................21
Boeing .........................................9, 12, 14, 25
Bombardier .................................8, 14, 20, 24
Bond Helicopters ...................................11, 22
Bristow Helicopters ......................................11
CAE .............................................................22
Cessna ..................................................21, 22
CHC Helicopter ............................................11
Daher-Socata ..............................................21
Dassault ......................................................10
EasyJet ........................................................15
Embraer .......................................................20
Engineered Propulsion Systems ...................22
Estonian Air .................................................24
Eurocopter .............................................11, 22
Europrop International .................................18
FairJets ........................................................20
Finmeccanica ..............................................10
Flying Colours ..............................................20
Fokker Services........................................ 8, 24
Garmin ..................................................21, 22
General Electric ...........................................33
Gulfstream ...................................................25
Hartzell Propeller..........................................22
Hawker Pacic .............................................25
Helinet Aviation ............................................44
Helvetic Airways ............................................. 8
Hindustan Aeronautics ...........................10, 22
Honeywell ....................................................20
Hybrid Air Vehicles ........................................16
Ilyushin Finance............................................. 9
International Launch Services ......................23
Japan Airlines ................................................ 9
Lockheed Martin ............................................ 8
MTU Aero Engines ........................................25
Mubadala Aerospace ..................................... 8
Northrop Grumman......................................16
Orbital Sciences.....................................23, 25
PHI ..............................................................35
Piaggio Aero.................................................16
Pratt & Whitney .............................................. 9
Prox Dynamics .............................................17
Red Wings ...................................................13
Russian Helicopters .....................................22
Saab ....................................................... 8, 25
Safran ........................................................... 8
Saft ............................................................... 9
SAS Group...................................................25
Selex ES ......................................................16
Sikorsky ................................................... 8, 11
SpaceX ........................................................23
ST Aerospace ...............................................25
Sukhoi .........................................................13
Swiss International Air Lines........................... 8
Thales ..........................................................19
TNT Airways ..................................................16
Thai Airways International .............................14
Tupolev ..................................................13, 17
Turbomeca ...................................................33
United Aircraft ..............................................13
UTair ............................................................20
VASO ...........................................................13
Virgin Atlantic...............................................25
BEHIND THE
HEADLINES
THE WEEK ON THE WEB
flightglobal.com
Test pilot
) and
Americas managing editor
Stephen Trimble
Peter Gray
(
top
Our Image of the Day blog carried a Dutch ministry of
defence shot of a Boeing CH-74
went to
). On The
DEW Line, Craig Hoyle wrote about UK prime minister David
Cameron’s
Chinook
(
below
Coatesville,
to,
respectively, evaluate Sikorksy’s
S-92
Pennsylvania
of
India, which included a fresh
attempt to derail Dassault’s
apparent
trade tour
helicopter and gather up
programme news (
P28
). Defence
editor
was in Seville,
Spain for an Airbus Military
A400M
Craig Hoyle
in the
nation’s medium multi-role
combat aircraft (
victory
brieng (
P18
).
)
contest: “The timing really
couldn’t have been any worse,
with Cameron having arrived on the sub-continent just days
after
MMRCA
chief executive Giuseppe Orsi was
arrested as part of an investigation linked to the sale of 12
AgustaWestland AW101 helicopters. While that’s an ongoing
legal matter for the Italian and Indian
Finmeccanica
authorities
, the fact
that the VVIP
are being built at the company’s
Yeovil site in the UK will not have been lost on
transports
critics
. That’s
likely to mean more bad news re MMRCA, I suspect.”
Find all these items at
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Last week, we asked for your take on the
American Airlines and
US Airways merger.
You said:
Obvious synergies
Culture clash ahead
27
Won’t fix US
sector’s problems
31
42
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Picture:
Winglets tted to rst ying A350
2
American and US Airways livery to be decided
3
Airbus to ditch lithium-ion batteries on A350
4
Lufthansa opens tender for 100 narrowbodies, eight widebodies
5
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