All Opinion articles – Page 45
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Comment: Single-pilot crews for airliners?
The discussion about one-pilot cockpits is not new, but so far it's been all speculation. Now a manufacturer is talking about it publicly. Could it happen? Should it? Will it?
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Comment: Predicted pilot and engineer demand is unsustainable
Airlines which have stopped investing in the future just to survive the present are in for a shock.
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Comment: A380 must pay its way
Behind the deal for 32 superjumbos at ILA are two questions: does Emirates know what it is doing, and will Airbus - even now - ever make money from its grandiose project?
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Comment: Airlines are required to manage technical and operational risk, so why not fatigue risk?
Fatigue risk management is about to become an established way of coping, globally, with one of the major causes of modern accidents. And about time too. In...
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Comment: Poles apart
After a traumatic transition from the certainties of the controlled market, Poland's aerospace industry is fighting fit and largely foreign-owned, embracing globalisation and creating jobs
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Comment: Revenge of the nerds
When it comes to totally shifting the rotorcraft paradigm, there's nothing for it but to spend some time - as much as it takes - in serious thought.
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Comment: Recorders on business jets - the debate should examine what type, not whether
Small business jets are not required to have flight recorders. The argument for this is simply that they do not carry many people, so the cost-benefit analysis does not add up.
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Comment: In-flight anachronism?
Smart gadgets like iPads, laptops and 3G mobile phones give us the world of music, movies and on-the-move communications - but airliners may still need built-in entertainment systems
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Comment: F-35: it's not for children
From this point forward, the F-35 programme starts growing up, or it begins falling apart.
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Comment: Cry wolf?
Airbus's war of words with Boeing is being cranked up a notch as they prepare to do battle in the changing market for single-aisle airliners.
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Comment: Through the ash
Airlines are clearly confused about how decisions are made on volcanic ash and safety, because there are lots of differences between aviation authorities - and they can't all be right
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Comment: Fools' gold
Who remembers the good old days? What fun we had. How distant they seem. The business jet makers partied hard in that far-off age of 2006-08.
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Comment: Anchors away
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stared down the air force and army over big acquisition deals. Now it looks like he's turning his formidable firepower on the navy and marines
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Comment: Has Airbus learned from A380 errors?
Airbus has been spouting the over-used phrase "lessons learned" as it explains how it will avoid repeating A380 mistakes on the A350.
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Comment: If aviation wants to run a 'just culture' reporting system, it may have to change tack
Aviation may have to change tack if it wants to achieve a 'just' safety reporting culture that the judiciary can live with.
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Comment: Will lightning strike twice for EADS?
Boeing, perhaps more than anyone, should be thankful its rival EADS decided to take one final shot at the KC-X tanker contract.
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Comment: European authorities accept a higher risk to safety
Europe has had to make a decision about how to deal with atmospheric volcanic ash when it cannot be avoided. That judgement has been taken carefully, but should be kept under review
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Comment: The odd couples
Whether it's the changing nature of the industry, or desperation to access new markets and grow at all costs, intriguing partnerships which would have previously been downright bizarre are emerging. Perhaps opposites really can be attractive in today's airline business
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Comment: Obama in volte-face on space
The opponents of president Barack Obama's NASA flexible path plan won a victory last week when the head of state resurrected the cancelled Orion crew exploration vehicle - albeit a scaled-down version.