SP's Aviation - ISSUE No 04-12
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Issue Features
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Multi-Mission Capabilities
By Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. BhatiaAhead of Defexpo 2012, Airbus Military held a press conference briefing the media about the varied products it has on offer for the Indian defence forces—C295, A400M, A330MRTT
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Force-Multipliers - Indigenous AWACS
By Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. BhatiaGiven India’s slow process for even offthe-shelf purchases, failure by DRDO could easily set the country’s medium AEW&C efforts back by another five years or more.
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Army Aviation - Boost Capability
By Lt General (Retd) B.S. PawarThe Army Aviation is the arm of the future, a force-multiplier which can tilt the balance in any future conflict.
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Attack Helicopters - Enhancing Capabilities
By Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. BhatiaWith its first induction into the IAF expected as early as in 2012-13, the LCH could easily beat the Apache induction by a number of years.
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Combat Jets - 5th Gen Aspirations
By Air Marshal (Retd) A.K. TrikhaIndia’s strength must emanate from its own genius. Joint development with the Russians of a fifth generation fighter is a good opportunity for it to leapfrog several steps in establishing a sound research...
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Helicopter - Ready to Serve
By SP’s Special CorrespondentIndia intends to buy 197 helicopters and the race to prove their mettle is on. One of the world’s leading helicopter manufacturers Eurocopter has emerged as the frontrunner with its AS550 C3 Fennec.
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Still a Luxury?
By Group captain (Retd) A.K. SachdevThe whole business aviation community in india eagerly waits for the day when its ‘elitist’ image will be erased and its importance as a tool of national economy will be recognised.
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‘Business jet is a tool which supports our organisations and industry’
Roger Sperry, Regional Senior Vice President for International Sales of Gulfstream
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Efficient Business Tool
By Daniel KeadyMany Hawker Beechcraft products have technologies that allow employees to remain in communication throughout the duration of the flight...
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Better Safe than Sorry
By Joseph Noronha, GoaIndia’s prospective regional carriers may find the going tougher than the major airlines; they need to maintain a strong safety focus.
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India Promising
India’s biannual international exhibition and conference on civil aviation, India Aviation 2012, held from March 14 to 18 at Begumpet, Hyderabad, gestured that the aviation centre of gravity was indeed moving eastwards
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Engine - The Real Power...
...behind the Sukhoi SuperJet 100
By Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey, HyderabadAt India Aviation 2012, Jacques Desclaux, Chairman and CEO of PowerJet, briefed the media about his company and the latest product from its stables...
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Industry - Elettronica: Italian Technology & International Commitment
In the global defence scenario, Elettronica is, nowadays, one of the few European companies exclusively devoted to the design, development and production of systems...
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Russian Aviation for India
The Russian arms export has been rising steadily of late, with JSC Rosoboronexport, which until recently used to be the sole weapons trader for Russia on the international market...
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Frank Whittle (1907-96)
By Group Captain (Retd) Joseph Noronha, GoaA wonderful friend and a man who became the greatest engineer of this century. He was a modest genius and had many attributes other than just sheer technical brilliance.
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A Word from Editor
By Jayant Baranwal - Publisher & Editor-in-ChiefThe combined shopping list of the armed forces is long and varied.
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