All articles by Murdo Morrison – Page 36
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AnalysisANALYSIS: ALA joins the supply chain management elite
Compared with designing and assembling aircraft or engines, supply chain management will never be the sexiest area of aerospace. But the work of its specialist firms – consolidating consignments of fasteners and other tiny parts from dozens of suppliers, and delivering them just in time to final assembly lines of ...
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AnalysisANALYSIS: P2012 takes Tecnam to a new dimension
Professor Luigi Pascale is a living link to the post-war heyday of Italian aviation. The sprightly 93-year-old still spends most of his days at the Capua premises and even flying the products of Tecnam, the light piston-aircraft manufacturer he co-founded in the mid-1980s and which has since produced 4,500 aircraft. ...
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ANALYSIS: Why Enders has brought Airbus closer together
The Tom Enders revolution continues at Airbus Group, soon to be simply Airbus under a plan to merge the corporate entity with its commercial aircraft division and near-namesake. The proposal, the latest bold stroke by its German chief executive – approved by the board on 29 September and which will ...
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CORRECTION: Top 100 Senior
An currency conversion error meant we significantly misrepresented Senior's position in our recent Top 100 ranking of aerospace companies by turnover.
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NBAA: Air Force One - a history of the ultimate business jet
Whether it’s President Hillary Clinton or President Donald Trump, one of the perks of winning the top job is getting to fly in the world’s ultimate business jet – actually a pair of Boeing 747-200-derived VC-25s operated by the US air force and known by the call sign Air Force ...
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AAD: Superjet-based Sukhoi Business Jet goes on show
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) has displayed the executive version of its Superjet 100 at an air show for only the second time as the Russian-Italian partnership works to certificate an extended-range version of the business aircraft by the start of next year.
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ANALYSIS: HAV makes plans to return Airlander 10 to flight
As he stands near the spot on the grass airfield where the Airlander 10’s second flight came to a bumpy end on 24 August – a nose-first landing described as the “world’s slowest air crash” – Hybrid Air Vehicles’ Chris Daniels admits “the world will be watching” next time the ...
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AAD: Zambian L-15 debuts
The first Chinese-made Hongdu L-15 supersonic light attack/jet trainer for Zambia has broken cover at Africa Aerospace and Defence in the markings of the air force’s 15 Sqn.
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AAD: South Africa puts its future aerospace hopes in SARA
Denel showed at AAD a fuselage mock-up of its 24-seat Small African Regional Aircraft (SARA) it hopes can be a catalyst for the revival of the country's neglected aerospace engineering and design capabilities.
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AAD: Denel to begin formal talks over relaunching Rooivalk
South Africa's government has given the go-ahead for Denel to engage in formal talks with potential foreign partners with a view to launching production of a new "mark two" version of its Rooivalk attack helicopter.
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AAD: Paramount unveils military version of AHRLAC
South African defence contractor Paramount showed two sides of its AHRLAC single prop pusher - literally. At its exhibit, the left half of its single prototype example was presented in its recently-announced Mwari militarised version, with the other half in civil, surveillance guise.
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AAD: Vliegmasjien moves closer to Wolf first flight
Four years after unveiling its single-engine amphibious Wolf "bush plane" concept at AAD, South African company Vlieg Masjien has returned with a prototype it hopes to fly next year, and looking for investors to help bring the design to production.
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AAD: S-Plane offers kit to convert manned aircraft to OPV
South African company S-Plane launched a kit at the show that allows operators to convert manned aircraft into optionally piloted vehicles (OPV). The technology, exhibited in an Italian-built FAMA 209 ultralight helicopter, comprises a "plug in" airborne terminal, which is fitted in the baggage hold of the aircraft and connected ...
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AAD: Seeker surveillance aircraft debuts
CSI Aviation, which bought the Seeker light surveillance aircraft programme from its Australian developer two years ago, showed the fixed-wing, single-pusher design at AAD for the first time as it looks to start assembly in the USA.
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Top 100 aerospace manufacturers hit by fall in revenues and profits in 2015
As is often the case, this year’s ranking of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers by revenue has a familiar feel, with the top eight companies staying in the same position as last year and only small movements throughout most of the list. The industry is dominated by big beasts and ...
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NewsAirlander developer HAV plans rapid return to flight
The developer of the Airlander 10 hopes to return it to flight later this year after the large hybrid airship was damaged by a hard landing on 24 August. UK-based Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) says the accident, during its second sortie and in which neither pilot was hurt, caused superficial ...
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Airlander sustains damage after landing from second test flight
The Airlander 10 airship has been damaged on landing after its second test flight. Manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles confirmed in a tweet around 13:15 UK time that the aircraft had “sustained damage on landing during today’s flight”.
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NewsAirlander 10 makes first test flight
A week and a half after emerging from its hangar, Airlander 10 - the world's biggest aircraft - has made its first short flight since the cancellation three years ago of the US programme it was designed for.
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UK company to revive Ae270
A UK engineering company is resurrecting the Ae270 single-engine turboprop, almost a decade after the programme was axed by its joint developers, Aero Vodochody of the Czech Republic and Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC).
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NewsPICTURE: Airlander 10 exits hangar ahead of first flight
The world’s biggest aircraft – the Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 – left its hangar for the first time on 6 August, and will fly once a series of checks have been completed while the airship is tethered to a mast.