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March 2017 Front Cover AEROSPACE 2017 March 44 Number 3 Volume Society Royal Aeronautical March 2017 DRONE DELIVERIES TAKE-OFF HUMAN FACTORS – IS YOUR ORGANISATION LISTENING? MANCHESTER AIRPORT’S NEW www.aerosociety.com SIGNING BRIGHT SPARKS ELECTRIC FLIGHT PIONEERS SET SIGHTS ON SPEED Have you renewed your Membership Subscription for 2017? Any unpaid memberships will lapse on 31 March 2017* As per the Society’s Regulations all How to renew: membership benefits will be suspended where Online: a payment for an individual subscription has Log in to your account on the Society’s www.aerosociety.com not been received after three months of the due website to pay at . If you date. *However, this excludes members paying do not have an account, you can register online their annual subscriptions by Direct Debits in and pay your subscription straight away. monthly installments. 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Volume 44 Number 3 Bright sparks March 2017 Can Drone deliveries – Electrofl ight’s a fi rst class service? innovative How far are we 14 all-electric air Flirtey Airborne 18 away from the fi rst racer speed commercial UAV- up progress in package delivery Contents green aviation? service? Correspondence on all aerospace matters is welcome at: The Editor, AEROSPACE, No.4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ, UK [email protected] Comment Regulars 4 Radome 12 Transmission The latest aviation and Your letters, emails, tweets aeronautical intelligence, and feedback. analysis and comment. 58 The Last Word Best laid plans 10 Antenna Keith Hayward draws Howard Wheeldon warns parallels between the of the perils of international cancelled 1960’s Skybolt It is perhaps no surprise that, once again, UK defence budgets are in crisis. trade protectionism. missile programme and the After extensive costcutting, the 2015 SDSR seemed to promise a fi rm current status of the F-35. plan for equipment procurement. Even during last year’s tumultuous Brexit summer, key commitments for P-8 Poseidon MPAs and AH-64E Apaches were fi rmed up – a clear win for air power. While UK defence had not left the Features dark tunnel of the ‘£38bn budget black hole’, it did seem, at last, to be moving towards the light. Unfortunately, someone now seems to have switched the tracks, and the defence procurement train has diverted back into darkness Lockheed Martin Lockheed on another line. Costs have already risen by one-fi fth and gobbled up the Martyn Cartledge £10.7bn headroom built into the MoD’s budget. Furthermore, equipment acquisition costs are expected to rise 20% over the next decade, with support 32 costs rising 30%. On top of this is extra costs caused by the weak pound, 22 Manchester’s new signing given that US equipment is priced in dollars. While the MoD builds into its Plane Speaking Manchester becomes the procurement plans hedging against currency fl uctuations, this mitigation only An interview with Peter fi rst non-London airport in lasts two years. Another bit of recent defence news is also cause for concern Ruddock, CE of Lockheed the UK to operate an A350 Martin UK. service with Singapore – namely that the watchdog National Audit Offi ce (NAO) is now going to Airways. have reduced oversight over MoD Major Projects. With another budget 26 Achieving peak safety squeeze and more diffi cult choices ahead, is this really the right time for the performance: listening 34 Creating the world of MoD to be able to mark its own homework? This defence budget pressure and learning tomorrow? Are organisations listening Encouraging innovation in and the removal of the overhead for unexpected equipment costs comes at and responding to the aerospace. the worst possible time as the geopolitical situation is the most volatile it has safety concerns of their been for 80 years. Potential sparks to regional or even world confl icts abound employees? as the world shifts into a new era of 19th century nation-state powerplays and diplomacy by Twitter. The aftermath of Brexit may end up being the least Barry Jones of anyone’s problems in this age of global political crisis. Royal Navy Royal Tim Robinson 30 38 [email protected] Da Vinci decoded Let there be light aircraft NEWS IN BRIEF Leonardo consolidates its Have new CAA experimental UK business activities as aircraft regulations encouraged Editor-in-Chief AEROSPACE is published by the Royal AEROSPACE subscription rates: Leonardo MW. new UK GA designs? Tim Robinson Aeronautical Society (RAeS). 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Champlain New York and additional 48 The quest for a fl yable Additional features and content +44 (0)20 7670 4354 offi ces. [email protected] Printed by Buxton Press Limited, spacecraft are available to view online on Palace Road, Buxton, Derbyshire Postmaster: Send address changes www.media.aerosociety.com/ Book Review Editor SK17 6AE, UK to IMS of New York, PO Box 1518, 50 Corporate Partners Champlain NY 12919-1518, USA. aerospace-insight Brian Riddle 52 Diary Including: Fly by light laser-powered aircraft, Editorial Offi ce Distributed by Royal Mail 55 Obituaries Turkey’s TF-X fi ghter, Flights of Royal Aeronautical Society ISSN 2052-451X fancy propellantless propulsion, RAeS Pakistan No.4 Hamilton Place 56 RAeS Elections Division, In the February issue of London W1J 7BQ, UK AEROSPACE +44 (0)20 7670 4300 , Cabin doors to Brexit, Giant lenses in the sky. [email protected] Ed Hicks, fl yer.co.uk www.aerosociety.com Front cover: Electrofl ight P1e electric racing aircraft. @aerosociety i Find us on LinkedIn f Find us on Facebook www.aerosociety.com MARCH 2017 13 Radome INTELLIGENCE / ANALYSIS / COMMENT Upgraded cockpit Large area display Digital head-up display Ground proximity warning system Autopilot Traffi c collision avoidance system Datalink Sensor simulation BAE Systems Flight systems Air-to-air refuelling On board oxygen generation system Enhanced braking system Stores capability Nose wheel steering Smart weapons enabled Additional engine thrust Laser designation pod Full authority digital engine control Centre line dual purpose fuel/ baggage pod BAE Systems 4 AEROSPACE / MARCH 2017 Performance boost Increased thrust and the active slat wing means: 17% improved rate-of-climb 20% reduced turn-radius 25% improved turn-rate Defensive aids suite Counter measure dispensing system Radar warning receiver BAE Systems Upgraded wing Active slat leading edge Upgraded combat flap BAE Systems W DEFENCE Hawk eyes new heights A jointly developed Anglo-Indian variant of the Hawk, the Advanced Hawk prototype has been unveiled at the AeroIndia exhibition by BAE Systems and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). Aimed at the LIFT and light attack mission, the Advanced Hawk features an active slat wing, extra thrust, AAR probe, defensive aid suite, new single display for the cockpit and smart weapons integration. The result is an expanded higher performance envelope and a light fi ghter combat capability. @aerosociety i Find us on LinkedIn f Find us on Facebook www.aerosociety.com MARCH 2017 5 Radome DEFENCE SPACEFLIGHT Argentina gives up hunt Whitehall announces £10m boost for new fi ghters to UK space sector After news reports linking The Argentinian Air the acquisition of IAI Kfi rs, Force (Fuerza Aérea MiG-29s, JF-17s Arg Argentina: FAA) entin ian A and other ir retired its Dassault F o r c combat aircraft, e Mirage fl eet Argentina has in November offi cially given 2015, with up looking for the A-4ARs, a replacement which were The UK Government has announced a £10m incentive scheme to stimulate a UK- for its 32 A-4AR modernised by based commercial launch capability for the UK space sector.
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