SP's Aviation - ISSUE No 05-09
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Issue Features
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Rejuvenate Combat Squadrons
By SP's TeamChief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik spoke to SP’s Aviation a few days prior to taking over the reins of the Indian Air Force.
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Business Aviation - $ense & $urvival
By Group Captain (Retd) Joseph Noronha, GoaShould business jet owners rush for the exit and divest themselves of their wings while they can? It would be wiser, perhaps, to hang on and weather the storm.
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Aero Engines - The Hype & the Hyper
By Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. Bhatia, New DelhiToday, practically all the frontline fighters of the world use turbofan jet engines. For tomorrow, one concept fast gaining momentum is that of HYPERSONIC flight.
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MMRCA Q&A Dr Vivek Lall - Vice-President and India Country Head, Boeing IDS
By Sangeeta SaxenaBoeing ready to share RFP specified technologies
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Stefan Billep - Head, Eurofighter Typhoon, India
By Sangeeta SaxenaTyphoon comes with twin engine, very good payload
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Book Review - An Icon Unveiled
By Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. BhatiaThe Icon—An Authorised Biography of Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, DFC; by Air Commodore Jasjit Singh AVSM, VrC, VM (Retd); published by KW Publishers Pvt Ltd in association with Centre for Air Power Studies (New Delhi); price: Rs 880/$25
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Equipment - Radar Resonance for Rafale
By Our Special CorrespondentDassault Aviation opts for the RBE2 AESA from Thales for its omni role fighter aircraft
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Industry - Magnificent Yak-130 for the Indian Air Force
By Rajiv KumarVarious experts have been highly estimating the latest Russian combat training aircraft – Yak-130. The aircraft has been selected as a main vehicle for basic and advanced Russian Air Force pilots’ training.
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EBACE ’09 - Bruising Lap Ahead
By Alan Peaford, Geneva, SwitzerlandAt the annual European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition in Geneva, one prediction was that corporate aircraft deliveries would take three years to recover to 2008 levels, assuming the economy bounces back next year and sales recover in 2012
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Amy Johnson (1903 – 1941)
By Group Captain (Retd) Joseph Noronha, GoaAmy Johnson was barely 27 and had been flying for less than two years when she undertook her epic solo flight from Britain to Australia on May 5, 1930—covering almost 14,000 km in 19 days.
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Elettronica S.p.A. - Swift & Silent
New lessons from the latest conflicts and leading edge technology solutions
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OEM - The Boeing Partnership in India
By Dr Vivek Lall, Vice President and India Country Head, Boeing IDSBoeing hopes to prove itself and its products worthy to win a share of the country’s enormous market
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M-346 First Flight - Master Formation
By Our Special CorrespondentThe 60-minute flight comprising three aircraft was made by the two prototypes of Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master and LRIP00, while the M-311 aircraft acted as camera ship
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Paris Air Show ’09 - All Eyes on Le Bourget
By Sangeeta Saxena, Chief Special Correspondent, New DelhiThis year, the event will mark 100 years of technological innovation in aeronautics and space conquest
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Business Aviation Economics - Cessna: Multiply the Benefits
By Trevor Esling, Vice President, International Sales, CessnaThe owner’s benefit of ownership starts with a well-designed and easily maintainable product
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Business Aviation - Gulfstream: Your Office in the Sky
By Roger Sperry, Division Vice President, International Sales, GulfstreamA Gulfstream business jet cabin is as functional as any office or boardroom
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Lockheed Martin F-16IN - Experience It, First-Hand
By Orville Prins Vice President, Business Development, Lockheed Martin, IndiaDelineating the strike role capabilities Of the F-16IN Super Viper
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Commercial Aviation - Leaving on a Jet Plane
By Group Captain (Retd) Joseph Noronha, GoaMid-1970s, attracted by the speed and comfort of the new jetliners, passengers responded enthusiastically and numbers soared
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