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DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENT SALES UK and EUROPE Display Advertising Enquiries +44 (20) 8652 3315 Display Advertising Fax +44(20)86528381 Group Advertisement Director Richard Thiele +44 [20) 8652 3319 Advertisement Manager Simon Lees +44 (20) 8652 3904 Sales and Events Co-ordinator Lisa Devlin +44 (20) 8652 3315 Advertisement Production Display/Classified Howard Mason +44(20)86523267 UK, IRELAND, BENELUX, IBERIA, GREECE, THE MIDDLE EAST and ISRAEL, AFRICA GERMANY, SCANDINAVIA and EASTERN EUROPE Sales Manager Shawn Buck +44 (20) 8652 4998 Area Manager Warren McEwan +44(20)86523316 FRANCE and SWITZERLAND Sales Director France Pierre Mussard Tel +33(1)55959513 Reed Business Information France. 2. rue Maurice Hartmann, 92133 Issy-les-Moulineaux. France. Fax +33 (1) 55 95 9515 ITALY Managing Director Roberto Lauren Tel +39 (2) 236 2500 Laureri Associates SRL. Via Vallazze 43.20131 Milano. 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JL" 1 1££;JL 1 LI 1 1 1C The text of Flight International and Airline Business can be found on the following databases Lexis-Nexis. Knight-Ridder DataStar, FT Profile, IAC/ Predicasts. and Reuters. Details from tel +44 (2018652 8721.Published by Reed Business Information, Quadrant House, The Quadrant. Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5AS. UK Flight International'is sold subject to the following conditions namely, that it is not without the written consent of the publishers first given, lent, re-sold, hired out or in any unauthorised cover by way of trade; or affixed to. or as part of. any publication or advertising, literary or pictorial matter whatsoever The publishers of Flight International ate prepared to accept unsolicited material, but only on the understanding that such material is submitted wholly at the risk of the provider, and that the publishers cannot guarantee the receipt, safekeeping or return of non-commissioned wort; in any format, including manuscripts, digital data, photographic prints and transparencies. Flight International' is a registered trademark of Reed Business Information Ltd © 1999 Reed Business Information Ltd. TIME TRAVEL NO-ONE SPIRITED direct from 1899 to the present would find advances in surface transportation unbelievable, but aero space would amaze diem. While ships, cars and trains have seen massive gains in efficiency, they are still fundamentally die same machines. Within the past 100 years, however, pow ered flight has not only been invented but mas tered. Air transport, with telecommunications as its crucial partner,has shrunk the world. It is the ability to travel anywhere on the planet within 24h that makes news from 10,000km away relevant to us all. No-one, any longer, can feel insulated from world events because of distance. A visitor from 1899 would see that Con corde has made supersonic flight unsurprising, if still glamourous. And, as the new century starts, Airbus Industrie is preparing to launch its A3XX, and Boeingits 747-X, presagingan era in which 1,000-passenger airliners will take to the air, offering levels of safety and reliability undreamed of at the dawTi of die jet age. When there will be a successor to Concorde depends as much on future attitudes towards aviation and the environment as it does on advances in technology. In fact, just as the devel oped world is having to decide what to do about road transport congestion and die pollution caused by its "success", air transport is facing air traffic control and aiqiort congestion, and seri ous questions about aviation's contribution to global wanning. Our time traveller would also recognise that aerospace technology has, at least until recendy, been driven by military demands. In the Eirst World War, aviation may have had a negligible effect on the course of die conflict, but the war massively accelerated die rate of aircraft devel opment. In 1914, aeroplanes struggled to get airborne. Eour years later they could dogfight and drop bombs. In the Second World War, military aviation's greatest influence was to extend the battle well beyond "the front line", adding to its military complexity and escalating the impact on the "No-one spirited from 1899 would find surface transport unbelievable, but aerospace would amaze them." civilian population. Once the first atomic bombs had been dropped on Nagasaki and I Hiroshima, the world had changed forever. The subsequent development of the inter continental ballistic missile ensured that no nation could believe itself immune from nuclear strike. Arguably, this fearsome capability also prevented Word War Three. While our visitor from die past would have to acknowledge diat nuclear war re mains a possibility, it is clear that a revolution in conventional wea ponry has given the military the ability to strike with surgical precision, promising to limit casualties among soldiers and civilians. It remains to be seen whether today's preci sion munitions, cou pled with emerging information warfare capabilities, can have the same deterrent effect that saw us safely through the Cold War. Perhaps man's ability to break free from Earth's bonds is what would most surprise our visitor from 1899. Neil Armstrong's "one small step" on to the moon's surface is probably the most inspiring event in die history of exploration - and not only for those who watched it as it hap pened on dieir black and white television sets. As die 20di century closes and die 21 st opens, space remains the "final frontier" for our indus try. With die past year's spate of launch vehicle failures, the continuing controversy over the cost, schedule and rationale for the International Space Station and now NASAs missing Mars probes, it might seem that much of the excitement of space has worn off. But for an industry that has advanced from the Wright Elyer to the Voyager planetary probe exploring beyond the furthest reaches of our galaxy in less than 100 years, the exploration and exploitation of space still provides one of the greatest opportunity for technological and com mercial advancement, and the potential to con tinue transforming our everyday lives. The end of the 20th century may have been hijacked by the computer and communications industries, but many of the crowning technolog ical achievements of the past 100 years have been in aerospace. 3 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 22 December 1999 - 3 January 2000
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