Blogs: February 2012 Archives

On the 25th anniversary of the first Airbus A320 flight, FlightBlogger argued that the narrowbody type's single biggest contribution to commercial aerospace is its digital fly-by-wire flight control system. On the Asian Skies blog, Greg Waldron posted test-flight footage of China's Sunward Tech Star-Lite SVU200 vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle (UAV). Ariel View's Arie Egozi profiled Sky Sapience's tethered hovering platform for small vehicles, the HoverMast (above), which will be displayed at the AUVSI international conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 20-22. On The DEW Line, Stephen Trimble used "the Goldilocks method" to analyse a mystery UAV snapped in flight over Uzbekistan: "Predator/Gray Eagle/Reaper is too big, yet the UAV still seems too small to be a Hermes 900. China's Pterodactyl/Wing Loong, however, seems just right."

Delays forced temporary renaming of FlightBlogger's Movie Monday series, but Movie Tuesday was worth the wait with its dramatic videos of aircraft on approach to landing.

One was shot from the flightdeck of an Airbus A320 descending to Bhutan's Paro airport, "widely believed to be the most difficult approach in the world" as the runway, at 7,300ft, is surrounded by 18,000ft peaks.

FlightBlogger also posted his photos of Lufthansa's first Boeing 747-8 flying in Everett.

Our Image of the Day blog carried a Lockheed Martin shot (above) of the 11th C-5B aircraft inducted to the C-5M Super Galaxy production line, and on Asian Skies Greg Waldron noted Boeing's dig at the Lockheed Martin F-35 in the title of a Singapore briefing on "the balanced and evolutionary approach to fighter design versus the challenges of fielding a 'revolutionary' design affordably and on schedule

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We've also featured the weekly editorial "comment" from Flight International magazine (also know as the opinion leader column).

This is hosted on Murdo Morrison's Flight International Editor's Blog and is also published in the front of the magazine each week, and offers the "Flight International take" on topical industry matters.

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