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QUESTION OF GUILT
INVESTIGATION OF
ACCIDENTS AND A
NEED FOR JUSTICE
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F-4F PHAREWELL
With a special livery,
Germany retires its last
Phantom IIs after four
decades of service
BETTING ON CMC
How ceramic matrix
composites have come
of age on GE9X engine
for Boeing 777X
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FLIGHT
INTERNATIONAL
VOLUME 183
NUMBER 5397
2-8 JULY 2013
QUESTION OF GUILT
INVESTIGATION OF
ACCIDENTS AND A
NEED FOR JUSTICE
FEATURE P28
F-4F PHAREWELL
With a special livery,
Germany retires its last
Phantom IIs after four
decades of service
BETTING ON CMC
How ceramic matrix
composites have come
of age on GE9X engine
for Boeing 777X
PIC OF THE WEEK
YOUR PHOTOGRAPH HERE
Zhukovsky’s atmospheric picture shows
condensation forming over the wings of a
Sukhoi Su-35 during its flying display in the
saturated air above Le Bourget. Open a
gallery in flightglobal.com’s AirSpace
community for a chance to feature here
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2-8 JULY 2013
CSERIES
COMING OUT
FIGHTING
Bullish Bombardier ready
to battle rivals on two fronts
INTERNAT IONAL
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COVER IMAGE
Bombardier supplied this
stunning image of the first
Bombardier CS100 test
aircraft to roll out of the
final assembly plant at
Mirabel, Canada, ahead of
flight testing
P8
Conviasa claims safety improvements as it looks to take
A330s
P10
. Luftwaffe silences final interceptors during
decommissioning event at Wittmund air base
P15
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NEWS
COVER STORY
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Marines advance F-35B operating concept
studies.
Saab poised to conclude Skeldar UAS sale
After delay of rst ight,
big promises
must become a reality for CSeries
THIS WEEK
6
SAS picks Airbus for long-haul eet
TECHNOLOGY
7
Plea to tighten engine failure regime.
Orbital Science launches RD-180
anti-trust lawsuit
FEATURES
22
17
Insect-size ying robots to put sting into
surveillance
GE9X TURBOFAN
Betting big on
composites
GE’s technology shines
BUSINESS AVIATION
AIR TRANSPORT
24
BOEING 737 MAX
In it for the long haul
18
Bombardier predicts boom time for
business aircraft.
GKN Aerospace on the case with Citation
Longitude deal
10
Blacklisted Conviasa seeks reprieve for
long-haul push.
Older A320s no longer in line for
sharklet retrot
Airframer trumps with less aggressive
timeline and fuel-burn improvements
26
SAFETY
Helios accident
continues to highlight potential conict
Greek tragedy
11
A319 destablished chasing glideclope.
Odyssey will be a class apart in premium
sector
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HELICOPTER LEASING
Asset transfer
GENERAL AVIATION
Remote oil and gas drilling drives demand
19
Icon raises $60m to nance A5 amphibian
development.
China set for search and rescue service
expansion
12
Tighter A320 supply chain reassures
Airbus.
Windtunnel testing aims to rene
Russian Ecojet
BUSINESS
20
Aerojet needs speed – fast
13
BAE Systems Hawk strayed into rotating
Boeing 777’s path.
Sidestick slip led A330 to veer
REGULARS
5 Comment
33 Interactive
34 Straight & Level
35 Letters
37 Classified
40 Jobs
43 Working Week
DEFENCE
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Italian-assembled Chinook makes rst
ight for army.
ScanEagle catapulted to naval victory
NEXT WEEK
TRAINING
David Learmount examines the changing
philosophy of pilot training. We also
unveil our Insight special report into the
commercial simulators market
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Germany bids ‘Pharewell’ to last F-4Fs
after 40 years.
Sea Hercules locates potential users
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CONTENTS
IN THIS ISSUE
Companies listed
Aerojet Rocketdyne ..................................7, 20
AeroVironment .......................................17, 21
AgustaWestland .....................................14, 19
Airbus ............................6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13
AirFlite .........................................................18
Air France ....................................................11
Antonov ......................................................... 6
Astrium .......................................................... 6
Awan Inspirasi ............................................... 7
BAE Systems .....................................6, 13, 15
Bell Boeing ..................................................16
Bell Helicopter .............................................19
BJET.............................................................18
Boeing ........................................... 6, 8, 13, 14
Bombardier ................................... 6, 8, 11, 18
British Airways ........................................11, 13
CAE ............................................................... 6
Cassidian ....................................................14
Cessna ..................................................18, 19
China Airlines...............................................13
CITIC Offshore Helicopter .............................18
Cobham.......................................................21
Comlux ........................................................18
Conviasa ......................................................10
Dassault ......................................................18
Doncasters ..................................................21
Elettronica ...................................................14
Embraer ................................................... 9, 10
Emirates ......................................................13
Eurocopter ............................................... 7, 19
Euroghter ..................................................... 6
Flybe ...........................................................20
Garmin ........................................................18
GE Aviation ..................................................21
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems ........14
GKN Aerospace ............................................18
Global Jet ....................................................18
Greenpoint Technologies ..............................18
Hindustan Aeronautics .................................21
Honeywell ....................................................14
Icon Aircraft .................................................19
Independent Aircraft ....................................19
Israel Aerospace Industries ..........................14
JetBlue Airways ............................................10
Kris Sakti Aviation ........................................19
Lockheed Martin ................................6, 15, 16
MTU Aero Engines ........................................20
Northrop Grumman......................................21
NPO Energomash........................................... 7
Odyssey Airlines ...........................................11
Orbital Sciences............................................. 7
Parker Aerospace ........................................... 8
Piper Aircraft ................................................18
Pratt & Whitney ........................................ 8, 21
Qantas Airways .............................................. 7
Qatar Airways ................................................. 8
Rafael ..........................................................21
Raytheon .....................................................15
RD AMROSS .................................................. 7
Rockwell Collins ...........................................18
Rolls-Royce ................................................ 6, 7
Ruag Aerospace Services .............................14
Saab .....................................................16, 21
Sagem .........................................................21
Scandinavian Airlines ..................................... 6
Selex ES ......................................................14
Sikorsky .................................................18, 19
Snecma .......................................................18
Southern Vietnam Helicopter ......................... 7
SpaceX ........................................................20
Transaven Airlines.........................................10
TransDigm ....................................................21
United Aircraft ..............................................21
United Launch Alliance .................................. 7
BEHIND THE
HEADLINES
THE WEEK ON THE WEB
flightglobal.com
Dan Thisdell
donned his clean
room kit for a visit to
Astrium’s
Toulouse spacecraft factory for a
look at the European Space
Agency’s
The DEW Line
blog this week takes a photo tour of the
military types on show at Le Bourget. Fittingly,
Dave Majum-
dar
declares
Sukhoi’s mighty Su-35
(business end
pictured) to have been
best-in-show – check the blog
for what is probably the best
video
Gaia mission
to map
the
, before it gets
packed for shipping to Kourou
and launch in October (Briengs
P6). “The astronomers are
Milky Way
over
footage going of its
awesome display
the Moon
– this is like the
Human Genome Project of star
mapping. It will be to existing star
catalogues what
routine
.
Charting a busy week in
spaceight,
Hyperbola
notes
is to
black and white television,”says
Thisdell.
3D HD
a rare event –
Soyuz
rockets
that made two launches in one day, from
French Guiana
and
Dominic Perry
was at
Kazakhstan
. China’s successful Shenzhou 10 mission to the
Tiangong-1 mini-space station
Eurocopter’s plant in
,
France to research his feature on
the growing
Marignane
is also documented; some
speculate that its in-orbit manoeuvres are part of a long
training regime to prepare for a taikonauts’ Moon landing.
And, at
helicopter leasing
sector (P30).
Arie Egozi wonders if
unmanned systems can prove their worth in
Ariel View,
our man in
Israel
civil missions
– read about a
Brussels
-sponsored
Heron
test ight.
Find all these items at
flightglobal.com/wotw
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Last week, we asked:
Who or what stole the show at Paris?
You said:
Airbus A350
BA A380
Embraer’s E2
Michael
O’Leary
Sukhoi Su-35
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PARIS: A350 makes low pass over Le Bourget
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PARIS: United orders 35 A350-1000s via -900 conversion
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Scandinavian Airlines to order A350s and more A330s
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Low-level Hawk strayed into path of departing Emirates Boeing
777-300ER
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 COMMENT
Self-inflicted wounds
Bombardier damaged its credibility more than it ought by announcing the latest – short and
short-notice – delay to rst ight of its CSeries. Those problems are of its own making
A
nnouncing a delay of up to one month in a five-
year development programme would be meaning-
less and usually forgotten unless a company – or, in-
deed, an entire industry – suffers from an acute
credibility problem.
So when Bombardier postpones the maiden flight by
the first CSeries aircraft by anywhere between one and
31 days, the public and investment community reac-
tion to yet another delay – however trivial it may actu-
ally be – by another aerospace manufacturer has be-
come somewhat predictable.
The company’s stock sank as much as 4.5% on the
Toronto stock exchange in the first few hours after the
announcement, as shareholders worried about what
other surprises Bombardier may be preparing to un-
leash about the CSeries.
A loss of credibility is one problem an OEM cannot
pin on its suppliers. Bombardier executives were never
forced to say repeatedly and consistently since last No-
Out in the air, but not yet in the air
open runways. But there had been no sightings of the
CSeries performing the required battery of low-speed
and high-speed tests in Mirabel, Canada.
A similar pattern was revealed during 2012 as Bom-
bardier closed within 10 weeks of the originally sched-
uled first flight by 31 December. The giveaway that a
major delay was looming was the status of engine certi-
fication. By late October, Pratt & Whitney still had not
completed development testing of the PW1500G en-
gine for the CSeries, which typically finishes at least six
months before a first flight event.
It wasn’t until 7 November that Bombardier an-
nounced that the CSeries first flight was delayed by
six months. P&W finally certificated the PW1500G
with Transport Canada in February, which happens to
be six months ahead of the new schedule for first flight
in July.
These are self-inflicted wounds – and it is time that
the industry begins to understand that it is only fooling
itself.
O
Bombardier executives were
never forced to say repeatedly
the CSeries would fly by June
vember that the CSeries would fly by late June. Nor was
there any requirement to repeat the prediction ad nau-
seam in public appearances and interviews at the Paris
air show, an event that ended three days before Bom-
bardier announced the latest delay.
Bombardier’s show of confidence during the show
also seems almost gratuitously unnecessary. Signs of a
gathering delay had been building for weeks. It takes
months to prepare for a maiden flight by a commercial
aircraft, including a series of highly visible tests on
See Cover Story P8
The future belongs to the bold
W
hen Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky parent United
Technologies closed its $18 million deal to buy
Goodrich last year, it set out a basket of business units
for sale – partly to satisfy competition authorities, and
partly to pull in some cash to offset the cost.
The most storied name put on the block was
Rocketdyne. Despite its history as builder of engines for
the Moon rockets, Space Shuttle and current US rocket
types, the business proved difficult to sell.
As UTC said at the time, Rocketdyne is a good
business, but without a visible US space policy there is
no real growth in it. Aerojet must think otherwise, or it
wouldn’t have stumped up $550 million – more than
its own market capitalisation.
For now, what Aerojet has bought is a revenue
stream that will hopefully justify the outlay. Further on
it envisions a mix of its own technology and Rocket-
dyne’s powering it into the lead in a defence market
dominated by hypersonic missiles. If flight at Mach 4-6
proves practical then Aerojet may have turned a coup,
but transformative acquisitions are always risky.
The implications go far beyond Aerojet. For sure,
many other companies reliant on tight US defence
spending are also having to consider risks that probably
wouldn’t have passed corporate muster during the
pre-crisis gravy years. The future belongs to the bold –
assuming they don’t crash and burn.
O
There is an interactive cutaway
of the CSeries in issue three of
our Paris i-magazines. Click on
Flight Daily News button at
flightglobal.com/paris
See Business P20
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