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Saturday flight fever
4 News
Technology Spotlight
12 Definitively digital – Digital manufacturing
The 47th Paris Air Show was indeed a
Avionics
resounding success for many, particularly
14 Ride the lightning – Electromagnetic modelling
Airbus which secured enough firm orders
Electronics manufacturing
and commitments for additional aircraft to
22 Delivering excellence – Total solutions
put it back in the running with arch rival
Boeing. On a personal note, the event was
Airliners
gratifying as visitors walked away with
24 A new way of working – Airbus A380
10,000 copies of Aerospace Manufacturing Machining
and the temperatures proved to be 26 Tackling titanium – Cutting titanium
somewhat kinder than those experienced
UAVs
at Farnborough last year (particularly
29 A watching brief for a tactical UAV –
important to a journo trawling the event).
Watchkeeper TUAV
Visitors to Le Bourget included none other than Grease and Pulp
Fiction star John Travolta. Mr Travolta, as many know, is a licensed
Aero-engines
jet pilot with a life-long passion for aviation and more than 5,000
32 From race track to the airfield – Piston production
flying hours under his belt since earning his wings in 1974.
Supply chain
A few years back, as ambassador at large for Qantas airline he
34 The road to lean – Lean manufacturing
was given the keys to a 747-400ER extended range jet – though
Software
not to keep – at which time he stated “if it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t
36 Integrating operations – Enterprise resource
going”. In Paris last month, however, it seemed to be a certain
planning
European manufactured aircraft that got him ‘going’ as he
38 Ensuring shuttle safety – DSSP technology
reminded journalists about his taking the controls of an Airbus
A380 as co-pilot in Australia last November. “I did fly that A380 you
Strategic outsourcing
know and I’m telling you it’s a very easy plane to fly but technically
40 Partnering for vital services – Thermal
complicated,” he was reported to say. Adding: “It was a privilege to
processing and testing
be able to be the first (non-test) pilot to fly it.”
42 Industry Round-Up
Though, it has to be mentioned, Mr Travolta was also invited to fly
Boeing’s F/A-18 fighter on the Saturday of the show, time allowing.
Final Approach
46 Good advice – Steve Johnston, Chairman, NACAM
Next issue: Asian Aerospace special report,
RICHARD BURTON | EDITOR Engines & propulsion, Interiors, Advanced manufacturing,
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