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12 CSeries: More to come Airframer hints at further

package of improvements after revealing types
brochure-beating performance statistics
features
44 Buoyant Le Bourget While the daily flying display

lacked the volume of previous Paris shows, the
quality of hardware still caught the eye
46 Static fantastic Le Bourget gave visitors the
opportunity to pause beside a wide range of
visiting aircraft, from the cutting-edge of current
technology to classic types
48 We showed you Whether you were at the Paris
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8 Final hours Wizz buy for Toulouse
9 Launch confirms the only way is X6
10 Paris order bonanza pips Farnborough
16 Boeing mulls middle of the market concept for
new jet
18 GTF eyed by Turkish regional jet firm
19 Export deal for JF-17 struck with unnamed Asia nation.
Positive tales put Scorpion under order spotlight
20 NH Industries seeking new orders as backlog
stablilises.
Boeing looks to fill empty Chinook production slots
22 Reborn A320 P2F scheme adopts pragmatic
strategy
24 French faith lifts weight from Atlas.
Antonov quietly details new transport
26 F-35 ramping up as milestone nears
27 Airbuss motoring mindset for E-Fan
28 ATRs enhancements spur order glut.
Bombardier renews regional efforts
30 Mitsubishi builds decimal place for MRJ production.
More commitments come despite delay to C919
31 Superjet lessor out to break China
33 Partners wait on German UAV tender.
Honeywell wants Global Hawk for avoidance trials
36 UTC takes steps for Sikorsky divorce.
Airbus Helicopters lifted by debut as H160 flight
tests get off the ground
37 L-39NG upgrade has takers amid prototype
preparation.
Mali strengthens with Super Tucano
39 Net Ray on display as Portugal testing continues.
Shadow M2 put through paces for France UAV bid
40 Boeing grows BBJ range with launch of Max 9 variant.
Ex-demo Dassault for Chinese medevac missions
41 Metal Master starts family planning after Flaris is a
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42 Thrush comes back with a vengeance as Archangel.
New name gives Wolverine more bite
43 Dordain legacy a bigger, stronger ESA
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Same again?
This years Paris air show was supposed to be a departure from the order frenzies seen in
previous editions, but while the numbers were lower, the surprises still came thick and fast
t was supposed to be the industrialisation air show

at Le Bourget this year.
For the first time since 2009, neither Airbus or Boeing came to Paris with a new product launch either imminent or scheduled for the show. Meanwhile, soldout backlogs and lower fuel prices should have
constrained the usual flurry of order announcements.
The message everywhere was on the challenge of actually producing all of the aircraft and new models
launched and ordered over the past five years.
But if that was the script, there was a lot of improvising going on.
The pace and number of order announcements came
more slowly, but still built steadily over the week.
Other surprises came in more subtle ways such as
an absence of activity. Bombardier gained a wealth of
deservedly good publicity with the debut of the CS100
and the graceful flying display of the CS300, but failed
to attract any new orders.
Engine makers are not keen

to take on more work until they
can deliver current promises
A completely revamped commercial aircraft executive and sales team have had only weeks on the job to
prepare, but they need to move quickly. Bombardier
needs to sell 57 aircraft within the next six months to
meet its 300-order goal at entry into service.
By the end of the week, it became clear that Boeings
pursuit of a middle of the market concept within about
a decade is no smokescreen, despite barbed comments
from Toulouse. Whether Boeings new product development team develop a robust business case is still
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Presence, but no gift-wrapped orders
open to question, but something must be done to respond to Airbuss potentially dominating A321neo LR
and A330-800neo.
In that sense, the air show served Boeings interests
quite well. After both flooding suppliers with work and
squeezing on price, it may need their financial and
technical support if a new product is launched.
Engine companies undoubtedly would have the
hardest decision to make. The crop of new derivatives
in development by Airbus and Boeing mostly preserve
the original airframe, with new winglets and composite
wings added in some cases. But the engine manufacturers have the task of developing several all-new engines for the derivative models, while meeting the
same ramp-up commitments shared by Airbus and
Boeing for both clean-sheet and existing aircraft.
Not surprisingly, the executives of engine manufacturers are less enthusiastic about taking on any more
work until they can prove they can deliver on promises
already made.
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ince Airbus handed over the last A300-600F in

2007 its freighter strategy has been far more miss
than hit.
It scrubbed its high-profile A380F programme in the
same year, effectively handing a lifeline to Boeings 747
a strategic decision which chief salesman John
Leahy, at this years Paris air show, admitted he
always regretted.
Airbus turned to the A330 as a new-build freighter
platform but, with sales of barely 40 aircraft in eight
years, and a shift in the cargo market away from dedicated freighters, the type has not replicated the runaway success of its passenger sister. The subsequent
failed venture with Russia to develop an A320 conver-
sion programme appeared to cap off Airbuss miserable

run in the cargo game.
But down isnt quite out, and Airbus is regrouping
under a different battle flag by handing leadership to
ST Aerospace.
That the strategy includes surrendering majority
ownership of EFW underlines the significance of the
change of tack one which will give Airbus the chance
to offer a family of freighters, from the A320 to the
A330-300, with fewer burdens on its resources.
If Airbuss freighter efforts have been off-target, the
ST partnership might just provide the steady hand necessary to improve its aim.
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While some familiar names such as BAE Systems and
Finmeccanica were absent from the chalet rows at the
Paris air show, a steady flow of commercial orders meant
there was still much to enjoy as the aerospace industry
massed in Le Bourget. Clear skies aided the modest
number of participants in the daily flying display, including
Bombardiers debutante CS300, which impressed visitors
but failed to secure fresh orders. New project launches
were few, but notable in the case of Airbus Helicopters X6.
Our global reporting team was out in force to cover every
angle of the sectors must-attend event of the year
order
Airbus bags its biggest deal on last day of show as low-cost

airline agrees to take 110 A321neos in high-density format
irbus saved its biggest deal

until the last business day of
the show, announcing that central
European budget carrier Wizz Air
has tentatively agreed to take 110
A321neos in a high-density, 239seat Cabin Flex configuration.
Airbus says the aircraft, fitted
with 18in seats, would be delivered between 2019 and 2024.
The memorandum of understanding also covers 90 purchase
rights. Flightglobals Ascend Fleets
The carrier has yet to select an engine type for its twinjets
database shows that Wizz operates

61 current generation A320ceos and
has another 23 plus 27 A321ceos
on order. It is preparing to receive the
latter of these from later this year,
with a layout of 230 seats.
The airlines A321neo deal is
the biggest single order to date for
the variant and pushes A320neofamily orders and commitments
beyond 4,000, Airbus indicates.
Hungarian-based Wizz operates 380 routes from 22 sites.
Meanwhile, the carrier is still

examining whether there is a
case to increase the seat density
in its A320s.
Chief executive Jozsef Varadi
says the carrier hasnt made a
decision on whether to take the
step, following the development
of higher-density options.
Keep in mind that we lease
our current fleet, he says, adding that the airline is looking at
the business case for commit-
ting to a cabin reconfiguration.

Varadi says that the airline is examining several options, including 186-seat, 188-seat and 189seat layouts.
It has yet to select an engine
type for the A321neos, which
will begin arriving in 2019, but
says the decision will be made
over the next year or so, following a market contest between the
CFM International Leap-1A and
Pratt & Whitney PW1100G.
production
Indian deal key to Dassaults Rafale rate ramp-up

assault could increase its production rate for the Rafale
fighter if a proposed 36-unit purchase by India is confirmed, and
remains optimistic about the
prospects of eventually selling
many more to the nation.
Asked how Dassault can satisfy the Indian government and
meet its demands, chief executive Eric Trappier says: We have
been there for 50 years and are
not very good at appeasing them.
We are still trying.
Trappier says the companys
Make in India plans are still active and that it has leadership of
the supply chain for manufacturing to be carried out in India.

But I am cautious. Indias need
is much greater than the 36. 120
is more like it.
Dassault currently produces a
combined 11 Rafales per year for
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Qatar has ordered 24 fighters
the French air force and navy.

The first three of 24 aircraft recently ordered by Egypt will be
delivered this year. With Qatar
also having confirmed an order
for 24, the production line will
switch from completing aircraft
for the French defence forces and
will instead produce for the two
Middle Eastern nations.
Dassault is still heavily involved in the fighter contest in
Kuwait and still has hopes for the
United Arab Emirates, he says.
Also at the show, Sagem announced its receipt of an order to
equip Egypts fighters with its
AASM Hammer air-to-surface

weapon. Deliveries of the more
than 32nm-range (60km) design
will commence next year, it says.
Meanwhile, Trappier highlighted the UKs current lack of a maritime patrol aircraft capability.
The British will want to reintroduce the patrols and my personal view is they will buy American. They have done that before
and made mistakes. Look at the
selection of the [Lockheed
Martin] F-35 for the aircraft carriers. They should have bought Rafale. I hope they will look at the
other options, he says.
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Final hours Wizz

buy for Toulouse
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Launch confirms the only way is X6

New fly-by-wire heavy rotorcraft to arrive next decade will eventually replace the Airbus Helicopters H225 Super Puma
irbus Helicopters has announced further renewal of
its product line with the launch
at Paris of a two-year concept development phase for a new heavy
helicopter provisionally called
the X6.
Destined to ultimately replace
the 11t-class H225, the new rotorcraft will seat 19 passengers and
feature next-generation engines
and fly-by-wire controls. Images
displayed at the air show indicate
an aircraft with five-bladed main
and tail rotors.
Service entry is provisionally
anticipated in the 2022-2023
timeframe, says the airframers
chief executive Guillaume Faury,
and it will set the standard for
the heavy segment when it reaches the market.
The airframer intends to work
with a customer advisory panel
to ensure the configuration of the
X6 is designed by customers, for
customers, says Faury, but the
exact positioning of the helicopter will be the outcome of
the concept phase.
We came to the
conclusion that
fly-by-wire controls
make sense for a
heavy helicopter
Guillaume Faury
Chief executive, Airbus Helicopters
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Chief executive Guillaume Faury says the X6 will be designed by customers, for customers.
It will be pitched initially at
the oil and gas, search and rescue and commercial transport
markets, but a military variant
will subsequently be developed,
says Faury.
Customers are increasingly
demanding aircraft that can fly
further and are safer and more
capable, he says, and the X6 will
match
those
levels
of
expectation.
No engine has yet been selected, but several manufacturers are
developing new high-power turboshafts for future programmes
which will be considered during
the concept phase. Turbomeca is

already working on its 3,000shp
(2,240kW) Tech 3000 demonstrator, with a first engine run due
later this year.
One feature that has been decided on is a fly-by-wire control
system a first on an Airbus Helicopters civil model. This was selected after an 18-month study,
looking at the experience of similar equipment on the NH Industries NH90 military type and Airbus fixed-wing aircraft.
We came to the conclusion
that fly-by-wire controls make
sense for a heavy helicopter for
the future as it helps to drive

capability and safety, says
Faury.
It will also evaluate different
materials for the X6, says Faury,
and it is not unlikely that it will
have a significant amount of
[composite] in the airframe. He
did, however, rule out the use of
an electric tail rotor, citing power
and reliability requirements. It
is not a realistic option at this
time, he says.
Production of the X6 is likely
to be in parallel with the H225,
which will continue at least for
the next decade and a half.
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132132132
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Paris order bonanza pips Farnborough

Boeing
Airbus
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Despite repeated predictions of slow going, Le Bourget commitments top 1,017 11 more than last years UK air show
irbuss big final-day deal with

Wizz Air, combined with
Boeing adding orders for 17
737-800s and four 737-900ERs
for unidentified customers, took

total order commitments during
the air show both firm and tentative to 1,017.
Despite pre-Paris suggestions
that there would be less business
announced during the show, the
total is 11 more orders than the
number announced at the Farnborough air show last year. The
manufacturers also secured 206
options during Paris two more
than at Farnborough.
Flightglobals Ascend consultancy equates this to over $69 billion in business.
The Wizz deal pushed Airbus
ahead during the week for orders
and options although Boeing
maintains it does not play the air
show numbers game having secured 421 commitments and 110
tentative deals. Boeing disclosed
371 orders during Le Bourget, of
which 40 were options.
Holding sway
Airbus held sway with around
two-thirds of the narrowbody
deals, while Boeing took 77
widebody commitments to 55
from Airbus over the week.
Garuda Indonesia contributed
firm orders for both, signing let-
ters of intent to order 30 787-9s

and 30 A350s it is also taking
up to 30 737 Max 8s. Likewise,
Taiwanese carrier Eva Air added
long-haul aircraft from both airframers, with preliminary deals
for five 777 Freighters and four
additional A330s.
Boeings widebody business
included Volga-Dneprs tentative
deal to acquire another 20 747-8
Freighters for its AirBridge Cargo
division a vital boost for the
flagging programme.
The US manufacturer also disclosed a follow-up order from
Ethiopian Airlines for six 787s,
previously attributed to an unidentified customer. Ethiopian is
to take the six remaining early-
29%
29%
8%
8%
8%
29%
8%
8%
aircraft. At Paris they committed

to 369 aircraft, predominantly
covering Airbus and Boeing narrowbodies.
AerCap signed for 100 Max 8s,
having ordered A320neos at
Farnborough. Another lessor
more for lessors
which had ordered heavily at
Qatar Airways was active again, Farnborough, SMBC Aviation
placing follow-on orders for 10 Capital, came back for more, add777-8Xs and four 777 Freighters. ing a further 10 Max 8s to the 80
Korean Air also ordered a pair of it already had on order, and
GECAS ordered another 60
777-300ERs.
Air Lease added a further Air- A320neo jets.
bus A350-900 the only lessor
Asia was comfortably the most
commitment for widebodies dur- active region, accounting for half
ing the show. However, lease the airline orders during the
firms were again active players, if show. Chinese carrier Ruili Airat lower levels than at Farnbor- lines committed to 30 Max jets
ough, where they signed for 576 with financial support from AVIC
International Leasing.
Hungary
Korean Air placed matching
leading operator countries
26%
deals for 30 Max 8s and 30
Indonesia
A321neos, taking options on a
Hungary
further 20 of both.
South Korea
Indonesian carrier Sriwijaya Air
26%
Indonesiaemerged as the customer behind a
Brazil
two-unit unattributed 737-900ER
15%
order already on the airframers
South Korea
China
books. VietJet Air took six more
A321s, while Peach signed for
14%
Other
Hungary
Brazil
three A320s the Japanese budget carriers first directly pur26% 15%
Indonesia
China
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Airbus also said an undisSouth Korea
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Bombardier says
more to come on
CSeries fuel burn
Airframer hints at further package of improvements after
revealing types brochure-beating performance metrics
ombardier is aiming to build

on the better than brochure
CSeries performance disclosed at
the show by delivering a further
4% gain in 2018 through a package of improvements currently in
development.
With the CS100 and CS300
making their air show debuts at
Paris, Bombardier confirms that,
thanks to lower airframe drag, the
CSeries has exceeded brochure
promises in terms of fuel burn.
This has resulted in a 350nm
(650km) increase in range for the
larger CS300 variant and a
250nm improvement for the
CS100. The improvements deliver a range of up to 3,300nm.
Fuel burn is already 1% better than brochure, and theres
more to come, says Robert
Dewar, CSeries vice-president at
Bombardiers commercial aircraft

division. We have the opportunities to increase by another 4%
through a combination of the engine and the aerodynamic airframe side.
Dewar tells Flight International that the upgrade package is
still being planned and Bombardier needs to complete a miniconceptual design phase with
suppliers before committing to
the exact gains it will deliver.
half and half

The improvements will come
roughly half/half between the
engine and the airframe a little
bit more on the aircraft side,
Dewar says.
Its kinda normal things aero
clean-up, bigger winglets and
some other performance im-
Dewar says the manufacturer

originally took a conservative
approach to its CSeries perfor
mance claims, as there was a lot
of technology risk at the
beginning of the development
programme.
provements that we dont want to

share, he adds. The objective
is for most or all the package to be
retrofitable, adds Dewar. It will
be a big percentage.
With regards to the initial aircraft being ahead of targets,
evaluation
Development programme on track as certification testing passes 70% mark
Dewar: twinjet will be

put through 300h of
route-proving trials
says Bombardier. A sixth example
will join the programme in October,
equipped with a furnished cabin and
a light level of instrumentation. This
will be the first production airframe
and tasked with the function and
reliability (F&R) test programme
ahead of service entry next summer.
Weve successfully completed all
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Flight testing of the Bombardier

CSeries is entering the final phase,
with around two-thirds of the programme now completed. The
Canadian manufacturer will run a
conservative CSeries service-readiness schedule comprising 600 flight
hours ahead of the CS100s debut
with launch operator Swiss
International Air Lines in mid-2016.
Robert Dewar, CSeries vice-president at Bombardiers commercial
aircraft division, says that over 70%
of the CS100s certification test programme is completed. Its all on
track, he says.
There are currently five CS100s
and a single CS300 in the flight-test
programme. The former have completed over 1,700 flight hours, while
the latter has flown 150h.
The CS100 has completed over
65% of the planned flying hours,
the significant deterministic and

higher-risk tests, says Dewar.
Testing of the CSeriess fly-by-wire
flight controls is progressing well,
with evaluation of the system in direct mode now completed. Weve
done about 80% of the normal-mode
tests. We have about another six
weeks of validation tests to com-
plete, he says. In the test programme we do software upgrades,

and were now loading the actual EIS
software that will be delivered.
Bombardier expects the CS100
to be certificated by year-end, with
the CS300 following approximately
six months later.
The CS100 is set to make its
service debut with launch operator
Swiss around six months after certification, but the interval for the
CS300 should be shorter, says
Dewar. There will be less work to do
for example, it will not need to operate the same amount of F&R. The
time between certification and EIS
will be determined by the CS300
launch operator. This was confirmed
at the show as being Air Baltic.
Dewar says the F&R programme
will begin with Bombardier and then
transition into operations evaluation
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Swiss considering
CSeries fleet mix
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The CS300
performed daily
flying displays
at Le Bourget
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Larger variant
possible when
time is right
He points to its all-new design,

carbonfibre wing and unproven
PW1500G geared turbofan engines from Pratt & Whitney.
Its a combination of structural performance we have lots of
available fuel volume available in
the wing and lower drag, says

Dewar. The engine is on spec
and the aircraft has around 1%
lower drag.
Dewar declines to reveal the
CSeries empty weight, but
describes the developmental
aircrafts weight as being in

good numbers.
He attributes the CS300s greater range gain to the fact that its
development
followed
the
CS100, so there was some learning in there we could use.
testing in the first quarter of 2016.

Swiss will participate along with the
three certificating authorities
Transport Canada, the US Federal
Aviation Administration and the
European Aviation Safety Agency.
For F&R were flying 150h, and
another 150h on the ops eval, says
Dewar. And weve decided to do
another 300h of route-proving and
maturing the aircraft so that any
learnings, we get ourselves [ahead
of entry into service].
The F&R programme will initially
be flown from Bombardiers Mirabel
Weve successfully
completed all
the significant
deterministic and
higher-risk tests
we can shake it down with them,

adds Dewar.
Meanwhile, Bombardier will begin
CSeries ETOPS approval flights after
the F&R and operations evaluation
programme is completed in the first
quarter of 2016.
Were certifying at 90min ETOPS
out of the box, and 120min one year
after EIS, so we can build on maturity on the engines, the aircraft, etc,
he says. And the operator has
some work to do also to get their
own certification from an operational
point of view.
Robert Dewar
CSeries vice-president, Bombardier
plant in Montreal and will then move

to Europe in order to incorporate
route-proving efforts. Some routeproving will be flown with Swiss so
cseries flight-test fleet status

CS100
MSN
Flights
Hours
Tasks
5001
157
492
Flutter, handling,
fly-by-wire
CS300
5002
131
443
Powerplant,
systems
5003
99
333
Avionics,
electrical
5004
116
386
Performance
5005
20
69
Cabin
Total
523
1,723
5501
Grand total
46
569
146
1,869
Flutter, handling,
systems
Notes: Second CS300 MSN 5502 to fly performance and cabin tests. Data correct as of 13 June 2015. Source: Bombardier
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Bombardier continues to consider developing a third, larger member of the CSeries

family, though the Canadian
manufacturers prime focus
remains certification of the
CS100 and CS300 variants.
In a presentation at the
show, Bombardier disclosed
that the CSeries had
growth potential from
2020 and beyond. Colin
Bole, newly-appointed senior
vice-president of sales and
asset management at its
commercial aircraft division,
confirms that the company
is examining ways to develop the family.
[A larger variant] is
something we will continue
to discuss, [and] when the
time is right, we will consider
the next opportunities, he
says. We are always looking
at opportunities to develop
the family.
Boles comments came
shortly after the Wall Street
Journal reported that
Bombardier had re-registered
the trademark CS500, which
would presumably be the
designation of a larger
variant. But while such a
model could eventually be on
the cards, Bole says
Bombardier must first complete flight testing of its
CS100 and CS300, and ensure that those aircraft enter
service smoothly.
With CSeries firm orders
standing at 243, Bombardier
has not yet reached a goal of
300 by service-entry, which is
due in the middle of 2016.
We are focused right
now on the development,
certification and entry into
service of the CS100 and
CS300, and that is taking a
significant amount of our
time, Bole says. We want
to make sure that is successful and that we have a
proven platform.
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Swiss considering CSeries fleet mix

Launch operator to initially take equal number of both variants, but is still undecided on remaining 10 firm orders
s CSeries CS100 launch operator Swiss International Air
Lines prepares to introduce the
Bombardier twinjet in mid-2016,
it has adapted its order to include
10 of the larger CS300 variant.
The original 30-unit purchase
agreement for 30 CS100s plus 30
options, signed by Swiss parent
Lufthansa, was disclosed in 2009
following an initial commitment
when Bombardier launched the
programme at the Farnborough
air show in July 2008.
Bombardier showcased its fifth
flight-test aircraft in Swiss livery
at the show, ahead of a two-day
visit to the airlines Zurich base
on 17 and 18 June.
The Swiss carrier will now
take at least 10 of the orders as the
CS300, with deliveries to begin in
2017, chief executive Harry
Hohmeister disclosed at the
show. This will come after the delivery of an initial 10 CS100s
from the first half of next year.
For the remaining 10 aircraft to
be delivered in 2018 Swiss is
evaluating a mix of CS100s and
CS300s, Hohmeister says.
With both versions of the
new CSeries family of aircraft in
our ranks, we can be highly flex-
Bombardier
Bombardiers CS100 made its Paris debut before departing for an event in Zurich, Switzerland
ible in tailoring capacity to demand on our European routes,
says Hohmeister.
He indicates that there are no
plans currently to firm up Lufthansa groups 30 options. We
will stay with 30 confirmed orders, he says.
With initial Swiss deliveries

due to start next year, the carrier
has disclosed that its CS100s will
be equipped with a 125-seat interior with 25 rows of slimline, Zim
Flugsitz-designed seats at 30in
(76cm) pitch, five-abreast. However, part of the cabin will be sold
markets
Bombardier sees lessors as key to unlock Chinas potential

Bombardier sees Chinese lessors as
a good entry point into the nations
booming market, where the firm has
so far found limited success.
Colin Bole, senior vice-president of
sales and asset management at
Bombardiers commercial aircraft
division, tells Flight International that
the airframer is in discussions with
various Chinese lessors, including
BOC Aviation, on the CSeries, and
that there has been genuine interest.
Chinese lessors have natural
advantages in terms of leasing to
China on withholding tax and using
the free-trade-zone opportunities,
he says. Chinese domestic lessors
have an advantage over non-Chinese lessors.
Thats just talking about economics. Obviously there are synergies,

relationships between Chinese airlines and lessors which cannot be
underestimated.
Bole says Bombardier is aiming to
capture half of the demand on new
aircraft in the 60- to 150-seat segment globally. In its 20-year market
forecast, the firm predicts China will
be the second-largest driver for demand for new aircraft in both the 60100 and 100-150 seat segments.
China having its own aircraft manufacturer, however, impacts how much
of the market Bombardier will be able
to capture with its range of products,
says Bole. Bombardier also sees a
need for more education on the po-
tential of turboprops in China, and to

promote large variants.
The Dash 8 Q400 can bring improvements in terms of efficiency and
ability to develop those regional airports, particularly in western China.
We need to work on it, and its not
going to happen overnight, he adds.
Asked about the possibility of
setting up a local production line,
The Canadian airframer says a large
amount of manufacturing for the
Q400 and CSeries is already being
done in China.
I would say, to be very successful in China, co-operation is key... but
does it necessarily mean setting up
a production line? Im not sure,
says Bole.
as business class.
We will have a flexible curtain
[to denote the premium cabin]
with the next seat empty so every
business-class passenger is next to
a free seat, says Hohmeister.
As it begins its CSeries readiness after disclosing that it had
agreed to become launch operator earlier this year, the airline
conducted an initial pilot-familiarisation programme at the manufacturers facility in Montreal
during May with 12 pilots. The
activity also included maintenance and operational staff.
The project comprised simulator flights and familiarisation
with CSeries systems in classroom-based training and on test
aircraft in the production facility.
This has enabled Swiss to develop its own training programme at its
Zurich base and design operating
manuals for the twinjet. Aside from
a full-flight simulator, the airline
will employ a cabin-emergency
training device at its base.
With certification of the CS100
targeted by year-end, Swiss aims
to introduce the twinjet in mid2016, says Hohmeister.
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Boeing mulls middle of the

market concept for new jet
The only 757 on

display at Paris
was Honeywells
flying testbed
Airbus snubs sector that might hardly exist as rival details research into potential aircraft
aving convinced itself the
gap between the 737 Max
and the 787-8 is wide enough to
one day launch a challenging,
multi-billion dollar development
programme, Boeing commandeered the global stage at the
show partly in an effort to persuade everyone else.
A nearly year-long canvas of
potential customers produced a
set of basic characteristics for the
new aircraft. According to Boeing, the consensus view is for an
aircraft with 20% more seats and
range than a 757-200, which
combines the seat-mile costs of
the 737 Max yet still offers greater comfort in the passenger
cabin.
If looked upon as a replacement for all models of the 757
and the 767-200, Boeings internal analysis suggests such a
middle of the market aircraft
concept, or MOM, should outsell both of them combined.
The growth of overall passenger traffic should add to the total
of nearly 1,200 sales achieved by
both programmes, according to
an industry source familiar with
Boeings analysis.
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We havent said we
are going to do it. But
we know there is a
marketplace there
Ray Conner
CEO, Boeing Commercial Aircraft
Its a relatively nice-sized

market, says Ray Conner, chief
executive and president of Boeing Commercial Aircraft. Now
its a matter of going back and
doing your homework and seeing
if you can actually do that.
That step translating a market survey into a real business

case involves several complications. If Boeing ever launches a
development programme, it will
need to sell it to customers. But
first the company needs to sell it
to a supply chain that likely will
be invited to invest billions of
dollars in risk-sharing deals to
help develop the new aircraft.
Boeing also must overcome a
new campaign by Airbus aimed
at raising doubts about the need
and feasibility of such a project.
Some would say that Boeings
announcements are timed to deflect the questions being asked
about the competitiveness of their
current products, Airbus says.
capability space
The capability space between the
737 Max 9 and the 787-8 is already occupied by two Airbus
types the re-engined A321neo
LR and the A330neo.
Combined they dont leave
much of a market between them
in which to place a new product,
and who would invest several
billions to fill a market that might
hardly exist? asks Airbus.
Conner acknowledges that no

decisions have yet been made,
but the companys interests in
pursuing the MOM concept are
sincere. We havent said we are
going to do it. But we know there
is a marketplace there. Now its a
matter of executing, he says.
For Boeing, the industrys
three major engine manufacturers are the most critical audience
development
Designers still have room to manoeuvre despite ban on moonshot projects

Boeings corporate ban on moonshot commercial projects still
leaves plenty of space for its aircraft
designers to innovate but not too
much.
That seemed to be the Paris air
show theme delivered by Mike
Sinnett, Boeings vice-president of
product development, as the airframer publicly muses over plans for
a new middle of the market aircraft concept.
In May 2014, Boeing chief executive Jim McNerney famously banned
the commercial aircraft division from
pursuing moonshot projects like
the 787, a clean-sheet aircraft de-
sign that entered service 3.5 years

late and billions in the red.
But that does not mean the manufacturer has lost its appetite for
launching all-new aircraft, Sinnett
says. Indeed, Sinnett displayed a
concept for a roughly 737-sized
truss-braced wing aircraft. Such a
design enables a step change in
aerodynamic efficiency. The 787
entered service with a wing aspect
ratio of 11, a record for a modern
airliner. A truss-braced wing can provide an aspect ratio of 15 or 16,
Sinnett says.
Just because an airplane is a
different configuration, that doesnt
necessarily make it a moonshot,

Sinnett says.
Its innovative, but its not necessarily technologically risky.
That does not mean Boeing plans
to start developing a truss-braced
wing as the manufacturers next air-
Just because an
airplane is a different
configuration, that
doesnt necessarily
make it a moonshot
Mike Sinnett
VP product development, Boeing
craft-development project. When I

look at all the competing requirements right now, its not clear to me
that any configuration besides the
typical configuration that we all know
and love would meet the
combination of requirements from
the customers over the near term,
he says.
But the new development project
also cannot resemble what made
the 787 development strategy
qualify for McNerneys moonshot
putdown.
When I think of what made the
787 a moonshot, it was like this:
we were going for everything as
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he says, adding: Its not a decision for today.

But commercial aircraft development timelines suggest that
Boeing must still move within
the next few years to meet even
Woods forecast. It took Boeing
eight years to introduce the companys last new clean-sheet design with the 787-8. By that
standard, a service entry in 2025
would require a programme
launch in 2017.
That timeline fits within a window described by P&Ws Adams,
who thinks such an aircraft could
be introduced between 2023 and
2028. I think its something that
will evolve over the next year or
18 months, he says.
much possible fuel burn [reduction]

as we could get, as much maintenance cost reduction as we could
get, as much comfort in the cabin
as we could get, trying to optimise
a production system and partners
in the world in ways weve never
done before, Sinnett recalls. We
even invented a new airplane to
carry the parts around the world,
and we did that in the middle of the
programme.
So when Jim says moonshots,
how I think about that and how I instill that into what I do on a daily basis is, its not dont innovate, he
adds, but dont innovate on the
critical path of the programme and
put the programme at risk.
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new engine with a rating between

40,000lb-thrust (178kN) and
50,000lb-thrust, which his counterpart at Pratt & Whitney, Paul
Adams, does not dispute. That
thrust range requires a new engine
development programme with an
at least billion-dollar price tag.
None of the three potential engine suppliers also including
Rolls-Royce are ready to pass
judgment on Boeings confidence

about the potential size of the
market for the possible aircraft.
I havent looked at it enough to
give you an answer, Joyce says.
Tony Wood, president of R-Rs
aerospace business, agrees. I
suspect between 2025 to 2030 is
the earliest that this aircraft requirement, whatever it will be,
for a refreshment comes along,
The Dreamliner entered service 3.5

years late and billions in the red
Airbus
to persuade. While a selection

could mean billions of dollars of
sales on a new programme that
could last decades in production,
it comes with a hefty upfront development bill to certificate a
new engine.
Reusing an off-the-shelf engine
will not be possible. GE Aviation
chief executive David Joyce says
such an aircraft would need a
engine choice
Another complication will be deciding whether Boeing should
offer customers a choice of engines for any future MOM aircraft. Adams says that decision
should be a function of how big
that market is. But Conner is
open to considering most airlines preference for competitive
engine options. Boeing offered
only one engine for the 737 Max
and 777X, partly because each
was a derivative of a single-engine product line.
Now as we look at new products well probably maybe take a
different approach, Conner says.
It has been 12 years since Boeing launched an all-new aircraft.
In the interim, it and Airbus have
built a massive backlog of nearly
12,000 orders, while launching a
host of development products
with new major derivatives. Delivering on all of those commitments over the next five years
represents a historic challenge for
the entire industry. As Boeing attempts to recruit a supply chain
for a possible new development
programme, it may struggle to
find takers.
My focus is just executing and
delivering what we have already
committed to, says GEs Joyce.
We have a huge, huge, huge execution challenge ahead of us. We
certainly are working with both
companies to look at the middle of
the market, but my primary focus
is just executing the engines were
already working on.
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Jackson believes
around 500 units
could be sold
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GTF eyed by Turkish regional jet firm

328 Group suggests its clean-sheet platform could be next programme to utilise Pratt & Whitney geared-fan engines
lans for regional aircraft development and production

in Turkey have been laid out by
328 Group, including the likely
selection of engine suppliers and
a first tentative order for 50 jets.
Disclosed in late May, the new
programmes the 32-seat T328
and TRJ328 are based, respectively, on the existing Dornier
328 turboprop and jet aircraft, for
which 328 Group holds the intellectual property. Delivery of the
first modernised examples of the
legacy types is due in 2018.
One of two further clean-sheet,
50-70-seat designs the jet-powered TRJ628 and TR628 turboprop is scheduled to perform its
first flight in 2023.
The development is part of a
memorandum of understanding
signed by 328s parent Sierra Nevada and the Turkish government, alongside local manufacturing partner STM.
Speaking to Flight International at the show, 328 Group
managing director Dave Jackson
confirmed talks with Pratt &
Whitney Canada to supply its
2,500shp-class PW127 turboprop and the latest variant of its

PW306B engines for the two updated aircraft. The new turboprop powerplants raise maximum take-off weight by 1.5t to
15.6t.
In addition, discussions are
ongoing with avionics suppliers
Honeywell and Rockwell Collins
over the integration of a glass
cockpit for the types.
The changes, says Jackson,
will future-proof these aircraft
for the next 30-40 years.
An initial tentative commitment for 50 examples of the jet
variant has been struck with the
Turkish government, he says.
Talks are also ongoing with potential customers for the turboprop, he adds.
These will be assembled at a
Turkish facility to be set up in
the next 18 to 24 months, with a
production rate of around 30 aircraft per year.
Further ahead, it is hoping to
select Pratt & Whitney to provide
geared turbofan engines in a
similar thrust class to the
15,000lb-thrust PW1200Gs powering the Mitsubishi Regional Jet

for the TRJ628 and PW127s for
the turboprop.
The latter models will feature
an all-new, part-composite fuselage and optimised wing, with
the engines the only difference
between them. This should simplify the production process,
says Jackson.
An initial tentative
commitment for 50
examples has been
place by Ankara
Although the market for 50seat types has dwindled in recent
years, Jackson points to the number of aircraft in the segment that
are still in operation around
5,000 as a sign that there is still
a requirement for models with
that seating capacity.
Those aircraft continue to be
operated because theres a need
and a niche for them, but theres
not an obvious replacement

for airlines.
When you see 50-seat jets
phased out, it is because they
have reached the end of their
lives rather than because they are
no longer required, he says.
All models will be certificated
by the US Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency from the outset, says Jackson.
However, he sees additional
markets in the developing world
or for special-mission operations,
where an ability to operate from
unpaved strips is key. The US
Special Operations Command already utilises a number of the 328
turboprops, which it designates
as the C-146 Wolfhound.
We have already had some interest from the Turkish military
for different variants of the [new]
aircraft, says Jackson.
Overall, Jackson believes orders can be secured for around
250 examples of both the modernised and clean-sheet developments, with a healthy mix of
turboprop and jet variants.
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as backlog stabilises
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DEVELOPMENT
Positive tales put Scorpion under order spotlight

T
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extron AirLands Scorpion

made its debut Paris appearance, as the company cites high
potential demand for the type.
Exhibited in a twin-payload
configuration combining an L-3
Wescam MX-15 electro-optical/
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PROGRAMME
Super Hornet
production still
has years left
infrared sensor and a recently-installed Thales I-Master synthetic

aperture radar/ground moving
target indicator, the Scorpion
made its appearance a little over
a month after the multi-role design was put through its paces for
an undisclosed potential customer in Latin America.
We flew six experienced
combat pilots, and they were
very impressed, says Textron
AirLand president Bill Anderson of the latter visit, which social media postings indicate was
made to Colombia.
The aircraft will be staying in
Europe after the show, before attending the Royal International

Air Tattoo in the UK in mid-July.
Prior to this, the jet will visit several European nations to demonstrate its capabilities. Anderson
confirms this will include performing demonstrations for the
UK Royal Navy, for applications
ranging from maritime patrol to
adversary training.
Weapons testing is also expected to get under way later
this year.
Sales discussions also are ongoing with several potential
buyers. Anderson says three na-
tions are beyond initial interest, while one in the Pacific

region is poised to issue a request for proposals.
Anderson says work on a first
production-representative Scorpion will start in the fall, with
the aircraft to fly early next year.
We could start delivering airplanes in 2016 if we know soon,
he adds.
More than 400 flight hours
have now been accumulated
with the demonstrator. The
good news is its hugely reliable,
he says, citing an availability rate
of more than 98%.
Pakistans air
force brought
three examples
to the show
oeing is upbeat about the

chances of F/A-18E/F Super
Hornet production continuing
through 2019, with all four US
congressional defence committees
having approved the production
of an additional 12 aircraft.
I think the fact they all marked
gives us some confidence there
will be another tranche of F/A-18s
added to the US Navy, says vicepresident of business development and strategy Christopher
Raymond. We see the potential
for an international order too, and
that should extend things out
through to at least 2019.
Raymond says comments by the
US chief of naval operations that
the service is two or three squadrons short of fighter-attack aircraft
due to operational tempo suggest a
potential requirement for at least
24 or 36 airplanes. The Pentagon
is also looking at its EA-18G
Growler mix, and whether it
should have five or eight aircraft
per squadron for electronic attack.
The company also is anticipating a decision by Denmark
later this year on whether to replace its Lockheed Martin F-16s
with the F-35, Super Hornet or
Eurofighter Typhoon.
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Export deal for JF-17 struck

with unnamed Asian nation
Thunder shows off capabilities in shows flying display as first overseas sale is secured
he Chengdu/Pakistan Aeronautical Complex JF-17 Thunder fighter has secured its first
export deal.
A contract has been signed
with an Asian country, says
Air Cdre Khalid Mahmood, the
Pakistan air force officer who
leads sales and marketing efforts for the type. He declines to
identify the customer or the
number of aircraft involved, but
says deliveries are due to start
in 2017.
Pakistans air force brought
three examples of the JF-17 to
Paris, with one participating in

the flying display.
Khalid says 11 countries are
looking at the type, which is also
marketed by Chinese defence export agency Catic.
Pakistans air force has received 54 JF-17s so far, the first 50
of which were originally in a
Block I configuration. These are
in the process of being updated to
a Block II standard, which features improved avionics and software, and adds a fixed air-to-air
refuelling probe.
An additional 46 aircraft will
be delivered in this standard,

while 50 more will be delivered
in a Block III configuration by the
end of 2018.
Specifications for this standard
are still being defined, but could
include a passive or active electronically scanned array radar, an
infrared search and track sensor,
additional
precision-guided
weapons and the ability to carry
sensor pods.
A two-seat variant of the Klimov RD-93-engined type is also
planned, which will serve mainly as a trainer.
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Bell sees plenty

of life left in V-22
ell Helicopter is confident

that production of the V-22
Osprey tiltrotor will extend well
into the mid-2020s, despite output falling this year to 21 aircraft
from 2014s high of 37 units.
Produced in partnership with
Boeing, the Osprey has so far secured only the US Marine Corps
and US Air Force as customers.
The programme entered into its
second multi-year contract with
Washington late last year, guaranteeing production until 2020.
However, Bell chief executive
John Garrison believes further
domestic deals the US Navy intends to buy up to 44 V-22s for its
carrier onboard delivery requirement allied to export orders,
will secure the programme well
into the middle of next decade.
The USN order, which would
be contracted in the next 18
months, and see deliveries running from 2020 to 2025, should
form the backbone of a third US
multi-year deal, says Garrison.
Japan is likely to be the initial
overseas customer, and plans to
acquire up to 17 of the tilitrotors
via the foreign military sales route.
If confirmed, deliveries of the first
tranche of five would begin in
2018.
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NH Industries seeking new

orders as backlog stabilises
Consortium also pledges to raise level of operator support to drive helicopter availability
H Industries (NHI) believes it

could capture as many as 100
additional commitments for its
NH90 11t-class military rotorcraft, with France and Qatar leading the charge for new orders.
If it secures deals for a full 100
extra helicopters then it would
push the programme over the
600-unit mark, with the current
order total standing at 509.
That figure reflects for the first
time a raft of recent contract modifications which has seen Portugal cancel all 10 of the TTH troop
transport variants it had on order,
Spain dramatically cut its
45-strong commitment of TTHs
to 22, and Germany in a change
that was finally ratified in the
run-up to Paris cancel 40 transports and placed a firm order for
18 NFH naval models with options for a further 22 examples.
Now Im in a situation where
509 is clearly the actual number
ordered, says Vincent Dubrule,
president of NHI, a joint venture
between Airbus Helicopters,
AgustaWestland and Fokker. So
now I expect only plusses.
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France is looking to acquire additional troop transport NH90s

Those additions are likely to
come from France, which has
given preliminary approval for
six more TTHs, and Qatar which
has provisionally agreed to acquire 16 helicopters an equal
split of both variants with six
more on option which Dubrule
hopes to finalise shortly.
Further ahead, NHI sees
other current customers returning for top-up orders, such as
Norway, which has issued a request for information for nine
aircraft for use by special forces
personnel, alongside new operators of the type.

However, Dubrule insists that
he is not solely focussed on fresh
business. I have 13 current customers and I want to help them
and support them. I want to help
them deploying, which will then
help my future sales.
Dubrule says NHI is continuing
to work through issues encountered by its operator base corrosion problems on the naval variant,
for example in order to improve
customer satisfaction.
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Boeing looks to fill empty Chinook production slots

oeing is searching for about
35 CH-47F Chinook sales to
fill the open production slots remaining on its second multi-year
procurement contract with the
US Army.
Awarded in 2013, the deal secures 155 of the heavy-lift helicopters for the service, and 60 options were included to support
foreign military sales (FMS) deal.
Just 25 of those had been taken
up by the end of May, and the US
Department of Defenses display
of the latest F-model CH-47 at
Paris was clearly an attempt to
drum up more business
Randy Rotte, Boeings cargo
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The US Department of Defense had the F-model CH-47 on display

helicopter business development
director, says the lead time is
now around 36 months from an
initial contract award.
He points out that the options

could be used to fulfil overseas
sales or for the army. It could be
FMS, it could be wartime
replacement aircraft, he says.

Chinook production is currently
configured to build five aircraft per
month, and the final delivery to the
service under the present multiyear contract is scheduled for November 2019. Thirty-six per year
is our lowest number if no other
sales come in, Rotte says.
Boeing also manufactures the
extended-range MH-47G for US
special operations forces and is
presently working on the design
of a Block II model. The airframer
is also confident that the US
Army will sign for a third multiyear purchase once the current
contract expires.
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Reborn A320 P2F scheme

adopts pragmatic strategy
ST Aerospaces Serh
Ghee Lim says the
company expects to
spend nine months
developing a prototype
Airbus and ST Aerospace resurrect mothballed narrowbody freighter conversion programme
our years after scrapping an

Airbus A320 passenger-tofreighter conversion programme,
Airbus and ST Aerospace are resurrecting the scheme with a simpler design.
The partnership aims to
pursue the Boeing 757 freighter
replacement market and believes
there is demand for some 600
conversions to the A320P2F and
A321P2F over the next two
decades.
ST Aerospace will lead the
programme and expects to deliver the first aircraft in 2018 al-
Russias United Aircraft and

Irkut. Lessor AerCap had been in
line to provide a batch of A320s
for modification.
But after a series of delays the
plan was cancelled in 2011 and
the joint venture broken up.
Airbus attributed the decision to
demand for the passenger version
and an absence of suitable
feed-stock.
Airbus and ST Aerospaces
revived effort will be founded on
a simpler aircraft design, to avoid
complications with the previous
model.
The most notable change is the
relocation of the 142in x 87in
(360cm x 221cm) main cargo
door, previously located aft, to
the more conventional forward
fuselage position.
Modifications will also include reinforcement of the floor
grid, deactivation of the rear passenger doors, and fitting of a 9g
cargo barrier.
though it has not confirmed a

launch customer.
Fitted with a Class E cargo
compartment, the A321P2F
would have a main-deck capacity
for 13.5 containers, with an overall payload of 27t and a range of
1,900nm
(3,520km).
The
A320P2F, with a range of
2,100nm, will be able to take 10.5
containers on the main deck and
carry 21t in total.
The airframer, along with conversion specialist EFW, had previously developed a passengerto-freighter programme with
orders
Saudia first in line for regional A330

Saudia is already an A330 customer, having previously ordered
eight Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered
A330-300s in mid-2008 and another four in mid-2011. No engine
selections have been given for the
regional A330s.
The airline is preparing to increase its fleet as part of a 20152020 strategic plan, but has
released few details of the specific
types under consideration.
However, the airlines A330 commitment also includes 30 more
A320s.
Airbus had expected the regional
A330 to enter service in 2015.
Saudias decision will give a
much-needed lift to A330 production
which is already due to undergo a
rate cut in the transition period to
delivery of the first re-engined
A330neo in 2017.
Airbus
Saudi Arabian flag carrier Saudia is

committing to 20 of the regional
version of the Airbus A330-300, becoming the first customer to emerge
for the variant nearly two years after
its unveiling.
The lower-weight model is aimed
at short routes up to 3,000nm
(5,560km). This range saving enables the maximum take-off weight to
be trimmed to 200t, while the passenger cabin accommodation is increased to a higher-density layout
capable of featuring 400 seats.
Saudia has not detailed the intended configuration of the regional
A330. But director general Saleh bin
Nasser Al-Jasser says that the
unique flexibility of the aircraft, and
its high capacity, will allow the airline to expand its domestic and regional network. Neither Airbus nor
Saudia has disclosed a delivery date.
Twinjets unique flexibility was key to deal, says airlines chief

Over-designed
Airbus chief operating officer
Tom Williams says that the abandoned A320P2F had been an
over-designed solution.
If wed gone to completion, it
would have been the most wonderful P2F programme you could
have imagined, he says, except
in one crucial respect. Who was
going to buy it?
He says the attempt to develop
an aircraft to address every
corner point of the market the
reason for placing the freight
door in the rear fuselage was a
strategic flaw.
While Airbus was convinced that the door needed to
be aft-mounted, Williams says
the design had to account for
structural loading, particularly
from the empennage, in the rear
fuselage section 18.
The door became a load-carrying member, he says, adding
that customers were expressing
concern over the risk of damage

to the tail section from loading
vehicles.
Airbus has revised the strategy
to adopt a more pragmatic approach in co-operation with ST
Aerospace.
Williams says the updated
A320P2F is not intended to address every market scenario
such as carriage of unusuallylarge equipment and, as a
result, can be developed as a simpler airframe.
Airbus will effectively become
a junior partner to ST Aerospace on the programme, he says,
with the airframer concentrating
on matters such as sourcing of
feed-stock and using its resources
to trace and assess the effect of
any prior modification of the aircraft during passenger service.
While a number of A320 conversion
programmes
have
emerged since the collapse of the
Russian-backed venture, the ST
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ST Aerospace has
access to facilities
in several locations
including China,
Singapore, Germany
and the USA
Airbus
Wed definitely accommodate

the customers preference, says
ST president Serh Ghee Lim. He
says the company expects to
spend nine months developing a
prototype but production aircraft
will be converted in three.
Aerospace scheme is the only

one to have the airframers formal
support.
Airbus is more confident over
the supply of affordable feedstock. Williams says there are
plenty of airframes slipping
into the conversion window.
Between 2017 and 2028, the airframer estimates, the number of

suitable aircraft those aged
around 15-20 years will treble
to some 1,700 A320s and 450
A321s, providing a rich source of
potential jets for modification.
We think we come into the
sweet spot in terms of timing,

says Williams.
ST Aerospace has access to facilities in several locations including China, Singapore, Germany and the USA and conversions
would ideally be carried out
where the feed-stocks are.
collaboration
ST Aerospace is to increase its
shareholding in Dresden-based
conversion specialist EFW by
20%, to a total of 55%, as part of
the effort.
Lim says: ST Aerospace is
pleased to include this new collaboration which will extend our
conversion portfolio and enhance our value-added proposition to customers.
EFW chief Andreas Sperl insists there are a number of parties
interested in the programme and
that, following the launch of the
scheme, the partners will start
discussions to cement initial
conversion agreements.
Sperl says the programme will
complement Airbuss new-build
A330-200F as well as the partners
A330P2F conversion scheme,
launched in 2012.
He adds: We think we have a
real family, which gives us a big
impact in the market.
Airbus pitches a little stretch for superjumbo to swell operator interest

Airbus has strongly hinted that it
is considering a moderate stretch
of the A380 as part of a modernisation package tied to a potential
engine upgrade on the type.
While the notion is only preliminary, the airframer has been gauging interest from possible
customers.
Airbus had originally intended
to stretch the A380-800 to a proposed -900, a version which
would make better use of the
-800s wing, but with the A380
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experiencing slack sales, and with

other aircraft programmes taking
priority, the -900 has long been
relegated only to a future initiative.
However, Airbus chief operating
officer for customers John Leahy
while unveiling the companys
global market forecast at the
show indicated that a revised
stretch proposal was being floated to customers.
He says that the airframer is
discussing a little stretch with
some operators.
The possible dimensions of

such an aircraft have not yet been
disclosed, however.
revised
But Leahy tells Flight International
that while the A380-900 would
have raised the capacity of the
baseline A380 by some 100
seats, the revised stretch would
be about half that.
He says that the timeframe for
such a development would be
around 2020. If the proposal be-
came firmer, he says, wed probably still call it the -900.

Airbus chief executive Fabrice
Bregier cautions that the proposal
is still at an early stage, the subject of studies, and that it would
be premature to suggest it will
evolve into a formal programme.
While Emirates has strongly
backed a re-engining effort for the
A380, Leahy discloses that the
airframer is talking to at least
half-a-dozen possible customers
for such an initiative.
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French faith lifts weight from Atlas

Troubled tactical transport receives boost as lead customer re-affirms confidence in A400M with load-carrying demos
rance has demonstrated the
load-carrying credentials of
its A400M tactical transport, as it
prepares to take delivery of a seventh example from Airbus in the
coming days.
Weighing in at 29t, a VBCI armoured vehicle used everywhere by the nations army
was loaded on to the French air
forces lead aircraft in the static
display. A growth version tipping
32t is to come soon.
Defence minister Jean-Yves Le
Drian opted to keep the nations
A400Ms in operational use following a fatal accident involving
the type in Spain on 9 May. Its
fleet has logged more than 150
flight hours since then, in locations including Africa and the
Middle East.
We have full confidence in
the aircraft, and the way we have
operated since the accident
shows our faith, says Frances
programme manager for the
A400M, who declines to be
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The 29t VBCI was loaded into the cargo hold on the static line
named. The acceptance process
for its next example has been
completed, with the airlifter
ready to go, he adds.
During the show, the UK Royal
Air Force announced that it had
cleared its current two Atlas airlifters to resume training flights
with immediate effect.
Having undertaken and completed a series of thorough checks

on the UKs A400M aircraft and
how it is operated, the RAF is satisfied that the additional processes and procedures introduced
means it is now safe to resume
flying, the service says. RAF use
of the type had been paused since
programmes
Antonov quietly details new transport

U
Lockheed Martin C-130J and

Boeing C-17, he says, with a
maximum take-off weight of 140t
and a payload of 40t. It would
also be able to operate from unpaved airstrips, he says.
Images displayed at the event
showed an aircraft with four jet
engines. These, along with the
developments avionics and sys-
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kraines Antonov has quietly

launched a new programme
for a jet-powered military and
civil transport.
Speaking at the show, chief designer Dymitry Kiva identified
the new type as the An-188, and
as being a turbofan-engined variant of the An-70 propfan. In size
terms it will sit between the
Ukrainian airframer displayed grey colour scheme on An-178

tems, would be a mixture of

Ukrainian and Western products, says Kiva, without identifying which powerplants the
An-188 would use.
The company also has not
disclosed a potential date for
service entry.
Antonov, which brought its
newest aircraft the An-178, first
flown in May and sporting a new
grey colour scheme to Le Bourget, is also under new ownership, having been recently transferred to the nations export sales
agency Ukroboronprom.
This, says the latters director
general Roman Romanov, will aid
Antonovs ambition to become a
world leader in aerospace.
The business will now be split
into two parts: the Antonov
design bureau and a manage
ment company.
the crash, which killed four Airbus flight-test personnel.

Ground-based training and
simulator-based instruction had
been performed at its Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire during
this period.
Fellow operator the German
air force says it expects to resume
operations with its current one
A400M in the coming weeks,
once it has performed software
checks on the aircraft.
Commenting in Flight Daily
News, Airbus Defence & Spaces
executive vice-president for military aircraft Fernando Alonso
noted: Were encouraged by the
reaction of our customers and
prospects, who have reacted
calmly and are not tearing up
their orders or their RFPs [requests for proposal].
Meanwhile, the company has
announced a four-aircraft order
from Saudi Arabias interior ministry for its C295W medium
transport.
acquisitions
Qatar doubles
C-17 fleet with
four-unit deal
atar is to boost its fleet of C-17

strategic transports to a total
of eight aircraft, Boeing confirmed at the show.
The Qatar Emiri Air Force already has four of the airlifters in
service.
We are very pleased with the
C-17s, and look forward to doubling our fleet to enhance worldwide operations, says deputy
commander Gen Ahmed Al-Malki. The service introduced its first
example in 2009.
A purchase agreement was recently signed by Boeing and the
Qatar government, the manufacturer says. Its last C-17 will soon
roll off the assembly line in Long
Beach, California, ending a 279unit production run.
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F-35 ramping up as milestone nears

Lockheed programme chief says company is on track to deliver operational capabilty, as it anticipates multi-year order
The USMC is close to

declaring F-35B initial
operating capability
US Marine Corps
s the Lockheed Martin F-35

Joint Strike Fighter programme anticipates the end of a
16-year development effort, international partners can expect to
start receiving their long-awaited
jets faster and in larger quantities.
With the US Marine Corps to
stand up its first F-35B combat
squadron next month, production is rapidly scaling up with
just under two years of developmental testing remaining, and
nearly 50% of aircraft deliveries
over the next five years will be
made to international customers.
Lockheed F-35 programme
chief Lorraine Martin says the
company is sticking to the revised
schedule and performance criteria
agreed to in 2010. There are no serious technical issues that keep
me up at night, she adds.
The chunky things are behind
us regarding development, she
says. We havent asked for more
time and we havent asked for
more money.
On cost, Martin says a blueprint for affordability initiative is
paying off, and that an F-35A will

cost less than $80 million per jet
in the 2019/2020 time frame.
The company is also upbeat
about the potential for a threeyear block buy in 2018 for 450 to
500 aircraft that will combine US
and international orders. That
would allow it to reassure its sup-
ply base and make long-lead investments in manufacturing capacity. Lockheed hopes to start
producing upwards of 150 F-35s
per year by the end of the decade.
Meanwhile, the last four F-35Bs
the USMC needs to declare initial
operational capability will be delivered on 30 June, in time for an
SALES
Pratt & Whitney president Paul

Adams believes that more nations
will turn to Lockheed Martins F-35
for protection as the world becomes more dangerous.
The capabilities of the airplane
are just stunning, Adams says. I
think over the next couple of years
this will become very well-known
and well seen by militaries across
the globe. The more dangerous the
world that we live in, the more opportunities there are for sales.
Lockheed and the USA are currently promoting the F-35 to potential users including Canada and
Denmark, plus Belgium and Finland.
Adams says he is upbeat about
the F135 engines performance going into the final stages of development. The operational F-35 fleets
average readiness rate for 2015
stands at 96.3%, which is substan-
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Adams upbeat as F135 engine

development enters last stages
tially above its target, he notes.
A 10-month accelerated mission
test of the F135 has demonstrated
its full-life capability after completing
5,200 engine cycles to replicate
seven years and 1,200 sorties.
P&W says the conventional takeoff and landing engine for the
F-35A was put through its paces at
the US Air Forces Arnold Engine
Development Center in Tennessee.
F135 propulsion system vice
president Mark Buongiorno expects the engine will meets its
mean time between failure and
engine removal targets. The engine meets or exceeds its specifications and the accelerated
mission testing shows a positive
level of robustness, he says.
P&W has delivered 228 F135
engines to date as well as 63 RollsRoyce lift fans for the F-35B.
Buongiorno also points to the
strong performance of the F135 during recent embarked testing aboard
the US Marine Corps amphibious
assault ship USS Wasp, which involed 100 vertical take-offs.
operational readiness inspection

in the second week of July.
Theyll be ready, says Martin.
Thats my goal. I watch it every
day. In support, the latest configuration of the F-35s autonomic
logistics information system is
being installed and will also be
ready in the coming days.
Su-35 still on
table for China
China could still become
Russias first export customer for the Sukhoi Su-35 before the end of 2015.
Our position is we still
believe that we will sign the
contract to sell 24 aircraft [to
China] this year, United
Aircraft chairman Yuri Slyusar
said at the show on 15 June.
Moscow and Beijing have
been negotiating the deal for
the last several years.
The Su-35 represents the
latest version of Sukhois
series of thrust-vectoring
fighters. The new model
adds the Tikhomirov Irbis-E
passive phased array radar
and a modern cockpit.
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spur order glut
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design
Airbuss motoring
mindset for E-Fan
A
irbus is driving ahead with

its e-Fan all-electric trainer
project unveiling at the show a
full-scale mock-up of the production 2.0 model that screams of
automotive design influence in
its sculpted fuselage and sports
car-style cockpit.
Group chief technology officer
Jean Botti and e-Fan chief designer Bruno Saint-Jalmes both trace
their roots to careers at car maker
Renault. But the e-Fan is no flying
car; the battery-powered twin-fan
packs 137kg (302lb) of lithiumpolymer batteries to generate
60kW for its two motors, and the
prototype that joined the flying

display will later this summer attempt to cross the English Channel from Lydd to Calais, reversing
aviation pioneer Louis Blriots
historic feat.
Saint-Jalmes says the 2.0s
character line along the fuselage
is a first in aircraft styling. And, he
adds, the black nose and windscreen follow another motor industry practice, emphasising a
family look, which for Airbus is
the distinctive black glasses on
the A350 airliner and H160 helicopter which he also designed.
Saint-Jalmes also oversaw de-
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Electric trainer mock-up takes cues from automotive industry,

but concept is still very much about finding new ways of flying
The black nose and windscreen reflect the Airbus family look
sign of the 2.0s integrated cockpit
which, with its hand-stitched
leather buckets, also looks like it
belongs in a high-end sports car.
The instrument panel makes
even a modern glass cockpit look
like the dials maze of a 1960s
fighter two Microsoft Surface
tablet computers click into the
dashboard, allowing pilot and instructor to work together inside
and outside the aircraft.
The goal, says Botti, is partly to
relieve pilot stress by simplifying
presentation of critical information related to the flight plan and

available battery power.
But Botti is looking further
ahead, and wants todays smartphone-savvy youth to find e-Fan
quick, fast and easy: We are preparing the aviation of tomorrow.
Its a new way of flying.
The e-Fan prototype is a tandem-cockpit design, but the 2.0
which is on target to enter production around the end of 2017 is
side-by-side, ideal for a trainer.
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ATRs enhancements spur order glut

Turboprop manufacturer secures deals for high-density and combi models, with future re-engining under consideration
receive its aircraft in a 78-seat

configuration. ATR gained the additional capacity through the use
of slimline 28in (71cm) seats and
modifications to the aircrafts internal layout, including moving
the galley forwards.
ATR chief executive Patrick de
Castelbajac says the changes will
prove popular with low-cost air-
programme
marketing
mbraer bolstered its backlog

for its E-Jet family at Paris, securing firm orders from three airlines and one lessor for a total of
50 aircraft, evenly split between
the current generation and the E2
variants.
However, the Brazilian airframer remains quiet on the progress of the re-engined jets, with
the first flight-test example of the
E190-E2 under assembly at its
So Jos dos Campos facility.
Aircastle has made firm
commitments to 15 E190-E2s
and 10 E195-E2s, taking options

for an additional 25 across the
two variants.
The lessors firm orders, which
have a list-price value of $2.6 billion, bring the E2 total to 267,
Embraer says.
United Airlines has placed a
firm order for 10 E175s, taking
options on an additional 18.
Air New Zealand took delivery of its seventh 72-600 at the show
lines, especially in the southeast
Asian market, for flights of an
hour or less. So far we have one
customer lined up for this version but you will see some traction in terms of volume, he says.
However, de Castelbajac says
an 80-seat version remains the
eventual target. ATR will look at
even slimmer seats for this ver-
sion, cutting cargo and baggage

capacity and its Smart Galley concept to get where we need to be.
It will take another two years
or so says de Castelbajac, but the
manufacturer does not plan to
offer a version below 28in as it is
a pitch that some people think is
too far, he says.
Airlines PNG, which will take
eight examples of the combi aircraft, was instrumental in its design, says Thierry Casale, the airframers senior vice-president of
programmes.
It specifically asked for a
configuration to accommodate
four containers, each of 2.16m,
and 44 passenger seats.
Meanwhile, ATR continues to
evaluate potentially re-engining
the aircraft and is in talks with
three powerplant manufacturers
incumbent Pratt & Whitney
Canada, GE Aviation, and Snecma for the requirement.
Bombardier renews regional efforts

B
ombardier plans to reinvigorate its marketing efforts on

the Q400 turboprop and CRJ regional jet after admitting that it
has neglected the two aircraft in
recent years.
In addition, it is evaluating future engine options and other
changes for its range in a bid to
drive performance improvements.
Although the backlogs for both
types have improved of late
standing at 52 and 81 respectively as of 31 March they continue
to lag behind those of their competitors at ATR and Embraer,
which delivered their usual show
pummelling to Bombardier.
On the Q400, the emphasis is on
the flexibility of the platform,
says Jean-Franois Tessier, director
of CRJ programme strategy.
A 78-seat example was on display at the show, but an 86-seat,
high-density variant is also available. So far, only Thailands Nok
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Nifty fifty for

Embraer E-Jet
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TR is proceeding with a host

of enhancements to its popular range of turboprops with
re-engining now under active
consideration as it continues to
tighten its stranglehold on the
regional market.
In all, it netted some 46 firm
orders at Paris, with a further 35
options, including the first customers for its new high-density
and combi models, respectively
from Philipine carrier Cebu Pacific and Papua New Guineas
Airlines PNG.
Comparatively, Bombardier
managed just a single five-unit
order for its Q400 turboprop from
Canadas WestJet.
The Franco-Italian manufacturer had previously unveiled
plans for a high-density model
with around 80 seats, but has yet
to achieve that target. Cebu,
which placed a firm order for 16
examples with 10 options, will
Backlog for CRJ-family aircraft stood at 81 units as of 31 March

Air has acquired the higher capacity model, which uses a seat
pitch of 29in (74cm), plus reconfiguration of the forward baggage
compartment, to achieve the increase.
However, there is potential to
add another seat row if pitch is
further reduced to 28in, taking
capacity to 90 seats.
It is additionally in discussions
with all the major propulsion
manufacturers to evaluate the

technology they can put on the
market, but Tessier stops short of
committing to re-engining.
It is a similar story on the CRJ
family. Bombardier has committed to delivering a double digit
cut in fuel burn by 2020, says
Tessier, through an aerodynamic
clean-up, reshaped wings, and
enhancement of the GE Aviation
CF34 powerplants.
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FACILITIES
Airframer fails to score new orders at Paris, but retains strong forecasts for future sales
ussia aims to jointly develop,

build and certificate a widebody with China within the next
10 years, and details of the aircrafts parameters are to be presented to both countries later in 2015.
Yuri Slyusar, president of Russian manufacturer United Aircraft (UAC), says he met with
Chinese counterparts at Le Bourget to talk about the status of the
midsize widebody.
Basic parameters will be presented to the nations in September, adds Slyusar, and a firm decision will be made thereafter.
Until then, it is premature to
discuss the range, etc... but the
general timeline [is that] we
would like to develop and certify
the aircraft within 10 years, and
so by 2025, we should begin deliveries, he says.
Slyusar also confirms that the
aircraft will be powered by either
Rolls-Royce or GE Aviation engines, given the 2025 target. In
the longer term there is a plan to
develop a Russian powerplant.
He says that although Russia
has the capability to design and
build long-range widebodies, the
aircraft it will develop with China
will be very innovative and require international collaboration.
UAC has previously said that
the jointly-developed aircraft
will have a range of 5,4006,500nm (10,000-12,000km) and
seat around 300 passengers.
Mitsubishi builds decimal

place for MRJ production
M
itsubishi Heavy Industries

is building a final assembly
factory which will have capacity
to produce up to 10 MRJ regional
jets per month, as the Japanese
manufacturer gears up for first
flight and continues its push for
more aircraft sales.
Construction of the assembly
centre, near Nagoya airport, is
ongoing and set to start operations in mid-2016, says Mitsubishi Aircraft president Hiromichi Morimoto.
The centre will be able to ac-
commodate 12 aircraft concurrently and be the sole facility for

MRJ production.
Morimoto adds that the centre
will have a moving line and also
use automation such as robots for
final assembly to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Queried about its planned production rate, Mitsubishi says it
will start with one aircraft per
month before ramping up to 10,
on the assumption that we do
get a good number of orders.
The airframer is forecasting a
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Morimoto is aiming to capture half of the regional jet market
demand for 5,190 regional jets

over the next 20 years and is targeting the capture of around
half of the market.
Although Mitsubishi failed to
add to its backlog of 223 firm orders and 184 options at the show,
Morimoto remains unconcerned.
Development is going smoothly
for the MRJ, but customers need
to see it fly before making a decision. Im confident that our orders will come through in more
numbers as we demonstrate the
aircrafts first flight very shortly,
he says.
He adds that the programme is
on track for a maiden sortie in either September or October.
Five flight-test aircraft will
need to clock more than 2,500
flight hours and validate more
than 1,000 items during a certification campaign that will start in
either the first or second quarter
of 2016.
Data obtained from flight
test will have to be analysed
and turned into documentation
for certification, which is a
very time-consuming process,
says Morimoto. Our challenge
is to minimise the duration of
such activities.
Mitsubishi plans to conduct
mid- and high-speed taxi tests
on its first flight-test aircraft in
August.
narrowbodY
More commitments come despite delay to C919

C
omac added commitments

for an additional 57 C919s at
Paris, but also confirmed that the
first-flight schedule for the in-development narrowbody has been
pushed back to at least next year.
Dang Tiehong Comacs deputy general manager for sales and
marketing says the Chinese airframer is working on rolling out
the first C919 flight-test aircraft
by the end of 2015 and to fly the

jet next year.
Flight International understands that the internal target is
for a September roll-out.
Final assembly of the airframe
has been largely completed, and
systems are now being progressively installed on the prototype,
says Dang.
We will bring the aircraft to
the first-flight preparation state

by the end of the year. If successful, we will make the first flight
next year, he adds.
The original first-flight target
for the C919 was the end of
2015, but sources have told
Flight Internaional that delays
are highly likely, owing to the
companys nascent abilities in
systems integration.
The 57 commitments secured

at Le Bourget bring the total for
the C919 past the 500 mark.
Both deals emanated from
China. Ping An Leasing inked a
letter of intent for 50 C919s, becoming one of Comacs largest
customers, while Puren Group
signed for seven C919s plus seven
ARJ21 regional jets for start-up
subsidiary Puren Airlines.
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German UAV tender
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An SSJ100 in the livery

of Mexicos Interjet
was displayed in the
Paris static park
leasing
Superjet lessor out to break China

Manufacturer hopes for backlog boost from joint venture as it attempts to recover from slew of order cancellations
ukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) is

banking on a new Chinese
leasing joint-venture to re-invigorate its Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional aircraft, following a series
of cancellations that cut the programmes backlog.
The United Aircraft majorityowned airframer, in which
Italys Alenia Aermacchi also
holds a 25% stake, says its shareholders should sign off an agreement to set up a joint-venture
lessor in China at the MAKS air
show in August.
Under the pact, four Russian
and Chinese partners will acquire
100 Superjets over a three-year
period, with the operation to
kick-off next year.
We hope to get the leasing
company up and running by
2016, start buying aircraft from
Sukhoi and leasing them out to
Chinese and Asian operators
thats the game plan, SCACs
senior vice-president for sales
Evgeny Andrachnikov says.
The venture is part of the manufacturers plan to be more aggressive in its sales push in the coming years, he says. Andrachnikov
says Sukhoi is targeting a 10%
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share of the regional jet market in

China over the next 20 years.
He stresses, however, that
there are no plans for Superjet
production in China as it does
not make sense because Beijing
is already developing its regional
jet in the form of the serially delayed Comac ARJ21.
However, he does not rule out
the creation of a Superjet maintenance or completions and delivery centre in China.
Its not just about bringing aircraft to the market, but also how
youre going to bring it. What instruments to use to make the project appealing.
Were looking to approach individual airlines in China and
southeast Asia, but decided to set
up a platform to make ourselves
much more visible with a leasing
company, he says.
Andrachnikov also confirms
that two of its three customers in
Asia Indonesias Sky Aviation
and Lao Central Airlines of Laos
have ceased operations,
leading to the cancellation of a
total of 11 outstanding orders for
the SSJ100. Sukhoi is also
remarketing four Superjets
three from Sky Aviation and one

from Lao Central which the
carriers took delivery of before
they went under.
Were looking to
approach individual
airlines in China and
southeast Asia
Evgeny Andrachnikov
Senior vice-president for sales, SCAC
Were not trying to bring them

back to Russia. The easiest way is
to market them physically in Indonesia and Laos to local airlines, he says.
This is a risk when you become a new kid on the block. You
come with a new aircraft into a
highly competitive market and
theres always a transactional risk
on your end by offering products
to start-ups.
A firm order for six Superjets
from cash-strapped Russian
carrier Transaero has also been
frozen, he says. I think due to
the environment they might have
a shift in business strategy which
might not incorporate Sukhoi
into it. The status of the order

right now is [considered to be]
pending.
In a separate initiative to boost
the types appeal, Sukhoi is working to certificate by the end of
2016 the addition of extra fuel
tanks to extend its range from
2,430nm (4,500km) to 4,050nm.
Andrachnikov adds that Sukhoi is also seriously discussing
the possibility of launching a
stretched variant, which will
have around 120 seats.
The aircraft will have a reinforced wing, but will be powered
by the same PowerJet SaM146
engines.
By 2020, we should come out
with the real baby and roll out the
aircraft, he says. It shouldnt
take too many resources.
In March, Russian president
Vladimir Putin committed to inject Rb100 billion ($2 billion) into
SCAC, relieving the United Aircraft subsidiary of a crippling
debt load.
An SSJ100 in the livery of
Mexicos Interjet, the types only
Western customer, was displayed
in the static park. Interjet has so
far taken delivery of 16 aircraft.
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Airbus Helicopters lifted

by debut as H160 flight
tests get off the ground
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requirement
Partners wait on German UAV tender

Airbus and IAI to bid on Berlins requirement to replace Heron 1 unmanned system, but face likely challenge from Reaper
Despite a 2014 launch, the Super Heron has yet to secure orders
could mean a two-year hiatus in
the procurement.
In addition, IAI is anticipating a
similar requirement from the
Royal Australian Air Force, which
will eventually look to replace its
pair of Heron 1s. They came to

the understanding that they needed to develop their [concept of operations] for UAVs [first]. Now
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team is waiting on the release of a
request for proposals (RFP) from
the German government for unmanned air vehicles, which it believes will arrive before year-end.
The partners plan to offer the
upgraded Heron TP the German
air force currently operates the
IAI Heron 1 variant but face
competition from a General
Atomics Aeronautical Systems/
RUAG team that will offer the
MQ-9 Reaper.
We hope to get a decision on
the release of an RFP by the end
of the year, says Thomas Reinartz, managing director of Airbus
Defence & Spaces airborne
solutions division. With an election due next year, any delay
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unmanned systems
Honeywell wants Global

Hawk for avoidance trials
munitions
UVision holding out for a Hero sale

Israels UVision has revealed its Hero family of loitering munitions,
which range from man-portable, short-range variants up to a gasoline-powered 97kg (214lb) system.
The six-strong range is split into two broad types depending on
whether they are electric- or combustion-engined.
It launches like a missile, flies like a UAV [unmanned air vehicle]
and once it identifies a target it carries out a precise strike, says
Oshri Baron, vice-president of marketing and sales at UVision.
They carry a Controp Micro Stamp electro-optical payload, and can
be flown without the warhead for surveillance missions; in this case a
recovery parachute is installed in place of the explosive charge.
UVision displayed the 30min-endurance, 3kg Hero 30 installed
on an unmanned ground vehicle. It can also be integrated with other
platforms including rotary-wing assets, says Baron.
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says Shmuel Falik, director, regional marketing and business development at IAI.
The only competitor will again
be the MQ-9. I think we have a
solution that competes with the
Reaper, he says. Officials from
the Australian service have
watched demonstrations of the
system, he says.
Canberra will in late June integrate the Heron 1 into civil airspace, having signed a memorandum of agreement with air
navigation services provider
Airservices Australia to establish
procedures covering the initiative.
IAIs larger Super Heron UAV
was on display in the static park.
It was unveiled at the 2014 Singapore air show, but has yet to seal
an order.
oneywell is in discussions to
initiate testing of its
unmanned air vehicle sense
and-avoid capability on the
Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global
Hawk.
The system is currently being
developed for large UAVs, having
previously been trialed on board
the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9 Reaper.
However, it is now exploring
evaluations utilising a bigger system like the high-altitude, longendurance RQ-4.
Weve been working on a
sense-and-avoid capability for
use in the national airspace for
some time now, says Howie
Wiebold, business development
manager for Honeywell.
Weve been flight testing with
several OEMs, mainly General
Atomics with the Predator. We
believe this is a discriminator for
UAVs and we think there will be
a requirement for this for operations in the national, as well as
military airspace, he says. The

system it is proposing is sensor
agnostic, and will utilise the
equipment on board the UAV to
incorporate the sense-and-avoid
capability.
Any eventual offering is likely
to be able to sense and avoid vehicles that are equipped with positioning transponders, as well as
other objects and vehicles lacking
that functionality, says Wiebold.
Honeywells solution feeds
data from the UAVs onboard sensors to a ground station in order
to build up a picture of the surrounding area.
Further flight testing is
planned in 2015 and 2016 using
the Predator, some of which will
help inform an ongoing NASA
project examining the integration
of unmanned aircraft into the US
national airspace.
Were working towards a
certifiable product and were trying to be ahead of the game,
adds Wiebold.
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rotoRcraft
espite a stagnant global market for rotorcraft, Bell Helicopter is staying positive, with
chief executive John Garrison delivering a bullish message to reporters in Paris.
Bell is making significant investments in people and products, says Garrison, including
two new clean-sheet civil helicopters; the super-medium 525
Relentless and the light single
505 Jet Ranger X.
First flight of the 525 is scheduled for the coming weeks, having slipped from its initial target
of late 2014. That deadline was
very aggressive, says Garrison,
given the complexity of the aircraft and the new technology we
are introducing.
The slippage, which sees service entry in 2017, is caused by
issues with the supply chain and
the regulatory challenges around
certificating fly-by-wire controls.
Bell secured more tentative orders for the 525 at the show, signing a letter of intent with lessor
Milestone Aviation for 20 aircraft,
and with an undisclosed buyer
for a VIP variant. Its backlog now
stands at more than 60.
Airbus Helicopters lifted by debut as

H160 flight tests get off the ground
irbus Helicopters has now
flown its new H160 mediumtwin on two occasions, the airframer confirms.
A 40min maiden flight took
place on 13 June shortly before
the Paris show got under way
with a second flight performed
four days later from its Marignane, France site.
The first results are extremely
promising, says chief executive
Guillaume Faury.
Its initial sortie was flown in
ground effect to allow the flighttest team to validate the overall
behaviour and initial data from
the helicopter, it says.
The first flight was very promising in terms of stability, vibrations, and sound levels, says Olivier Gensse, who took the
H160s controls for the test.
Airbus Helicopters will now
look to open the flight envelope
for the new rotorcraft, with the
H160 having already reached
130kt (241km/h) on its second
sortie. Three flight-test articles
will be used in the certification
campaign, with the second prototype powered up for the first time
on 12 June. Certification and service entry are scheduled for 2018.
Despite being dropped from
the programme, initial evalua-
tions will be performed using a

Pratt & Whitney Canada PW210equipped example.
Turbomeca, which will supply
engines for production H160s,
will deliver its first Arrano
turboshaft by year-end. First
flight of the Arrano will take

place in late 2015 or early
2016, says Turbomeca.
The helicopter is already attracting market interest. Jonathan
Baliff, chief executive of oil and
gas operator Bristow Group,
speaking at a Paris event to celebrate the firms 60th birthday,
says: From everything I hear its
a great aircraft.
Airbus Helicopters
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boss upbeat
on prospects
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A second test sortie was performed on 17 June, taking the helicopter up to a speed of 130kt
strategy
UTC takes steps for Sikorsky divorce

Chief executive confirms tough decision to exit helicopter market as it evaluates options to spin off or sell subsidiary
aris may be the city of love,

but for Sikorsky and its parent company United Technologies (UTC), it was the backdrop
for the first steps of a divorce.
After months of speculation,
United Technologies finally confirmed its intention to exit the helicopter business. Clues that a split
might be in the offing were plentiful, with Sikorsky logos strangely
absent from the UTC chalet and
none of the manufacturers rotorcraft on display, save for a UH-60
Black Hawk hidden away at the
back of the US militarys corral.
Speaking in Paris, UTC president and chief executive Gregory

Hayes said the board has decided
to remove Sikorsky from its portfolio so both organisations can
focus on their core businesses.
The companys decision comes
after a review of strategic alternatives for Sikorsky, and a decision
on whether to spin off or sell the
helicopter manufacturer is expected in the third quarter, with the
process complete by the end of the
year, says Hayes. Its a tough decision, but the right decision for
the UTC portfolio.
Sikorsky has captured about

$49 billion-worth of work with
the US Department of Defense,
thanks in part to the Black Hawk
and its legion of derivatives. It
has projected annual revenues of
about $10 billion by 2025, says
Sikorsky president Robert Leduc.
But he warns of headwinds for
the company on the commercial
side, with helicopter sales dropping significantly in the oil and
gas sector, where it primarily
competes with the 12t S-92. Its
only other civil product is the
under-performing S-76D.
Commercial helicopters account for about 30% of the companys business, and 80% of
those commercial sales and the
majority of aftermarket services
support the oil and gas industry.
It is unclear who would acquire the company if UTC proceeds with a sale. US defence
contractors Lockheed Martin and
General Dynamics have both
been linked, as have rotorcraft rivals Airbus Helicopters and Bell
Helicopter. However, both manufacturers decline to comment in
any detail.
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Net Ray goes on

display as Portugal
testing continues
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IMPROVEMENTS
L-39NG upgrade has takers

amid prototype preparation
Alenia will pitch its M-345
trainers
France distills
replacements
for Alpha Jet
rance is gearing up to replace its fleet of Dassault

Alpha Jet trainers under an initiative provisionally dubbed
Project Cognac.
An initial pre-solicitation request was issued in April by
Frances DGA defence procurement agency, and is likely to be
followed by a request for proposals (RFP) in September.
Italys Alenia Aermacchi says
it will offer its developmental
M-345 for the nascent requirement, which will equip the
French flight training school located at Cognac/Chteaubernard air base.
We presented our candidature on 1 June. Now we are waiting for the next step, which will
probably be the RFP, it says.
Paris has an active inventory
of 86 Alpha Jets, according to
Flightglobals MiliCAS database,
including examples flown by the
nations Patrouille de France
aerobatic display team.
Alenia Aermacchi is likely to
face competition from canidates
including Aero Vodochodys
L-39 and the Beechcraft T-6 and
Pilatus PC-21 turboprops.
ero Vodochody has announced the first customers

for its upgrade of the venerable
L-39 Albatros trainer.
Czech state-owned firm Lom
Praha, which trains pilots for the
air force, will upgrade its seven
L-39s to the NG standard. This involves replacing the types Ivchenko AI-25 engine with a Williams
International FJ44-4M turbofan.
The Breitling Jet Team and US
Black Diamond Jet Team have
also signed letters of intent for the
upgrade. The former operates
seven L-39s, while the latter
which is part of US training firm
Draken International has seven.
Aero Vodochody president
Ladislav Simek says the companys L-39NG prototype is likely to
make its debut flight in September, with the new engine already
having been integrated.
Simek says the

prototypes debut
flight is likely to be
in September
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Albatros operator Breitling Jet Team will take the enhancement

The FJ44-4 is used in private
jets such as the Cessna CJ4, Hawker 400XPR and Pilatus PC-24. The
-4M variant which has also previously been selected for Alenia
Aermacchis M-345 is modified
to take higher g loads. The new
engine is additionally expected to
cut the L-39s fuel burn by 15%,
reduce maintenance costs, and
trim 150kg (330lb) from the aircrafts weight.
Other improvements in the
L-39NG include the use of digital avionics and an improved
single-piece canopy, to enhance
visibility for the pilot. It also features five pylons for external
stores. Aero Vodochody also has
a memorandum of understanding with the Czech Republics
VR Group for simulation systems related to the model.
Simek sees a global opportunity
for L-39 upgrades. The aircraft is
used by more than 40 countries,
and users who opt for the package
will be able to enjoy the full airframe life of the type, he says.
Aero Vodochody also plans
to offer the L-39NG as a newbuild aircraft.
ORDER
Mali strengthens with Super Tucano

M
ali will gain an expanded

capability to protect its territory, through a new order for six
Embraer A-29 Super Tucanos.
Announced during the show,
the order will help to boost the
African countrys ability to
conduct advanced training,
border surveillance and internal security missions, according to Embraer. The six aircraft
will be delivered in an armed
configuration.
The Super Tucano speaks for
itself the reputation of this aircraft is very good worldwide,
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will help the nation to build a
strong air arm, he adds.
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operating nine Mikoyan MiG-21
fighters.
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Piaggio notches
up nine sales for
high-speed Evo
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contest
Shadow M2 put through paces for France UAV bid
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Textron Systems team has
begun tests at the Yuma Proving
Ground in Arizona of its
offering for a French unmanned
air vehicle requirement.
The team is proposing Textrons Shadow M2 UAV with
Airbus modifications French
procurement agency DGA requires a local company to be

prime on the programme.
The trials will be the countrys first evaluations of the
Shadow M2 system.
The acquisition is at an early
stage, and the Shadow will likely face competition from the
Thales WK450 Watchkeeper

currently operational with the
British Army and Sagems Patroller UAV.
If the joint Textron/Airbus
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Canadas coast
guard could get
unmanned help
he National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is partnering with the countrys coast
guard to trial the use of commercial unmanned air vehicles on
coastal patrol operations.
It will deploy UAVs from ING
Robotics Aviation with electrooptical/infrared payloads. NRC
will analyse the data collected in
the tests, with the aim of developing a roadmap for the potential integration of UAVs into the
Canadian Coast Guards day-today operations.
UAVs have already been used
for technology demonstrations
that were focused on the agencys operations along the St
Lawrence river.
NRC supports the emergence
of unmanned aerial systems for
their potential to improve capabilities and reduce costs in several key Canadian industries,
says Ian Potter, NRCs vice-president of engineering.
This project is an excellent
opportunity to investigate the
ability of these systems to enhance Canadian Coast Guard
operations.
NRC supports the

emergence of UASs
for their potential to
reduce costs in key
industries
Ian Potter
Vice-president of engineering, NRC
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The system can be

operated from ships
PROGRAMMES
Net Ray goes on display as

Portugal testing continues
Trials of surveillance platform began in October last year with the national guard and navy
ekever has unveiled the AR3

Net Ray unmanned air vehicle, which is currently undergoing testing with a number of Portuguese government agencies.
Trials of the surveillance platform have been ongoing since
October 2014 with a branch of
the nations police force, which
has used it for wilderness monitoring missions in north Portugal
to detect poaching and wildfires.
We have a partnership with
the national guard to trial it for a
long period to see if it works as a
system, says Ricardo Mendes,
chief operating officer at Tekever.
He anticipates the mission
continuing until the fire season
We view [ViaSat] as
at the forefront of
Satcom, and they see
us as at the forefront
of future systems
Ricardo Mendes
Chief operating officer, Tekever
in Portugal is over later this year.

The Portuguese navy is also
evaluating Net Ray which is
able to operate from ships and it
has been deployed by the service
off the African coast on NATOled operations to tackle illegal
immigration via the ocean.
Meanwhile, Tekever and satellite communications (Satcom)

company ViaSat announced at
the show that they have entered
into an agreement to further incorporate beyond-line-of-sight
capabilities on to small UAVs
Tekever will offer its platforms to ViaSat for testing, while
in exchange, the Portuguese
UAV manufacturer will gain
early access to ViaSats small
Satcom technology.
We consider [ViaSat] to be
working at the forefront of Satcom, and they see us as being at
the forefront of future systems,
Mendes says. Well be a cycle
ahead of others.
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The Italian airframer is preparing to deliver six aircraft this year

orders
Boeing grows BBJ

range with launch
of Max 9 variant
Delivery to completions centre expected in 2020 after
airframer secures first order for 737-based VIP airliner
Piaggio notches up nine

sales for high-speed Evo B
P
iaggio Aerospace notched up

a total of two firm orders and
seven options from two customers at the show for its Avanti Evo,
the latest iteration of its highspeed turboprop.
Malaysian charter company
Rozmay Air signed for a single
example of the twin-engined
type, which will be delivered
later this year.
UK business aviation services
provider Zenith Aviation committed to one firm order, with
seven options.
This deal marks the first time
the seven-seat pusher has been selected by a charter operator in the
UK. The first of the $7.4 million

aircraft are scheduled for delivery
in October, joining Zeniths two
Bombardier Learjet 45 business
jets in service.
The Evo is the third iteration of
the P180 twin-pusher. It was
launched in May 2014 as an upgrade of the 10-year-old Avanti II,
and features new winglets, redesigned nacelles, a reshaped front
wing and five-bladed composite
scimitar-shaped propellers.
Piaggio holds orders and options for around 90 Evos and is
preparing to deliver six aircraft
this year, ramping up to two a
month from 2017.
oeing officially launched its

BBJ Max 9 at Paris, following
an order for the 737 Max 9-based
VIP airliner from an unnamed
European customer.
BBJ president David Longridge
says the first aircraft is scheduled
for delivery to an undisclosed
completion centre in 2020.
The sale comes a little over a year
after the BBJ Max 8 programme was
launched with a single order. Boeing has since picked up four
sales for the 737 Max 8-based
aircraft, the first of which will be
delivered green in 2018.
The 737 Max-based BBJs will
have CFM International Leap-1B
turbofans and split-tip winglets,
giving the aircraft a claimed 14%
fuel-burn improvement over the
current-generation 737NG-derived BBJs they will replace,

says Longridge.
The sale comes a

little over a year
after the BBJ Max 8
programme launched
The BBJ Max 9 which will
succeed the BBJ3 boasts a
range of 6,32nm (11,700km); a
800nm improvement over the
current model.
First flight of the 737 Max is
scheduled for 2016 and deliveries to airline customers are scheduled to begin in 2017.
AIR AMBULANCE
hinese medical evacuation

provider Beijing Red Cross
Emergency Medical Center has
selected
Dassaults
Falcon
2000LX for air ambulance
operations.
When the large-cabin business
jet a former Dassault demonstrator enters service in September, it will be the first fixedwing aircraft in China equipped
to perform air ambulance missions.
The 4,000nm (7,400km)-range
twinjet will be retrofitted with a
complete medevac interior by the
French airframers US maintenance, repair and overhaul facility in Wilmington, Delaware.
Equipment to be installed on
the jet includes an electrical
patient-loading system and a full
medical suite including
s
tretcher, dedicated lighting, a
three-bottle oxygen supply and

monitoring and medical analysis
equipment.
It will also be able to accommodate special devices like defibrillators, electrocardiographs,
and a blood bank, Dassault says.
The company is one of the
countrys air ambulance pioneers
and was the first air medevac provider in the country to launch a
multi-vehicle rescue package
combining ambulances, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
In the decade it has been in
operation, it has provided prehospital rescue and medical
treatment service for over 3 million patients, says Dassault.
Dassault has sold a number of
Falcons for medevac missions,
with two 2000LXs delivered in
2011 to the French air forces
60th transport squadron.
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Certification for the 19-seater is scheduled for late 2017

display
Falcon shows 8X appeal in Paris debut

Dassaults newest business jet, the
Falcon 8X, made its airshow debut
at Paris, where it took part in the
daily flying display.
The $57.5 million ultra-long-range
business jet is a stretched and longer-range version of the eight-year-old
7X and sits at the top of Dassaults
six-strong, high-end Falcon business
jet family.
Two aircraft are currently taking

part in the certification campaign at
Dassaults Istres flight test centre in
southern France. A third was
shipped to the airframers US completion facility in Little Rock,
Arkansas earlier in the month.
Dassault is confident its 19-seat
trijet will secure certification and
enter service by the end of 2017.
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Thrush comes back

with a vengeance
as Archangel
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propulsion
developments
Dardo kept current with hybrid engine

talys CFM Air gave a show
debut to its Dardo two-seat piston single, which features a new
hybrid propulsion system.
Designed by former Italian astronaut and Eurofighter test pilot
Maurizio Cheli, the original Rotax
914-powered Dardo entered service around six months ago.
The latest iteration of the carbonfibre aircraft features the
same Rotax powerplant, but this
is combined with a new gearbox
and integrated clutch, a new propeller shaft, a lightweight electric
motor, power converter and control system and a rechargeable
lithium polymer battery. This
[hybrid system] gives the Dardo
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Engine redundancy adds safety

an extra level of safety should either the engine or the electric
motor fail, says French manufacturer Efesto, which is supplying the electric motor and battery
for the new engine.
Israels Ashot Ashkelon has

designed the gearbox and clutch.
The first Dardo equipped with
the new hybrid propulsion system (HPS) is scheduled to make
its first flight in the fourth quarter,
leading to service entry in the
first half of 2016.
The HPS is designed as an
add-on kit for the Rotax 912/914
engines and will eventually be
available to all aircraft powered
by these models, Efesto says.
We would also like to apply
this technology to engines in the
Continental and Lycoming families as this would open up the
huge certificated general aviation
aircraft market to us, it adds.
strategy
Metal Master starts family

planning after Flaris is a hit
P
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rench start-up Elixir Aircraft

has unveiled a new piston
single-engined low-wing aircraft
which is scheduled to enter service in 2017.
The Elixir is a composite
fuselage aircraft designed with
the pilots comfort in mind, says
Arthur Leopold-Leger, chief
executive of the La Rochelle

based venture, which he founded
in D
ecember 2014 with partners
Nicolas Mahuet and Cyril
Champenois.
C3 Technologies also based
in La Rochelle is building the
composite parts for the Elixir. It
will only consist of around eight
big pieces, says Champenois.
The wing is a single structure, so
too is the fuselage. This not only
makes the aircraft safer, but it
speeds up the production process, he adds.
The wing is a single

structure, so too
is the fuselage.
This speeds up the
production process
Europes lone personal jet developer reveals desire for series of LAR-branded aircraft
Cyril Champenois
Founder, Elixir Aircraft
The five-seater is
scheduled to make
its maiden flight
later this year
designed by Czech company
Galaxy. One is positioned in the
tail and deployed to slow the aircraft down and the other is located in the centre of the fuselage
and designed to bring the LAR-1
safely to the ground.
The Williams International
FJ33-5A-powered aircraft is
scheduled to make its maiden
flight later this year. It will initially
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olish engineering company

Metal Master returned to
Paris with its Flaris LAR-1
personal jet, revealing for the first
time that the five-seat type is just
the beginning of its plans for the
segment.
The LAR-1 is the baby of the
family, says Rafal Ladzinski, coowner of Metal Master and Flaris
project director. Our next model
will be a twin-engined design,
he adds. All future models will
also use the LAR designation.
The five-seat LAR-1 made its
international show debut at Le
Bourget in 2013.
We have had an overwhelming response to the LAR-1, says
Ladzinski, who designed the aircraft along with Andrzej Frydrychewicz creator of the propeller-driven
PZL-130
Orlik,
PZL-106 Kruk and PZL-104
Wilga for former Polish stateowned aircraft manufactuer PZL
Warszawa-Okecie.
The LAR-1 will be equipped
with two emergency parachutes
Elixir drinks
in show debut
be validated under the Polish civil

aviation authoritys S-1 experimental aircraft designation. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in
2016 or early 2017, European certification is slated for 2018.
It is believed to be the only
single-engined personal jet programme being developed by a
European company to CS-23/Part
23 certification standards.
Priced at 160,000 ($180,000),

the Rotax 912iS-powered aircraft
is projected to have a cruise
speed
of
around
170kt
(315km/h), an empty weight of
265kg (583lb) and a payload of
280kg. It also features an emergency parachute system, manufactured by BRS.
The aircraft is now in its detailed design phase. Elixir plans
to construct the first prototype in
mid-2016 and fly it for the first
time later that year. Certification
and service entry are scheduled
for 2017.
If the programme is a success it
could act as a springboard for the
creation of larger models based
on the same process.
We will see how well the Elixir is received first. But that is our
intention, Leopold-Leger says.
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RADAR
update
Production-standard aircraft features modified cockpit and additional ballistic protection
The service will award

the first pre-EMD
contracts in August
Lockheed Martin is partnering
with Raytheon and Bombardier to
offer an ultra-long range Global
Express-based system. Lockheeds
Skunk Works unit is drawing up
the companys proposal.
Bombardier vice-president of
specialised aircraft Stphane Villeneuve says that it previously delivered the civil BD-700 as the basis for
the USAFs E-11A battlefield airborne communications node type.
Boeing announced last September that it is offering a
JSTARS recapitalisation solution
based on its 737-700.
The air force plans to competitively award contracts to a maximum of three industry teams to
mature the programme and prototype their designs prior to a
source-selection decision in 2017
for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase.
The service says it will award the
first tranche of pre-EMD contracts in August, ahead of an acquisition decision by the Pentagon in September.
The USAF wants to acquire 17
new aircraft, and plans to spend at
least $1.3 billion by 2020.
S firm Iomax displayed an

armed variant of the Thrush
S2R-T660 turboprop aircraft in
the static park, dubbed the
Archangel.
The same airframe had appeared at the show in 2013, but
has subsequently been heavily
modified to create a productionstandard attack aircraft.
Modifications included moving the cockpit forward by 43in
(110cm), to improve visibility
and safety. The aircraft also now
has ballistic protection against
7.62mm rounds and self-sealing
fuel tanks. It was exhibited carrying weapons ranging from rockets up to laser-guided bombs, and
an electro-optical/infrared sensor
pod on its centreline station.
Ron Howard, president and
owner of Iomax, says the company has a close working relationship with Turkish weapons
maker Roketsan. A four-round
launcher for the latters 2.75in
Cirit guided missile was fitted,
which the company has tested
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he competitive field for a multi-billion programme to replace the US Air Forces Northrop
Grumman E-8C joint surveillance
target attack radar system
(JSTARS) aircraft has become
clearer, with details of two teams
having emerged during the show.
Northrop, Gulfstream and L-3
Aerospace Systems on 16 June
said they were joining forces.
Gulfstream president Larry Flynn
says the company will offer one
of its business jets as the basis for
a mature, non-developmental,
ramp-ready JSTARS platform.
Northrop has previously used a
demonstrator based on a G550.
Thrush comes back with a

vengeance as Archangel
Deliveries are set to commence for the United Arab Emirates

Emirates was set to take delivery
of its first Archangel from a 2014
order for 24 examples. Previously, Iomax adapted 24 Air Tractor
AT-802Us for the UAE, of which
six have been transferred to Jordan. Howard says the company
had taken attack modifications
of the AT-802 crop-duster airframe as far as possible.
successfully against both stationary and moving targets. Up to 48

of the weapons could be carried.
The Archangel lacks a gun,
but Howard says that this
would be impractical, as the
aircraft has been optimised to
operate at between 16,000ft
and 25,000ft.
Meanwhile, the United Arab
VARIANTS
New name gives Wolverine more bite

T
extron Aviation has renamed

its Beechcraft AT-6 light attack aircraft as the Wolverine,
to differentiate it from the T-6
Texan II trainer.
We wanted a name that was appropriate, relevant and cool, says
Russ Bartlett, president of Beechcraft Defense Company, which
sought suggestions from its employees. The wolverine is a territorial, defensive type of animal.
The aircraft was part of a major
Textron presence at the show,
which also included a trio of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance types. Cessna debuted its special mission-adapted
Grand Caravan EX and a G58
Baron, alongside a Beechcraft
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outline details
The AT-6 shows its teeth

King Air operated by French customs officials. The Textron AirLand Scorpion was also present.
With a high percentage of our
Caravan sales going into special
mission roles around the world,
this platform has proven to be a
truly versatile multi-tasker, says
Dan Keady, vice-president, special missions. Its demonstrator

will enable potential customers
to experience first-hand the extensive range of capabilities available on this platform, he adds.
The Grand Caravan EX can lift a
payload of nearly 1,600kg
(3,520lb), and hardpoints can be
built into the wing to enable it to
carry weapons. Other applications
could include air ambulance, aerial survey, and amphibious and
transport operations, Textron says.
Textron also disclosed that it
has delivered four T-6D trainers
to the US Army. The aircraft will
be stationed at Redstone Arsenal
in Huntsville, Alabama, and replace aged Beechcraft T-34s.
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and Wrner
discuss ESAs
future role
SPACE
Dordain legacy a bigger, stronger ESA

European Space Agency head appears at last Paris alongside his successor, who promises to be another virtuoso performer
Airbus Defence & Space, to further

develop the robotic craft as a service module for its Orion deepspace crew capsule which will
fly an uncrewed mission around
the Moon in 2018 and, if dreams
pan out, to Mars in the 2030s.
Orion-ATV highlights the enduring legacy of good decisions
and successful execution. As Dordain observes, the ATV programme was approved for development 20 years ago.
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fter a dozen years as head of

the European Space Agency,
Jean-Jacques Dordain made his last
Le Bourget appearance as director
general, and with replacement-inwaiting Johann-Dietrich Wrner at
his side, the duo made it abundantly clear that the show will go on.
Dordain, who retires on 30 June,
is a one-time French astronaut candidate who joined ESA in 1986.
During his tenure, membership
has grown to 22 European nations
plus Canada, ESAs launchers armoury has expanded beyond the
venerable Ariane to include Vega
and Soyuz, and missions including the Rosetta comet-chaser have
made global headlines.
Dordains influence will be felt
for years to come. A highlight was
the completion in February 2015 of
the five-mission Automated Transfer Vehicle resupply programme to
the International Space Station.
Such was its success that NASA
asked ESA, and prime contractor
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aCHIEVEMENTS
To go to the Moon with NASA,
says Dordain, is a fantastic heritage for ATV, a fantastic representation of what we can
achieve. By we I mean mostly
European industry.
The upshot of success, he adds,
is that everybody wants to co-operate with ESA. We are the most
reliable partner in the world.
Dordains show visit included
meetings with counterparts from
NASA, Russias Roscosmos and
Chinas space agency. With the latter, he says, ESA is developing a
joint scientific mission called
Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (Dordain
particularly likes the acronym,
SMILE) to launch in 2021. ESA
will also support Chinas Moon
and Mars missions and there are
plans to fly European astronauts to

a Chinese space station.
Roscosmos, meanwhile, is providing lift and scientific payloads
for ESAs 2016 and 2018 Mars missions the first of which is on track
for launch while the second completed its preliminary design review on 6 May, says Dordain.
His departure is also preceded
by high-profile news that came
through on the eve of the Paris
show. Rosettas star rose dramatically when Philae, the lander it
sent down to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko back in November, came to life against the odds as
its batteries charged with increasing sunlight. And, Italian astronaut
Samantha Cristoforetti arrived
safely home from the ISS after setting European and global female
space endurance records. Earlier
this year, ESA demonstrated mastery of hypersonic re-entry with its
IXV technology demonstrator
which was displayed at Paris to
underpin a fully-fledged spaceplane programme.
But while the space community will miss Dordain, Wrners
appearance at Paris heralds another virtuoso performer.
Like Dordain, the man who will
stand down as head of Germanys
DLR space agency to replace him
is a gifted communicator with a
common touch. Asked whether

ESA would like to partner NASA
on a developing plan to send a US
robotic mission to land on Jupiters moon, Europa, Dordain plays
loose with the bodys name to declare: We wont let NASA land
on Europe without us!
If they do that
without us, we will
go to the Moon and
bring home the
American flag
Johann-Dietrich Wrner
Future head of ESA
Wrner adds: If they do that

without us, we will go to the
Moon and bring home the American flag.
He acknowledges his automatic duty to continue where Dordain leaves off: I am in the fortunate position that I can harvest the
seeds of his work, he says.
But the new boss also heralds
an expansive vision for a new era,
which he calls space 4.0. If 1.0
was ground-based astronomy, 2.0
the Apollo-era space race and 3.0
the co-operation of the ISS era, 4.0
is when space becomes day-today business.
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While the daily flying display lacked the volume of

previous Paris shows, the quality of hardware still
caught the eye. Dassaults Rafale had only a Pakistan
air force JF-17 to duel with, while sparring partners
Airbus and Boeing were joined by Bombardier
(Clockwise from
main) A380 marks
a decade of flight;
Rafale tears the
sky; A350-900;
Vietnam Airlines
rises with 787-9;
NH90; CS300 in
air show debut;
Patrouille de
France Alpha Jets;
SA300 Starduster;
JF-17 Thunder;
agile A400M
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(Clockwise from
main) Cessna 195
shines in the sun;
A-10; Qatar
Airways A319;
DGA Fokker 100
testbed; lethal
Harop; F-16; Bell
shows 407GX and
429WLG; Falcon
7X; P-8 on patrol;
Brazilian H225M
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A stroll across the tarmac at Le Bourget gave visitors the opportunity to pause beside a
wide range of visiting aircraft, from the cutting-edge of current technology to classic types.
The US military was back at the show with a corral of 11 types, while Qatar Airways
brought an unprecedented five models from its fleet to the aviation event of the year
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Neuron drops in
The Dassault-led European Neuron demonstrator programme
has moved to partner Saabs
test facility in Sweden where it
will complete a munitions drop
from its weapons bay.
Dassault CEO Eric Trappier
says the UAV completed 100
test flights in France and additional flights with Alenia in Italy
before heading to Sweden last
week for the firing element of
the programme.
lans for regional aircraft development and production

in Turkey have been laid out
by 328 Group, including the
likely selection of engine suppliers and
a rst tentative order for 50 jets.
Disclosed in late May, the new programmes the 32-seat T328 and
TRJ328 are based, respectively, on the
existing Dornier 328 turboprop and
jet aircraft, for which 328 Group
holds the intellectual property. Delivery of the rst
modernised examples
of the legacy types is
due in 2018.
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Bombardier sets sights beyond show debut for CSeries pair

with performance boosts and new sales prospects ahead
s exhibitors and visitors le into the Paris air
show they will likely do a double take as
they pass the Bombardier stand where, nally, the airframers agship CSeries aircraft
make their combined and overdue air show debut.
And the Canadian manufacturer took the offensive
yesterday, announcing that the two models will have
even better performance than previously predicted,
with range increasing to 3,300nm (6,110km)
350nm more than previously listed in the Montreal-
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based companys specication sheets for the types.

We are actually beating the initial brochure for this
aircraft, which is a huge endorsement of this programme, says Fred Cromer, president of Bombardier
Commercial Aircraft. The performance is better on the
fuel burn side, payload, range and other performance
targets. Also, the aireld performance is exceeding the
original target.
Executives used the updated gures to inject optimism into a programme dogged by ight test delays
and overshadowed in recent months by a management
shake-up. The CSeries was notably absent from the
2014 Farnborough air show after problems with the
types Pratt & Whitney PW1500G geared turbofan resulted in a 100-day grounding, halting ight tests.
The company is showcasing both a Swiss
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One of two further clean-sheet, 50-70seat designs the jet-powered TRJ628

and TR628 turboprop is scheduled to
perform its rst ight in 2023.
The development is part of a memorandum of understanding signed by
328s parent Sierra Nevada and the
Turkish government, alongside local
manufacturing partner STM.
Speaking to Flight Daily News
at the Paris air show, 328
Group managing director
Dave Jackson conrmed talks with

Pratt & Whitney Canada to supply its
2,500shp (1,860kW)-class PW127 turboprop and the latest variant of its
PW306B engines for the two updated
aircraft. The new turboprop powerplants raise maximum take-off weight
by 1.5t to 15.6t.
In addition, discussions are ongoing
with avionics suppliers Honeywell
and Rockwell Collins over the addition of a glass cockpit for the types.
The changes, says Jackson, will
future-proof these aircraft for the
next 30-40 years.
An initial tentative commitment for
50 examples of the jet variant has
been struck with the Turkish government, he says. Talks are also
ongoing with potential customers
for the turboprop, he adds.
These will be assembled at a Turkish facility to be set up in the next 18 to
24 months. Further ahead, 328 is hoping to select Pratt & Whitney to provide
After months of speculation,

UTC has formally announced
its intention to separate from
Sikorsky and exit the helicopter business.
Speaking at Le Bourget,
UTC president and chief executive Gregory Hayes says the
board has decided to remove
Sikorsky from its portfolio so
both organisations can focus
on their core businesses. Its a
tough decision, but the right
decision for the UTC portfolio,
he says.
geared turbofan engines in a similar

thrust class to the 15,000lb-thrust
(67kN) PW1200Gs powering the Mitsubishi Regional Jet for the TRJ628,
and PW127s for the turboprop.
The latter models will feature an allnew, part-composite fuselage and wing,
with the engines the only difference between them. This should simplify the
production process, says Jackson.
Although the market for 50-seat
types has dwindled in recent years,
Jackson points to the number of aircraft in the segment that are still in
operation around 5,000 as a sign
that there is still a requirement for
models with that seating capacity.
All models will be certicated by
the US Federal Aviation Administration and EASA from the outset,
says Jackson.
Overall, Jackson believes orders
can be secured for around 250 examples of both the modernised and
clean-sheet developments.
X6 is goer
for Airbus
Airbus Helicopters has confirmed that it will launch the development phase of its new X6
heavy rotorcraft at Paris today.
So far no details of the new
helicopter, which will replace
the 11t-class H225, have
been released.
However, the green light for
the development has been
enabled through a deal on
launch funding struck with
the French and German
governments.
Meanwhile, the airframer
has confirmed that it performed a successful first flight
of its new 5.5-6t H160 (pictured below) last Friday.
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It has been called a 757 replacement, but a new programme from either of
the big OEMs to fill a perceived gap between the largest narrowbodies and
smallest twin-aisles is likely to be very different to the out-of-production
Boeing type. We assess whether such a development would be truly viable
One of the major subjects of discussion over the past two or three years
has been the need for what is often called a 757 replacement aircraft to
fill the Middle of the Market (MoM) gap. MoM is hard to define, but is at
the cross-over point between single-aisle and twin-aisle aircraft, between
180 and 250 seats. Air Lease Corporations Steven Udvar-Hazy for one
has been very vocal in calling for such an aircraft, and ALC has placed a
launch order for the new Airbus A321neo LR the closest current or new
type that fits the bill in terms of seats and range capability.
Flightglobal has spoken to Boeing recently and it is clear it is thinking
about a MoM aircraft concept carrying around 220-240 people about
20% farther than the 757-200, which implies around 5,000nm (9,260km)
nominal range, and also implies the aircraft would be a twin-aisle design.
This places the aircraft in a currently vacant piece of the payload/range
envelope, but not necessarily in one that has not been served before. We
believe this is really a 767 replacement, not a 757 replacement.
The other key design aim is obviously to offer attractive operating economics,
which have to include the acquisition cost. This is a major challenge to Airbus
and Boeing, with Boeing in particular having a psychological hurdle to cross,
following the experience of huge cost over-runs on 787 development.
A key design
aim would
be to offer
attractive
economics,
but would
also include
the acquistion
cost
AIRLINES WITH MOST CAPACITY IN 3,000 TO 5,000nm RANGE

120,000
2005 ASKs
100,000
2014 ASKs
ASKs (m)
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
Emirates Delta United British Lufthansa Air American KLM Turkish Virgin
Air Singapore Aeroflot Qatar
Thai Etihad
Air
Korean Iberia
US
Japan
Air Airlines Airways
France Airlines Royal Airlines Atlantic Canada Airlines
Airways Airways Airways China
Air
Airways Airlines
Lines
Dutch
Airways
Limited Lines
Airlines
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June 2015
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ussia is aiming to jointly develop,

build and certicate a widebody
with China within the next 10 years
to offer an alternative to the Boeing
787 and Airbus A350 aircraft.
Details of the aircrafts parameters are to be
presented to both countries later this year according to Yuri Slyusar, president of Russian
manufacturer United Aircraft Corporation
(UAC),who disclosed the targets during a briefing at Le Bourget. Slyusar says UAC has met
with Chinese counterparts at the show
to talk about the status of the midsize widebody.
Though he declined to provide details of the
aircrafts size and range, Slyusar says basic parameters will be presented to the two nations
in September, and that a rm decision on the
project will be made thereafter.
Until then, it is premature to discuss the
range, etc... but the general timeline is that we
would like to develop and certify the aircraft
within 10 years, and so by 2025, we should
begin deliveries, he says.
Slyusar also conrms that the
aircraft will be powered by either Rolls-Royce
or General Electric engines, given the 2025 target. In the longer term, however, there is a plan
to develop an indigenous Russian engine.
UAC has also showed a digital image of a
widebody bearing a livery with Chinese colours
on the fuselage and Russian colours on the tail.
Asked if there are concerns about technology transfer in the planned collaboration with
China, Slyusar responds that since the aircraft
will be developed from scratch, there is nothing to re-engineer.
Paris Air Show: C2
A400M in
UK return
ISSUE 4 THURSDAY 18 JUNE 2015
The UK Royal Air Force is to resume training flights with its

first pair of Airbus A400M tactical transports with immediate effect, the service says.
Flight operations with the
UKs Atlas airlifters had been
paused since a fatal accident
in Seville, Spain on 9 May,
which killed four Airbus flighttest personnel. The German air
force says it expects to resume
operations with its one A400M
in the coming weeks, once it
has performed software
checks on the aircraft.
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A320s
freight
U-turn
rance has demonstrated the

load-carrying credentials of its
A400M tactical transport at Le
Bourget, as it gets ready to take
delivery of a seventh example from Airbus in the coming days.
Weighing in at a cool 29t, a VBCI armoured vehicle has been repeatedly loaded onto the French air force aircraft on display outside Airbuss chalet. A growth
version tipping 32t is to come soon.
Defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian
opted to keep the nations A400Ms in operational use following a fatal accident
involving the type in Spain on 9 May.
We have full condence in the
aircraft, and the way we have operated since the accident shows our
faith, says Frances programme manager for the
A400M, who declines
to be named.
Airbus has resurrected the A320

freighter conversion programme it
killed four years ago, teaming up
with Singapores ST Aerospace,
which will lead development of a
simpler design.
The airframer abandoned a
passenger-to-freighter partnership
with Russia in 2011, but believes
the timing is ideal to offer the
A320P2F and A321P2F as successors to the cargo Boeing 757. Airbus sees a 20-year market for
600 aircraft.
The first aircraft will be available
in 2018, although the partnership
which already offers A330 conversions has yet to confirm a launch
customer. While other A320 conversion schemes have emerged, the ST
Aerospace programme is the only
one to have formal Airbus backing.
Airbus chief operating officer
Tom Williams says the previous
A320P2F had been over-designed with a structurally-complicated aft main cargo door, in a
flawed bid to address every corner
point of the market.
He says the revised design, with a
forward door, is more pragmatic.
The A320P2F will have 21t capacity
and a range of 2,100nm (3,890km)
while the A321P2F, able to take 27t,
will have a 1,900nm range.
Airbuss previous A320P2F programme had secured lessor AerCap
as a customer. EFW chief Andreas
Sperl says several parties are interested in the new programme.
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An unmanned air vehicle has

been whizzing around the
show this week, collecting imagery of the goings on and the
aircraft on display.
The quadcopter DJI
Phantom was equipped with
a GoPro Hero4 Black camera
and was operated by the
Aero3A communications
company, alongside the
Make2Work production
company and the AirBuzz
marketing company.
The largest aeronautics exhibition in the world could not be
attended without a drone to
highlight the amazing design of
the latest range of commercial
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The output from the RPAS
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Aeroflot has cancelled its

order for 22 Boeing 787s, the
carriers deputy general director for strategy and alliances,
Giorgio Callegari, said at the
show yesterday.
The airline executive says
the decision was based on
analysis of capacity at the
airport [Sheremetyevo] and
the sustainability of the fleet
development sustainability
in terms of the right mix of
widebodies and narrowbodies
and network development.
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Can Chinese
ease out Leahy?
The main governing point of

every suggestion for attacks
en masse must
be Pilots, Pilots,
Pilots, and then
again Pilots,
Pilots, Pilots, coupled with an
adequate supply of efficient
instructors.
Plenty of material last week

from the garden fete in Paris.
Non-stop, veteran Airbus
sales chief John Leahy hinted
when he may hand in his wings
during a press conference to
present the manufacturers latest
market forecast. He was asked if
China would become a force to
be reckoned with in the airliner
manufacturing world.
I think by the end of the 20year period [covered by Airbuss
forecast] China will be in the
game thats probably going to
force me into retirement! he
joked.
Meanwhile, Leahy also had
his crystal ball out when he
predicted that those attending
the Paris air show in 15 years
time would be part of an
industry twice as big as it is
today. Fine, except 15 years
from now John, well all be at
Farnborough 2030.
At one point Russias UAC
was holding a press conference
in the room next to a media
event hosted by Antonov of
Ukraine. Peacekeeping forces
thankfully were not required to
monitor any border incursions.
This Qatar Airways
advertisement one of several
prominent throughout Le
Bourget as part of the airlines
attempted takeover of the show
caught the eye of our former
colleague Jon Ostrower. It shows
a business class executive
apparently enjoying a travel
experience like no other on
board one of the carriers 787s.
Except the cabin pictured
looks remarkably like an A380.
Somebodys getting fired, he
tweets ominously.
Remember them
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The acceptance by France of

Germanys terms is a matter
for statesmen,
soldiers and
historians to
discuss. It will be
a subject of such debate for
centuries to come. Here let us
merely say that we remember
the heroism with which the
French Army, in several cases
very badly led, fought to a
standstill.
Caption suggestions welcome for this snap of the most

important man in France meeting... the French president. To
get you going and noting the apparent body language
weve gone for [in Bond villain voice]:So, Monsieur Hollande,
we meet again. But this time the advantage is mine.
Air show accident
Reader Peter Dennis liked Jade

Coxons picture of the photobombing gull gatecrashing the
Red Arrows display published
two weeks ago.
I too was at the Llandudno air
show, he says, and the gulls
were indeed a problem (to photography if not aviation). It seems
they hadnt read the NOTAMs
and made several incursions into
the display area (see photo right
of one feathered invader conflicting with a Jet Provost).
Mock-up cock-up
Our story about the gentleman
driving his convertible down
the Florida freeway with a 3m
air-to-surface missile in the
passenger seat reminded reader
David Hurst of an incident in
the early 1970s.
While an apprentice with a
now-defunct guided missile
manufacturer north of London,
he recalls, I had to go with a
driver taking a full-scale mockup of a proposed short-range airto-air missile to a presentation at
Peter Dennis
Feather warning
John Ostrower
Awkward...!
Pilots en masse
Gull-ivers travels
the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall. Arriving outside the front
door of the main MoD building
we stopped at the bottom of the
steps, opened the back doors of
the van, hauled the missile out
and put it on our shoulders no
covering and walked it up the
steps and through the front door
to reception.
Reception gave us directions
to the conference room, so we
walked it up the stairs to the appointed place.
Afterwards we reversed the
process. They didnt buy it. Probably wouldnt even get the van to
the building nowadays!
The poignancy of a flying

accident before thousands of
spectators
recurred at the
Paris Show on
June 15 (recalling
a similar tragedy in 1961)
when a USAF B-58 crashed
and burned on the end of
Runway 25, killing the pilot
and injuring the other two
crew members.
Combi cutback
The inquiry into the 1987

crash of the South African
Airways Boeing
747-244B Combi,
Helderberg, has
recommended
that the Combi aircraft
configuration, which seats
passengers and cargo on the
same deck, should be banned
until fire detection,
containment and fire-fighting
equipment are improved.
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Running into
trouble on Atlas
What surprises me most about
the tragic A400M accident is not
that it happened, or even that the
root cause seems to point to a
software configuration error.For
me, it is the fact that the aircraft
was not subject to a series of
ground-based engine runs before
setting off down the runway.
Call me an old-fashioned aircraft engineer, but in all my 30
years in the industry, I cannot
ever recall sending a rebuilt, or
ex-deep maintenance aircraft off
to fly without testing the critical
systems on the ground first yet
alone one that has just rolled off
the production line.
Mike Caffyn
Souyeaux, France
New direction for

third runway?
In Flight International, 16 December 2014-5 January 2015,
there is an image of a proposed
solution as to where to place the
third runway at Heathrow.
Superb idea no demolition
of houses in Sipson and the local
area north of the northern run-
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
Positive spin?
Much as I enjoyed the article

on the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X
(Flight International, 16-22
June), two of the points made
left me puzzled.
First, it was said that the
most visible of the minor
changes incorporated since
the start of flight testing affected the horizontal stabiliser, which has been
reshaped.
Facing up to the competition
The photos appear to indicate something more drastic, namely that instead of being located
on the right hand side of the vertical stabiliser, the horizontal stabiliser has been moved from there to a new position farther forward,
and now hangs centrally below the tail boom. It has also acquired a
leading edge slat.
Secondly, surely there was some weighty reason for Bell to stop
production of the 206B3, other than what sounds like a fit of absence of mind?
Did not competition bring this about?
The Robinson 66, announced in 2007, made sales untenable
since that helicopter offered virtually the same performance for
30% less money, as your chart shows.
Dr David D Hebb
via email
way, and noise reduction to west

London by extending the existing northern runway to the west
to create a third airstrip with adequate separation between the
two runways.
The runways on the image are
directly in line with each other.
If the new Heathrow runway is
angled slightly to the south it
would not only avoid having to
remove some dwellings in its
path to the west of the M25, but it
would also make life easier for
air traffic control, since it would
remove the problem of aircraft
overflying each other from the
in-line airstrips.
Also, as an advocate of keeping useful airports operating, the
saga of Manston airport rolls on
and on. Manston is the obvious
Bell Helicopter
FLIGHT
design change
solution to opening up more passenger slots at both Heathrow

and Gatwick, by diverting all
cargo from these airports to the
superb facilities that Manston
can still provide if resurrected.
Dave Hayfield
Acol, Kent, UK
Reviving the
race for space
predominate. By contrast, there

are about 40 million scheduled
airline flights per year, so reusability in aviation does indeed
make a big difference.
Reusable launchers will only
pay dividends if traffic levels are
greatly increased.
Space tourism could provide
the required economies of scale
and lower costs, but this requires
greatly improved safety.
We therefore need a paradigm
shift to an aviation approach to
space transportation, with fully
reusable launchers like aeroplanes (spaceplanes) designed as
far as is practicable to airliner
safety codes.
We knew how to build a
spaceplane in the 1960s, when
most large aircraft companies
studied them in depth.
They were not developed at
the time because the Cold War
race to the Moon soaked up the
available funding.
This history has created institutions and habits of thought that
repeatedly reinforce the throwaway habit.
The efforts of Richard Branson
and others will eventually bring
in the new space age, but we
could get there much faster by
planning for it now.
David Ashford
Author of Space Exploration: All
That Matters
Almondsbury, Bristol, UK
Guessing games
Your editorial Throwaway culture? and article Reusable rockets to cut space waste (Flight International, 16-22 June) miss the
big picture.
The reason why making
launchers reusable would seem
to make so little difference to cost
is that, with only about 100 satellite launches per year, overheads
Congratulations to Darren Straker

(Flight International, 16-22 June)
for having successfully secondguessed the fate of MH370and
then reprimanded the rest of us
for unsuccessfully second-guessing the fate of MH370!
Maybe I am missing something, or is that second guessing?
Paul Burch
Farnham, Surrey, UK
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