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SP's Aviation - ISSUE No 12-14

Issue Features

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  Business Aviation | Falcon 8X
  Falcon 8x, The new flagship
  By R. Chandrakanth

  The ultra long-range Falcon 8X is the latest addition to the growing Falcon business jet family

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  Show Report | MEBA 2014
  Business Aviation Core to Middle East Growth
  By R. Chandrakanth

  The Middle East is becoming a major aviation hub on the East-West axis and business aviation is contributing significantly to aviation growth

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  Military | Round-Up 2014
  Indian Air Force: New Hopes
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  The new Modi Government has in fact rekindled hopes of the IAF that its efforts at acquiring the urgently needed weapons platforms would finally translate into reality

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  Civil | Round-Up 2014
  Mixed Year
  By R. Chandrakanth

  The industry story is largely positive, but there are a number of risks in today’s global environment—political unrest, conflicts and some weak regional economies—among them

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  Civil | Regional Aviation
  Pan-India Connectivity, Is it for Real?
  By R. Chandrakanth

  A draft policy of the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation proposes to increase trunk routes from 12 to 30 and 87 regional incentive destinations

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  Civil | Engines
  Leap Years Ahead
  By R. Chandrakanth

  CFM estimates that the LEAP can save an airline as much as $1.6 million in fuel costs per plane per year

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  Civil | Cargo
  Foray into Commercial Aviation
  By R. Chandrakanth

  Lockheed Martin will be rolling out in 2017 the LM-100J, the civil freighter version of the C-130J military workhorse

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  2014 in Pictures
  

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  Space | India’s GSLV III
  Successful Launch
  By R. Chandrakanth

  India expects to put astronauts in space in eight years

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  Hall of Fame
  Helen Richey (1909-47)
  By Joseph Noronha

  Helen Richey was the first woman to pilot a commercial flight in the US, the first to fly dedicated air mail flights and one of the first female flight instructors

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  A Word from Editor-in-Chief
  By Jayant Baranwal - Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

  With the new Narendra Modi government coming into power, there was a distinct resurgence of hope that the long pending deals for defence equipment would finally be cleared

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  News with views
  China’s Mision to the Moon
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  As per the state media, on November 1 this year, China completed its first mission to the moon and return to the Earth with the successful re-entry and landing of an unmanned probe. The probe landed safely in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region, state news agency Xinhua said, citing the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre.

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  Last Word
  Make in India for Defence
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  Make in India when applied to the indigenous defence and aerospace industry will be far more complex than imagined.