SP's AirBuz - ISSUE No 06-11

Issue Features

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  Holding Firm
  By B.K. Pandey

  The E-Jets family has more than 800 commercial aircraft in operation with 60 companies in 40 countries with over 1,000 firm orders and a large number of options. The company expects to deliver around 1,100 aircraft by 2016.

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  Strategise, Plan, Execute
  By A.K. Sachdev

  There is a crying need for a long-term strategy to harness public and private resources to make the most, if not all of the 500 airports in India operational.

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  The Champion
  By Joseph Noronha

  Over the last 25 years, Bombardier Aerospace has grown 20 times and has launched 28 successful new aircraft programmes with its success largely hinging on the CRJ family.

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  EC225 in India

  A demonstration flight of the helicopter from the Eurocopter Super Puma family was held at the Juhu Airport in Mumbai

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  3rd IBAE takes off the ground

  The third edition of Indian Business Aviation Expo is set up at the Grand Hotel, New Delhi on February 21-22, 2012 for its worldwide participants to explore the Indian GA sector with enthusiasm for substantial outcomes

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  Aerial filming - Becoming a Norm

  Aerial filming certainly helped to enhance the overall viewing experience as India hosted the Formula One World Championship for the first time

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  Finest Invention

  PurePower PW1000G geared turbofan engine named to Time magazine’s ‘50 Best Inventions of 2011’

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  Growing Albeit Slowly
  By Sucheta Das Mohapatra

  India’s business aviation industry will be three times larger by 2020, forecasts Business Aircraft Operators Association, and states that the association will take up policy...

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  A Class Apart
  By S.R. Swarup

  The G550 is undoubtedly a great aircraft to fly. It has all the technology that modern aviation has to offer.

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  Dubai Air Show - Avalanche of Orders
  By SP’s Correspondent

  More than 56,548 trade visitors along with 960 exhibitors from 50 countries participated in the Dubai Air Show 2011, as the Middle East economy seemed to have bounced back from the global slowdown

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  Promoting Cooperation
  By B.K. Pandey

  The US-India Aviation Summit 2011 served to reinforce the nascent bonds between the aviation industries of the US and India and generated considerable excitement amongst the guests from abroad

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  ‘We are exploring possibility of cooperation in training and general aviation too’

  An interview with Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services, International Trade Administration

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  ‘RNP is the way of the future’

  An interview with Steve Fulton of GE Aviation

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  Winds of Change
  By B.K. Pandey

  Air safety is the most pressing concern for the US regulators. But they are realising that the cost of procrastination in the decision to permit widespread use of UAVs in the civilian domain will be higher than the risks associated with their employment.