All Opinion articles – Page 43
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Comment: End of a stand-off
In taking the bold step of avoiding a new-product strategy, Airbus sets in train a long-postponed game-theory exercise of which indefinite status quo is the only impossible result
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Comment: No place to hide
A range of new security technologies waiting for recognition have the potential simultaneously to improve the airport experience for passengers and outwit potential terrorists.
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Comment: Deja vu in DC
We may never again see anything like the General Dynamics F-111, but at least we can relive the bitterly controversial contract dispute that enveloped Washington at its creation
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Comment: the cyclical pilot feeding frenzy
It looks as if the airlines are waking up, as they always do in the end, to the fact that stopping pilot and engineer recruitment in a recession does not freeze the number of employees precisely where it was when recruiting stopped.
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Comment: Accident information rules must change
The commercial air transport industry and its regulators, all the way up to the International Civil Aviation Organisation, need to review their protocols...
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Comment: No free ride to space
Saving money and developing a spacecraft to replace the Shuttle sound like mutally exclusive endeavours in cash-strapped Washington, but politicians aren't getting the real cost issue
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Comment: New report shows that airline pilots are missing both basic and advanced skills
Pilots are perhaps the most frequently re-trained people in any profession, yet accidents are revealing that many flightcrew are missing both basic and advanced skills
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Comment: Speculation and reassurance
Rolls-Royce has been taking a lot of heat. Having one of its newest products - a mighty Trent 900 - blow up under the wing of that most attention-grabbing of aircraft, a packed-with-people Qantas Airbus A380, was a good route to negative publicity.
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Comment: China's not whispering
Foreign visitors to next week's Zuhai air show may rightly conclude that locally developed aircraft aren't up to Western standards - but they'll be completely missing the point
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Comment: UK/France defence pact spells a tale of two cities
Facing the worst of financial times, the UK and France have signed a broad-ranging defence co-operation pact ...
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Comment: A silver lining to the ash cloud?
In recent years the European Union has zapped its air carriers. It has introduced over-the-top passenger rights legislation and has delayed and long-routed flights with its jigsaw-puzzle air traffic management system. And it has overcharged airlines for the privilege.
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Comment: Breakthrough or bust
After 25 years of operating Bell's Kiowa Warrior as an 'interim' platform, the US Army is pushing, again, for a replacement. But will a gamble on new technology return a winner?
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COMMENT: Business aviation is shackled in most of the world
Business aviation gets a rough ride in most of the world for no good reason. Changing that situation should be the principal aim of all the business aviation...
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Comment: Defence review, or strategic error?
What are the long-term implications of the UK's decisions to axe its carrier strike and maritime patrol aircraft capabilities?
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Comment: It's a style thing
Price, performance and after-sales service all figure into the mix when it comes to choosing between brands. But what really makes the sale is raw, sexy good looks
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Comment: The nuts and bolts of the plastic fanatic
Aerospace manufacturers have long been convinced of the benefits of lightweight, aerodynamic composite materials, but engineering has proved problematic.
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Comment: Short ride on a spaceplane
The term "space tourism" does not always bring to mind positive images. Think chequebook astronauts who dream of going boldly without actually having to compete intellectually with the terrifyingly well-qualified crew who fill the seats on real space missions
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Comment: Zero hour for helicopter safety improvement
Now, five years after the International Helicopter Safety Team launched its historic attempt to transform global rotary-wing safety performance, it has assembled the necessary critical mass of data on which to base intervention strategies
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Comment: Speed – a question of money
When Mel "Mad Max" Gibson visits a lonely desert mechanic in search of serious horsepower, a sign above the door sums it all up: "Speed is a question of money - how fast do you want to go?"