Op-Ed Columnists – Page 24
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Comment: A400M faces long haul
Airbus Military's new boss has set a June target to secure a continued commitment from his European customers. But with the airlifter yet to fly, should he expect a positive response?
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Comment: hard work starts now for the dream team
After almost two years lurching from crisis to crisis following its much trumpeted "7/8/07" roll-out, the Dreamliner is finally close to its maiden flight. Since...
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Comment: can a 'successful' sector expect support?
When is a bailout not a bailout? When it's your industry sector that's benefiting. In calling for "attention and support" from public authorities,...
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Comment: mind the hangar talk
Aerospace bosses need to understand that in an age where communication is dominated by information instantly uploaded to the worldwide web it cannnot rigidly control the media
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Comment: Rotary wing safety analysis derives globally applicable lessons
Early analyses of rotary-wing safety conducted under the International Helicopter Safety Team initiative suggest that the most obvious lessons could usefully be applied globally
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Comment: Pushing the envelope too far
The US Air Force has fully come to grips with the lessons from a Northrop T-38C crash last year that claimed the lives of two pilots. But the accident again...
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Comment: Taste of fear
With the low-cost sector facing "the toughest revenue environment in its history", the spectre of failure is very real for many players. How are the management teams of these carriers equipped to battle through the crisis?
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COMMENT: toxic cabin air and who occupies the moral low ground
A major airline has been caught ignoring incidents of cabin air contamination, like its rivals. But the real moral low ground belongs to the regulators who still aren't pressing for action
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Comment: Doing it the Mexico way
There are few better indicators of how borderless aerospace has become than Mexico's ascendancy as a manufacturing powerhouse. With no aerospace heritage...
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Comment: ICAO should set up santions against states that fail to prepare for performance-based navigation
It would be fantastic to wave a magic wand and bring performance-based navigation to the globe in a flash. In this ideal world, all the just-post-war...
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Comment: Gates opens door to US military reform
Can the US Secretary of Defense's spending attack on the military-industry complex succeed where predecessor Donald Rumsfeld's failed? This could be the perfect moment for change
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Comment: Will Bombardier win CSeries gamble?
Developing a major new aircraft type is always risky. For Bombardier, however, the CSeries carries more than a whiff of a high-stakes roll of the dice. Simply,...
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Comment: Too tired for science
Flight time limitations regulation was never going to be framed according to a single set of considerations. But the optimum solution should at least take medical research into account
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Comment: Fatal distraction
Another of those uncanny studies has been produced. The type that produces a conclusion that - once you have read it - is so obvious that it's suddenly amazing...
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Comment: Split US tanker deal is a bad deal
Dividing the troubled USAF KC-X tanker contest between its two competitors, Boeing and Northrop Grumman, may be politically expedient- but that is about the only thing in its favour
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Comment: It's official: the law hinders aviation safety advance
When aviation accidents happen because regulations and accepted practices have been deliberately ignored, the law has its place. But not when unintended mistakes are made
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Comment: Coming in under the radar
If Boeing's claims about its "stealthy" F-15 Silent Eagle are accurate, Lockheed Martin might have some explaining to do to international customers of its...
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Comment: Business travel continues sharp decline
Business travel demand began its sharp decline in September and this has fast become a global phenomenon. Airlines are responding with steeper price cuts than those seen in economy, but will this leave business travellers with new expectations?
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Comment: A400M reality yet to bite for EADS
EADS has drawn up a shopping list of A400M contract renegotiation demands - it includes a revised delivery schedule, new delivery standards, slowed production...