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CONTENTS | Features

12 AIRCRAFT PARTS
12| Component Refurbishing

Remanufactured, refurbished and re-used parts are becoming increasingly
important to cost effectiveness across a wide range of aircraft parts. But is
the practice safe in the long term?

AIRPORTS
18| Canberra Airport Australia

Canberra has committed to positioning itself the Best Small Airport in the
18 World. It offers international and regional service provision as well as a
superior quality deliver, and was voted Australian Airport of the Year 2013.

AVIATION TECHNOLOGY
22| Power Up: It’s propulsion, Jim, but
22 not as we knew it

Power plants for commercial aircraft have seen massive changes over the
past couple of decades. Faster, leaner, bigger and lighter, they have ushered
in a whole new breed of commercially viable aircraft.
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AIR FREIGHT
27| Cargo Goes Up, East

According to Airbus, the current doldrums afflicting the freight industry will
pass, and the world will see an ever-increasing number of freighters taking
off. And the majority will be zooming over Asia.

FUEL HEDGING
27 28| Juicing the Machine,

Hedging the Bets

Considered unnecessary by many Indian airlines in the past, fuel hedging is
now becoming a survival tool that all aircraft operators are considering, if
not already using. Jay Menon investigates.
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