Op-Ed Columnists – Page 18
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Comment: Would Europe flounder again if the ash cloud returns?
European aviation need not suffer from organisational confusion the next time its skyways are choked with ash - assuming regulators and airlines can learn to embrace risk
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Comment: Of steady sales and plunging profits
An aphorism of the corporate world holds that turnover is vanity, margin is sanity. In other words: grow sales all you want, it's profits that count.
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Comment: The revolution starts now
US defence contractors are tightening their belts as Washington makes it clear that economy is the big gun in budgeting. After a decade of rampant growth, some trimming is in order
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Comment: Buy American
With pressure on US military spending putting defence company accounts under strain, big contractors are looking for new markets - and Washington is keen to lower export barriers
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Comment: Airframers aren't the only later arrivers
In-flight entertainment and connectivity vendors don't do well with deadlines. Like major airframers, they often agree to overly ambitious delivery schedules, only to end up missing the mark by many months or even years.
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Comment: Oh, what a lovely war
Fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan has been the making of an unmanned aircraft industry whose products have become frontline essentials. The prospect of peace poses serious dangers
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Comment: Trade tussle's big winner?The lawyers
If a successful compromise is one that leaves everyone equally dissatisfied, the World Trade Organisation must be delighted with its handling of the US-brought case on Airbus subsidies.
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Comment: Pilot licences should be invalid unless accompanied by full training performance records
The Colgan Air accident at Buffalo has certainly shaken up US thinking about what makes - and keeps - an airline pilot competent.
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Comment: Time to pay for safety
As last week's fatal crash in Colombia sadly highlights, fast-growing Latin America needs to recognise that failing to invest in airport infrastructure and staff training costs lives
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Comment: Is final assemble the final JSF hurdle?
Keeping track of the F-35 programme is not easy. There is nothing small or seemingly simple about it. There are at least 11 governments actively involved...
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Comment: Gently does it
Following another incident of an Airbus vertical stabiliser overload, maybe it's not enough just to warn the pilots to be careful. The NTSB wants EASA to consider a design modification
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Comment: Human factors
What we all know as unmanned aircraft systems are called remotely piloted aircraft by the US Air Force. The difference is expensive, but the service's culture may be hard to change
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Comment: Output hikes: smart move or daft logic?
Airbus has backed up the Farnborough declaration by chief salesman John Leahy that the global recession is officially over, confirming that it will ramp...
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Comment: Can Russia make good its global dream?
The drive by Russia's civil aircraft manufacturing industry to re-establish itself on the world stage was much in evidence at Farnborough.
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Comment: Hawking for exports
The UK is looking to follow its Indian success with more overseas sales, but is it realistic to expect deals for aircraft like the Eurofighter Typhoon with Tranche 3B production at risk?
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Comment: F-35 overshadowed: will its day come?
Lockheed Martin's wooden F-35 mock-up overlooks the Farnborough flightline. From this exposed position, the F-35 is a rich target during the show.
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Comment: The only way is up
Did Farnborough mark a turning point for an industry still feeling its way out of recession? While economic indicators are not unanimous, aerospace came out of last week on a high
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Comment: Re-engining - stroke of genius or bad idea?
The industry has been waiting to hear whether Rolls-Royce would join the party - with or without its International Aero Engines partners - to offer a powerplant for re-engining today's single-aisle aircraft.