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Making the Right Move
By Joseph Noronha, Goa
A comprehensive regional airline policy needs to be formulated that truly encourages entrepreneurs to float small regional airlines and take air connectivity to the remote parts of the country |
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Reducing Noise & Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Jose Eduardo Costas
Embraer has researched and studied new technologies for reducing internal and external noise levels, for greater comfort of passengers, and to lessen the impact on airports and surroundings |
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Towards Carbon-neutral Growth
By R. Chandrakanth
Bombardier is not just defining luxury in business jets but also working on aircraft development to make the jets more environmental friendly |
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OEM - MBDA offers Stockpile Management Services to Users
Stockpile Management Services consists of an innovative process supported by adequate methodologies and IT tools to give life cost savings of up to 30 per cent, effective SMS allows MBDA to confidently predict significant life extension regarding the customer’s missile stock. |
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Industry - US Aerospace Majors
By Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey, Bengaluru
US based companies have led the way for several innovations and developments in aerospace. Browse through the third part of the article to know more about the initiatives of companies like Raytheon and Honeywell. |
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OEM - Innovative, Comprehensive & Systematic approach…
By Admiral (Retd) Walter F. Doran, President, Raytheon Asia for Raytheon International
…to predict, deter, detect, identify and classify, respond and resolve and enable countries to address a wide range of current and emerging threats |
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Technology - C4ISR the Buzzword
By Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. Bhatia
The ability to collect, process and disseminate the flow of information leading to increased mission space awareness and subsequent dominance constitutes the essence of presentday air operations |
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OEM - Customised Solutions
Wallop designs, manufactures and supplies a wide range of airborne passive countermeasure chaff (RF) and Infra Red (IR) decoys for use in a wide variety of dispensing systems |
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| Hall of Fame |
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Louise Thaden (1905 - 1979)
By Group Captain (Retd) Joseph Noronha, Goa
On April 29, 1929, she set the women’s endurance record of 22 hours, 3 minutes, 12 seconds. A month later, she set a new speed mark of 156 mph, thus becoming the only woman to hold all three records simultaneously. |
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OEM - Selling Corporate Aircraft
By Trevor Esling
We have every reason to be optimistic for the future and with a little help from Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’, the markets and market confidence will return strongly as the world economy moves forward |
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Take to the air via iPad
By SP’s Aviation News Desk
Tecnam ground school and flight lesson courseware through interactive, mobile data platforms such as the Apple iPad |
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Aerobatics in the Air
By SP’s Aviation News Desk
Rockwell Collins and DARPA demonstrate UAV aerobatics on a fixed trajectory |
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Project Firefly
… Sikorsky’s electric helicopter demonstrator flight is anticipated later this year |
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