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  • PARIS AIR SHOW: 100 years of Paris air show highlights

    06:00 05 June 2009Paris Procurement Routes

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  • PARIS AIR SHOW: 100 years of Paris air show highlights

    News | 05 Jun 2009 06:00 | Günter Endres

    100 years of Paris air show highlightshttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/PARIS-AIR-SHOW-100-years-of-Paris-air-show-highlights-327190/

  • Flight 100 - History 1959-1979

    News | 02 Jan 2009 00:01 | Günter Endres

    The jet was king and the Jumbo Jet proved bigger was definitely better. Meanwhile, the Harrier showed the UK could still leadhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Flight-100-History-1959-1979-320367/

  • Concorde Special - The airframe engineer - Pierre Gautier

    News | 20 Oct 2003 23:00

    <p>As deputy to Louis Giusta, Sud-Aviation's chief executive, Pierre Gautier was made responsible in 1962 for setting up the structures to develop Concorde's airframe. In 1970 he became the French airframe programme director having overseen the manufacture of the Concorde prototypes from 1965 to 1970. </p> <p>If it were not for the friendly and confident co-operation between the four teams for airframes and engines, Concorde would not have been successfully achieved. In that respect, I would like to pay homage to Sir George Edwards, the chief executive of BAC, who was paramount in ensuring the success of Concorde and the integration of the two teams. Louis Giusta also helped Sir George in this task.</p> <p>The first important decision to make was whether this supersonic aircraft would be designed for medium- or long-haul flights. Following their experience with the Caravelle, the French favoured medium-haul, while the UK preferred longer range. But, with supersonic flight overland ouhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Concorde-Special-The-airframe-engineer-Pierre-Gautier-172661/

  • Back to the future

    News | 18 Dec 2001 00:00

    <p>GUY NORRIS / LOS ANGELES</p> <p>In the 1960s it was taken for granted that development of a supersonic airliner was a natural evolution. Now higher speed is firmly back on the agenda </p> <p>The desire for faster transport has been a constant. At no time since humans progressed from horseback to wheeled travel has an increase in speed not turned out to be a best-seller - with one significant exception, the Anglo-French Concorde. Yet in the 1960s it was taken for granted that the market would follow a natural evolutionary course. Forecasts presented to an International Air Transport Association technical conference in 1967 predicted that there would be a market for 1,250 supersonic transports (SSTs) between 1972 and 1978. British Aircraft Corporation, then in the midst of developing Concorde with Aerospatiale, modestly estimated its share of the market over the period would be "at least 250". </p> <p>Even Boeing, at the time working on the 747 and what would become the 2707 SST prhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Back-to-the-future-140226/

  • Supersonic business

    News | 01 Jan 2000 00:00

    <p>It is 7.00pm when the supersonic business jet returns to New York after another normal working day for its passengers. They had left just 12h earlier for a 2h meeting in Moscow and are returning in time to have dinner with their families. Tomorrow it will be Tokyo…</p> <p>Supersonic flight has been a holy grail for civil aviation ever since Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. But only the Anglo-French Concorde and Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 made it into service - and the latter only briefly. Boeing's 2707 supersonic transport (SST) was cancelled in 1971 when the US Government withdrew funding, and the company returned the favour last year when NASA's High Speed Research (HSR) programme was cancelled after Boeing withdrew, citing the lack of a market. </p> <p>The story is the same in Europe, where SST work is essentially dormant. But the hopes for everyday supersonic flight are not dead. They have shifted to a different market - business aviation. Leading the charge is Gulfstream, whihttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Supersonic-business-60488/

  • Perils of prediction

    News | 01 Jan 2000 00:00

    Predictions can prove embarrassing. And airlines are much more cautious these days <p>If <I>Flight International</I> had polled airlines 30 years ago for their predictions on long-term developments within the industry, the answers would have been exciting, ambitious and possibly outrageous. They would also have born little or no relationship to subsequent events. </p> <p>If those airlines were asked today about their long-term requirements, their answers would be different - although the need for quietness and efficiency would still exist. </p> <p>Three decades ago airlines would have been predicting, and seeking, increased speed, capacity and probably vertical or vertical/short take-off and landing (VTOL or V/STOL) ability for their short-haul fleets. Now they are less visionary, with no burning desires to tackle high-risk technologies for additional speed. Instead, they are more interested in efficiency and reliability. </p> <p>Airlines want low-risk, competitively priced designhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Perils-of-prediction-60467/

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  • Week on the web

    Blog | 09 Sep 2011 08:17 | Barbara Cockburn

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs//2011/09/week-on-the-web-109.html

  • A Tu-144 documentary, Lufthansa 747-8I and a programming note

    Blog | 07 Sep 2011 08:38 | Jon Ostrower

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger//2011/09/programming-note-and-a-tu-144.html

  • J-20: China's ultimate aircraft carrier-killer?

    Blog | 09 Feb 2011 15:17 | Stephen Trimble

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline//2011/02/j-20-chinas-ultimate-aircraft.html

  • Tu-144 at Kazan - just a machine

    Blog | 10 Feb 2009 10:05 | Kieran Daly

    http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/unusual-attitude//2009/02/tu-144-at-kazan---just-a-machi.html

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