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FIGHTING THE
INVISIBLE ENEMY

the lead of airlines and OEMS on
addressing cybersecurity issues
C OMMERCIAL A V IA TION / MRO The MRO industry has to follow
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INTERVIEW:
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END OF AN ERA INDIA RISING
Airbus A380 reaches Sensing intense demand, MRO
the end of the runway service providers and OEMs are
scouting to establish their
09 facilities in India

GIANT IN 29
THE MAKING
Boeing’s 777X has a clear field, LUCRATIVE
following Airbus’s decision OPPORTUNITY
to end A380 production Military MRO is in the
midst of a transformation
11 33 Also working for the 747 was that it was the first wide-body and

COMPOSITE End of thus its passenger appeal was staggering and for quite some time
the jumbo as the world’s longest-range aircraft. Only in the past
CHALLENGE INTERVIEW: 25 years have aircraft like the 777-200ER been able to equal or
Benefits offered by composite ESG ELEKTRONIKSYSTEM-UND better its range.
materials are further supporting LOGISTIK GMBH
their increased adoption Nothing Quite Like it
35 an Era When the A380 appeared, in the middle of the last decade, it was
15 SEARCHING for most passengers just another wide-body aircraft and it didn’t
have the longest range – the smaller and more flexible and reliable
INTERVIEW: FOR SUCCESS Boeing 777-200LR held that trophy. Apart from a full double deck,
it actually didn’t offer anything new and its economics credentials
CEBU PACIFIC Sukhoi’s SuperJet regional jetliner AIRBUS A380 SUPER JUMBO were not the giant leap that the 747 was over the 707.
needs more export orders REACHES THE END OF THE
17 37 RUNWAY All through aviation history, giants of the sky such as the Bristol
Brabazon, Lockheed Constitution, Convair XC-99, Saro Princess
HUNGRY MRO NEWS and Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose failed dismally, largely because
FOR A PIE Geoffrey Thomas they were way too big. BOAC looked at the Brabazon and rejected
it. Pan Am even ordered 15 of the 204-seat six-engine Convair
South East Asian nations are Much loved by passengers but hated by airline XC-99 with a Convair newsletter in 1945 boasting that the aircraft
trying to draw aircraft related accountants, history will judge the Airbus A380, was 12 times bigger than the DC-3. Its wing was so big that mechan-
business from overseas which was canceled last month, as just another ics could walk around inside to make any engine repairs required
giant aircraft that never really worked. Only the inflight and passengers would have suites and lounges. However,
Boeing 747, designed at the outset as a cargo the economic reality soon sunk in and Pan Am scrapped the deal.
aircraft, that could carry passengers until the
supersonic jets like the Concorde and Boeing Even modest giants such as the Douglas DC-4E had to be scaled
2707 “took over” has succeeded with sales of back to the standard DC-4, while Boeing’s “giant” B337 Stratocruiser
1,572. And it is still in production as a freighter. only chalked up 56 sales, while Douglas and Lockheed’s compet-

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