Op-Ed Columnists – Page 21
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Comment: Dutch dreams of Fokker revival
In the 1990s the Fokker JetLine family - comprising the 70 and 100 models - was in a fight for supremacy at the top end of a sparsely populated regional...
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Comment: Eurotraining scheme hits turbulence
Europe's long-held aspiration to establish a collaborative military pilot training system could be within months of collapse, with the nine partner nations...
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Comment: Business aviation needs a good fatigue risk management system
Airlines are proving crew fatigue risk management to be a safety concept whose time has come. Business aviation operators should embrace - rather than resist - a huge improvement
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Comment: Healing in Houston
No longer in denial, the helicopter industry came together in Texas last week, fully aware of its shortcomings and challenges and fully committed to a more robust, safer future
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Comment: Is Obama boxing clever on NASA?
As a former Marine Corps general and Space Shuttle commander, NASA administrator Charles Bolden is well-equipped to take fire. That's good, because he needed all the grace under pressure he could muster last week when senators tore into him and his boss, Barack Obama, for killing off US human spaceflight.
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Comment: Grasping the nettle
As concern grows about the future availability of biofuels, the aviation industry is taking its fate into its own hands as it attempts to implement its commitment to cut carbon emissions
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Comment: Don't hold your breath for a light sabre
It was a moment that signalled the dawn of a new age of photon weapons. A modified Boeing aircraft fired a high-energy laser at a speeding missile.
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Comment: Does FAA pilot training produce the right stuff?
The FAA is reviewing whether its pilot training is producing the right stuff. Perhaps the US aviation authority should be examining instruction quality rather than quantity
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Comment: Taking a back seat on safety
Koito Industries president Takashi Kakegawa says he is sorry his company deceived regulators by supplying false safety test data on a staggering 150,000...
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Comment: What's under your wing?
No surprise: the Singapore air show was not about a flurry of aircraft orders. Much more satisfying was what the show was really about: new products.
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Comment: Concorde trial - an irrevelevant ritual
When the Concorde court case closes it will mark the end of almost 10 years of pointless legal activity.
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Comment: The 976 people recently killed by pilot disorientation accidents
The world has been standing by, watching an accident trend develop. So far it has caused 976 deaths since 2000. How many more are needed before a preventive strategy is applied?
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Comment: Come on Europe, pool that fuel
European nations have already worked together to acquire pooled fleets of AEW aircraft and transports, so could tankers come next? ...
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Comment: Straight and level?
The F-35 programme has fallen three years behind schedule and broken its budget. With new revelations of flight-test delays, it's time for an honest assessment from Lockheed Martin
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Comment: Aerospace looks for a Singapore sling
Those looking to next week's Singapore air show for signals that the global aerospace industry is well into recovery mode are likely to be disappointed. The...
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Comment: Fixing A380 production...take two
Another year, and another effort by Airbus to fix A380 production. In a second attempt to resolve what the airframer admits is an over-complex production...
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Comment: Too big to fail
As with the bank rescues, the damage that would be caused by killing the A400M outweighs the cost of governments bailing the programme out, regardless of where responsibility lies
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Comment: Do you feel in danger?
Airline safety and security have advanced dramatically but are not getting any better, and if improvement is to come then mindsets - not just procedures and technology - need to change