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SP's Aviation - ISSUE No 5-2021

Issue Features

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  MILITARY | CHINA
  China’s Growing Air Power
  By Air Marshal Anil Chopra (Retd)

  Increased defence budgeting and speedy indigenisation are the only alternatives for India to match the aggressively growing aerospace might of China

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  MILITARY | CHINA
  IAF vs PLAAF in Eastern Ladakh
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  Would the IAF be able to effectively confront the PLAAF in the event of a large scale conflict that would involve the employment of air power by both sides?

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  MILITARY | TRANSPORT
  World’s Top Multi-Role Military Transport Aircraft
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  The military transport fleet globally has evolved progressively over the years and today is a mix of platforms designed for strategic and tactical roles

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  COVID-19 | SPACE
  Department of Space offers innovative collaborations to manage the Crisis
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  Three ventilators and an oxygen concentrator have been developed by ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and are soon expected to be commercially produced

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  COVID-19 | AIRLINES
  New Normal
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  While uncertainty looms large over global travel’s restoration, the airline industry has to overcome the financial grievances as well as innovate for transforming consumer behavior

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  BUSINESS AVIATION | EUROPE
  Europe witnesses 38,000 flights in April 2021 alone
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  From the start of April through the first week of May, overall, business aviation flight activity in Europe was up 10 per cent on same period in 2020

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  BUSINESS AVIATION | OWNERSHIP
  Best Structured Practices for Acquiring a Business Aircraft
  By Sudhir S. Rajeshirke

  Start with understanding the client’s travel requirements – both current and future and then shortlist aircraft based on this preliminary analysis. Follow it up with educating the client on what best options are suitable for their travel needs.

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  SPACE | COLLABORATION
  NASA teams up with ISRO to mitigate climate change
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  It is no secret that the climate on earth is going through major transformations and we need more efforts towards understanding and addressing these issues.

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  SPACE | CHINA
  China, the second country to establish presence on Mars
  By Ayushee Chaudhary

  With the touchdown of Tianwen-1 on Mars, putting the first section of the country’s permanent space station into orbit, returning the first lunar samples to Earth, and more, China is rapidly strengthening its space presence

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

  For India, increased defence budget and speedy indigenisation are the only alternatives to match the aggressively growing aerospace might of China. Meanwhile there is a grave need to hasten acquiring 114 new jet fighters.

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  NEWS WITH VIEWS
  Self Reliance in the Indian Aerospace Industry
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  In August this year, while addressing a seminar on ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ or Self Reliant India that was organised by the Ministry of Defence (MOD), Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted the Indian armed forces...

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  HALL OF FAME
  Sheila Scott (1922 - 1988)
  By Joseph Noronha

  Sheila Scott was the founder and the first governor of the British branch of “The Ninety-Nines”, an association for licensed women pilots created by Amelia Earhart

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  LAST WORD
  More Aerial Tankers for the Indian Air Force
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  The IAF does need a larger fleet of flight refuelling aircraft as all combat aircraft inducted into the IAF in the future, will have in-flight refuelling capability

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  NEWS DIGEST: MILITARY | ASIA PACIFIC
  DRDO Develops Single Crystal Blades For Helicopter Engine
  

  Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed Single Crystal Blades Technology and supplied 60 of these blades...

• NEWS DIGEST: MILITARY | ASIA PACIFIC
  DRDO Conducts Maiden Trial of Python-5 Air-to-Air Missile
  

  Tejas, India’s indigenous Light Combat Aircraft, added the fifth generation Python-5 Air-to-Air Missile (AAM) in its air-to-air weapons capability in trials conducted on April 27, 2021.

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  NEWS DIGEST: MILITARY | AMERICAS
  Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Project Hydra
  

  Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, the Missile Defence Agency and the US Air Force have successfully linked under Project Hydra a U-2, five F-35s and an F-22 in air and provided real-time fifth Generation data to operators on the ground.

• NEWS DIGEST
  QuickRoundUp
  

  Boeing and the Lufthansa Group on May 03, 2021, announced that the airline group will continue its fleet modernisation with a new order for five Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners.