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Contents 32 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 A UK hybrid-electric future? 10 Antenna Keith Hayward looks back Howard Wheeldon looks 70 years at UK aerospace ahead at the prospects for the in 1948 and its lessons for Over half a century ago, strange delta-winged aircraft flew in British skies, aerospace industry in 2018. today. portending a future of high-speed passenger flight. These prototypes, the BAC 221 (the modified Fairey Delta 2) and the Handley Page HP.115, were tested in the early 1960s to support the development of a supersonic airliner – which would eventually enter service as the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde. Features CNES NASA That future faded with the retirement of this iconic airliner in 2003. However, on 28 November at the RAeS HQ in London, an agreement was signed that 36 may, one day, perhaps be looked back on as one of the key moments in an exciting new era of low-carbon, commercial flight. The agreement, signed by Airbus, Rolls-Royce and Siemens, is for a flying hybrid-electric demonstrator aircraft, based on a BAe 146, which is set to fly in 2020 and may potentially be 18 the first British (with international partners) civil X-plane in over half a century. At the press conference, the project partners were coy on where the aircraft Making the best use of might be modified and test flown. Traditionally, the involvement of Airbus might space Manned engineering point to Toulouse but with the E-Fan X being based on a BAe aircraft platform, An overview of the RAeS Career opportunities in the President’s conference on civil UAV sector for it may be that this hybrid-electric demonstrator is flown from the UK. 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Power management Siemens will supply the 2MW electric motor, as well as the motor power electronics and the inverter, DC/DC converter and power distribution system.

APU on steroids Providing power to a 2MW generator (the most powerful ever flown, according to Rolls-Royce), will be a R-R AE2100 gas turbine, normally used to power the C-130. Note intake for this turbine in rear fuselage.

Electric thrust A single Honeywell turbofan will be swapped for a 2MW Siemens electric motor. The fan and nacelle will use an existing R-R design from its AE3007 engine. The 146 was chosen as a four-engined aircraft, as it provides a safety margin and allows the team to potentially convert a second turbofan to electric power if initial tests are successful. Airbus

4 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 Optimising flight Aimed to fly in 2020, the E-Fan X will explore thermal effects, power management, altitude and dynamic effects and electromagnetic issues of this 3,000volt power system. On a production hybrid-electric airliner, adding additional power from the batteries for the most energy intensive phases of flight will allow a smaller turbofan to be used in cruise, dramatically reducing fuel burn.

Flightdeck Airbus will supply the cockpit HMI (human machine interface) for the E-Fan X, as well as the HEPS (hybrid electric propulsion system) ‘e-Supervisor’.

AEROSPACE E-Fan X charges ahead Officially announced at the Royal Aeronautical Society HQ on 28 November was a partnership between airframer Airbus, engine-maker Rolls-Royce and electrics specialist Siemens to develop a hybrid-electric flight demonstrator called the E-Fan X. Based on a BAe 146 RJ, the E-Fan X, set to fly in 2020, will be used to explore hybrid-electric flight, which promises lower noise and 'double digit' fuel savings – opening up new possibilities for greener, quieter regional airliners in the 2030s.

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GENERAL AVIATION AEROSPACE The Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC) has carried out what it says is 'a first' in Pilatus PC-24 awarded aviation safety with collision testing between a small UAV and passenger aircraft. The certification testing, on 30 November at an AVIC facility in Xiangbei, saw a DJI drone and the nose section of a civil airliner impact at representative speeds, Switzerland’s Pilatus PC-24 is Pilatus’ first using a moving sled. Initial test results showed that, while the outer windshield was Aircraft has announced business jet aircraft. The cracked, the inner still held firm. that, on 7 December, aircraft racked up its new PC-24 some 2,205hrs

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awarded both a using three f European t prototypes. EASA and First deliveries US FAA type are imminent with certification. First the first PC-24 to be Drone collision testing makes announced in 2013, with delivered to a customer in a first flight in 2015, the the US this month. progress in China CAAC DEFENCE AIR TRANSPORT Qatar fast-tracks fighter fleet Avolon firms up order for 75 737 MAXs

Dublin-based airliner into 55 MAX 8s 20 of lessor Avolon has the latest MAX 10s with finalised a previous options for a further order for 75 20 MAX 8s. First

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i n a single squadron of Mirage 2000-5s. On 10 December Qatar signed a contract MAX aircraft, g to begin in to acquire 25 Eurofighter Typhoons from the UK, along with a weapons package originally 2021. Avolon

RAF that includes Meteor and Brimstone missiles and a QEAF and RAF JOS (Joint Dassault placed as has over Operational Squadron) which will act as the nucleus of Qatar's expanded fighter a MoU at 140 MAXs in force. This follows the signing of a LoI in September. the Paris Air its owned and  Meanwhile, on 7 December, during a state visit of French President Macron, Show in 2017. The committed fleet with Qatar added a further 12 Dassault Rafales to an existing order for 24 Rafales order, valued a $11bn at a total managed fleet of signed in May 2015. In June 2017, Qatar signed a deal for 36 Boeing F-15QAs. list prices, breaks down over 900 aircraft.

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fleet after problems with incident, where the ten small Earth observation 51% owned by Pipistrel. The UK Aerospace Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 AW101, the first of 16 all- satellites for Spire Global The minority partner will Technology Institute (ATI) engine turbine blades weather SAR helicopters and two Astro Digital be Danny Wu Hao who has announced £54m wearing out faster than for the RNoAF, was only remote-sensing satellites. will build a new GA airport worth of new research and expected. Other airlines delivered on 17 November. and business park over the development grants to may follow suit until full European glider next two years to serve as seven aerospace projects. inspections have been A payload of 19 satellites manufacturer Pipistrel is the home base for the new The funding allocated carried out and the extent was lost on 29 November to partner with a Chinese company. includes R&D into open of the issue known. after the Fregat upper company to build its Alpha architecture, 3D printing, stage of the Russian Electro electric trainer and Hybrid Air Vehicles’ engine integration, the The Norwegian Air Force Soyuz-2.1b rocket failed to the hybrid version of the (HAV) Airlander 10 was Zephyr UAV and cabin air has rolled over a week-old achieve orbit. The mission, Panthera high-performance automatically deflated sensor technology. Leonardo AW101 SAR which was launched aircraft in a new aviation after the 304ft hybrid helicopter during ground from the Vostochny development near Nanjing. airship broke loose from Air New Zealand has runs at Sola Air Base on Cosmodrome, was carrying The new company, Pipistrel its mobile mooring mast grounded some of its 24 November. No-one a payload including a Asia Pacific General at Cardington on 18 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner was injured in the overturn Meteor-M weather satellite Aviation Technology, will be November.

6 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 AIR TRANSPORT SPACEFLIGHT

Boom given a boost SpaceX’s Elon Musk has apparently revealed that the test payload for the first with JAL investment flight of his Falcon Heavy rocket, to be launched in early 2018, will be a Tesla roadster electric car, aimed towards Mars. Telling his followers on Twitter that Japan Airlines (JAL) is to have committed to buy up “Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. invest $10m into new start- to 76 Boom SSJs, with Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years up and supersonic jet JAL the second airline or so if it doesn’t blow up on ascent.” Musk then confirmed the (SSJ) builder Boom after Virgin Galactic unusual payload to journalists online. and will pre-order B to go public. SpaceX has a history of tongue-in-cheek o

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i teases 55-seat Mach c ‘Baby Boom’ cheese into space 2.2-capable demonstrator as its Mars road aircraft scheduled aircraft this year and first Dragon payload, to naming to enter service in the is set to issue a request for the uncrewed rocket landing barges trip for mid-2020s. A total of five proposals for a site for its after science fiction novelist Iain M Banks’ spaceships. airlines, including JAL, factory early in 2018. Tesla car SpaceX GENERAL AVIATION DEFENCE Textron launches new Tupolev rolls out first SkyCourier utility twin Tu-160M2 bomber Russian manufacturer NK-32-02 engines is Tupolev rolled out its scheduled for February first new-build 2018, with Tu-160M2 production to strategic start in 2021.

A bomber from C As well as new the Kazan engines, the Textron Aviation has launched its new twin-engined Cessna 408 SkyCourier Aviation M2 features turboprop together with the announcement of a 100-aircraft order from freight plant on 16 modernised carrier FedEx.To be introduced in 2020, the SkyCourier features wing struts, fixed landing gear and a large cargo door designed for freight operations. The new November. mission systems. aircraft is also a similar size to the Beech 1900 which ceased production in 2002. First flight of the Production of the Tu-160 FedEx plans to use the SkyCourier to replace its fleet of Cessna 208 Caravans supersonic aircraft fitted ceased in 2007, with 16 in and ATR 42s. with new Kuznetsov service. Textron Aviation Textron

The incident occurred showed signs of an based at Nevatim air base, delay in delivery of the Jetranger X, with only five shortly after the airship imminent eruption. Ngurah with the IAF to receive ESA service module and H120s delivered in 2016. had completed its sixth Rai airport was first a further six F-35Is in a tornado that struck a test flight. Two people closed on 27 November, 2018, out of an eventual production site in New According to Sky News, are reported to have cancelling over 400 flights commitment for 50. Orleans in February the UK will remain in the received minor injuries and and stranding 59,000 2017. European Aviation Safety the unoccupied airship passengers. Lombok NASA officials have Agency (EASA) after the received damage to its airport, which is 117km again postponed the Airbus Helicopters country exits the EU in envelope. from Ngurah Rai, re- first unmanned launch is to discontinue the 2019 as part of Brexit. opened after a temporary date of its Space Launch slow-selling H120 light Whitehall has faced Ngurah Rai (Denpasar) closure. System (SLS) and single helicopter from pressure from airlines and airport in Bali, Indonesia, Orion capsule to June its product line. The industry bodies to continue was closed after the The Israeli Air Force has 2020. The programme H120 Colibri has faced to be a member of EASA nearby Mount Agung declared its Lockheed is reported to have increased competition at some level given the volcano emitted plumes of Martin F-35I ‘Adir’ stealth suffered from a number from Robinson’s turbine impending deadline and volcanic ash at 25,000ft fighters as combat ready. of setbacks, including powered R66, as well costs of repatriating above the summit and Nine aircraft are now technical problems, a as the new Bell 505 powers back to the CAA.

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AIR TRANSPORT DEFENCE Philippines picks Super Lessor adds to China’s ICBC Financial Leasing has placed an order for 55 COMAC Tucano for CAS C919 backlog C919 narrowbodies, taking its total commitments for the new airliner to 100. The Philippines has Islamic insurgents on the The orderbook for the C919 now stands selected Embraer’s A-29 southern island of Mindanao. at 785, with the second prototype set to Super Tucano as its new The deal, worth some $99m, fly asAEROSPACE goes to press. light strike/ includes training COIN platform. and logistics

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to acquire six r aircraft, saw the Super Tucano Super Tucano light attack/ shortlisted over trainer turboprops, rival offers from which will replace its aging Aero Vodochody with OV-10B Broncos currently its L-39NG and Textron in service – which have Beechcraft with its AT-6

COMAC seen action recently fighting Wolverine. GENERAL AVIATION AEROSPACE

UK start-up Faradair has announced it has begun wind-tunnel and flight tests of UK crackdown on ‘rogue a sub-scale model of its BEHA (Bio-Electric-Hybrid-Aircraft) triplane commuter drone’ operators aircraft. As well as the model tests, the H600 hybrid engine will begin testing by the end of 2018, says Faradair. New UK legislation criminal activities, such as Faradair begins sub-scale covering the use of UAVs carrying drugs or weapons will include compulsory to prisoners inside jail. The flight tests flight safety awareness bill also seeks to introduce testing for owners of software ‘geofencing’ for drones weighing more commercial UAVs over than 250g. The proposed 250g to prevent them Spring 2018 bill, will also flying near airports or over include new powers being above a height of 400ft, given to police to be able as well as compulsory to seize drones used in registration for larger UAVs. Faradair NEWS IN BRIEF

interim AL-41s that power (HAPS) UAVs each Qatar Airways is to the Su-35 and which have Bell Helicopter's 505 company is working on. Correction ‘up-gauge’ a previous been used on the nine Jet Ranger X light single Both are developing long In the December issue of 2011 deal for 50 PAK-FA test aircraft so far. helicopter received EASA endurance solar-powered AEROSPACE on p 53 of ‘Afterburner’ a picture caption Airbus A320neos, to 50 . type certification on 11 UAVs (Airbus with its identified an Airbus ACJ319 A321neos. The A321neos A Long March 6 rocket November. First delivery Zephyr, Facebook with cabin as being ‘operated by will include the new carried three Chinese to a European customer Aquila), that may have MJet’. It should have been an ACJ319 operated by Acropolis Airbus Cabin Flex option, Earth-observation satellites is scheduled to take place commercial uses to deliver Aviation. allowing up to 240 into orbit on 21 November. shortly. localised broadband data, passengers. Launched from the connectivity or surveillance. We apologise for any confusion Taiyuan space centre, the Internet giant Facebook The joint approach will caused. Russias’ UAC has flown three Jilin Earth-imaging and OEM Airbus are help lobby organisations the first Sukhoi Su-57 satellites, Jilin 1-04, Jilin to team up to press such as the International prototype with a production 1-05 and Jilin 1-06, are lawmakers and regulators Telecommunications standard NPO Saturn owned by the Chang to help accelerate the Union (ITU) on allocating ‘Product 30’ engine Guang Satellite Technology development of High spectrum for HAPS  installed – rather than the Co. Altitude Pseudo Satellite operations.

8 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 AEROSPACE GENERAL AVIATION Familiar name joins A350-1000 certificated flying car race On 21 November, Airbus received EASA and FAA type certification for its The latest company to (PAT200) is a hybrid- newest widebody, the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-97-powered, A350-1000. The reveal plans to develop a electric tilt-wing VTOL flight test campaign, which lasted less than a year, used three prototypes, VTOL aerial taxi for urban vehicle with space for which racked up some 1,600 flight hours. AsAEROSPACE goes to press, first mobility, is US start-up two passengers and delivery of the A350-1000 to launch customer Qatar Airways is imminent. VerdeGo Aero, founded cruise speeds of more by Erik Lindbergh, than 150mph. VerdeGo grandson of legendary is based at Embry-Riddle aviation pioneer Charles Aeronautical University’s Lindbergh. VerdeGo’s MicaPlex incubator in Personal Air Taxi 200 Daytona, Florida.

Sweden starts process to VerdeGo Aero VerdeGo acquire Patriot SAM Airbus DEFENCE SPACEFLIGHT India tests air-launched INFOGRAPHIC: After 37 years and BrahMos missile 13 billion miles, NASA fires Voyager 1

The Indian MoD has IAF Sukhoi Su-30MKI, thrusters successfully launched before it engaged a Engineers at NASA's JPL mission control have managed to command four thrusters on the BrahMos supersonic surface target in the Bay the Voyager 1 space probe to fire after 37 years. The thrusters will be able to correctly cruise missile for the first of Bengal. The ram- align the spacecraft, now in interstellar space for communications with Earth, extending its time from an aircraft. The jet powered Mach 2.8 mission by a further two or three years. trial, on 22 November, saw BrahMos missile can now the joint Indian/Russian be fired from land, sea and missile air-dropped by a air platforms.

ON THE commander of the Thunderbirds aerobatic MOVE display team due to a After 18 months in ‘loss of confidence’ in the job, Airbus Chief his leadership. The unit Technology Officer suffered an ‘avoidable’ Paul Eremenko is to non-fatal crash of a F-16 move to UTC as SVP in June 2017. and Chief Technology Officer. Airbus’ Digital Airbus has named Eric Transformation Officer Schulz, currently at Marc Fontaine takes over Rolls-Royce, as its new acting Chief Technology Executive VP for sales, Officer. marketing and contracts, taking over from John The US Air Force Leahy, who retires after 23 has removed Lt Col years at the OEM. Jason Heard as the NASA/JPL

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hen it comes to looking forward UK Brexit-related concerns are many and varied to the world of commercial and not just restricted to the nagging fear that aerospace in 2018, whether Airbus itself will be placed under more pressure to or not you are excited by the bring UK-based wing manufacturing jobs back to prospects for the year ahead the original three stakeholder countries, France, mayW well depend on which country you happen to Germany and Spain, all of whom are keen to grow find yourself living and working in. their respective industries and would relish taking on If, for instance, you are working in the US, manufacturing of wings. then I suspect that you will find yourself looking Aside this are more immediate concerns in forward to another very interesting year ahead. If relation to future competitiveness due to the sharp you find yourself working in China, I suspect that devaluation of sterling and raised cost of raw you will be excited by the increasing number of materials. The possibility that, although aircraft and development opportunities that the well-invested component parts are exempt from tariffs under WTO ‘state’ aerospace policy has provided you in order to rules, the raw materials needed are not, is another challenge the now well-established Western global growing concern that is made worse by the fall in industry leadership in both commercial and military sterling having raised import costs. jets. There are justified fears that unless agreement The same is probably true in Russia, although is reached between the UK Government and perhaps not quite to the same extent. If you happen Brussels that Britain’s economic isolation from its to be in Brazil, you may well be expecting further European partners could well see huge non-tariff headwinds in a year that can probably best be penalties and border control delays being imposed. termed one of transition, albeit that the new E2 These would significantly add to manufacturing generation of commercial jets points to a very costs, making the UK look even more uncompetitive. interesting and positive long-term future. Movement of free labour is also a very big What if you happen to find yourself in the EU? concern for the UK aerospace industry in a post Will 2018 provide even more opportunities for Brexit world and an even bigger concern surrounds success and might Airbus finally be able to put the continuing UK membership of the European Aviation raft of problems that have come to light in recent Safety Agency (EASA), the organisation which years behind it? The hope will be that it will. certifies aircraft engines and their components. If the UK decided to opt out of EASA or was forced Meanwhile, in the UK out, this could have major repercussions in respect of costs and delay. Then there is the UK, a nation in which the So, uncertainty remains the keyword in respect commercial aerospace industry is one of its most of the UK commercial aerospace industry as it successful, not just in respect of technology, skills, enters 2018 and, for the moment, apart from doing leadership and industry size but also in respect its best to stay competitive and retain the important of exports and benefits to the wider economy research and development initiative elements, the that are estimated to be worth £28bn. With direct industry hands appear tied. employment in the UK aerospace industry estimated as being around 120,000 highly skilled personnel, What next for the aerospace industry? Brexit uncertainty is causing serious angst. No matter who you talk to, there can be little doubt that Airbus is never a company that stands still for confidence in the UK commercial aircraft industry long and occasionally it can even provide a is currently running very low and with the nation set surprise. This it certainly did in October when to leave the EU in just 15 months’ time, justified announcing that it had decided to take a majority concern is growing in relation to the possibility that, 50.1% stake in the troubled Bombardier CSeries after decades of successful leadership, Britain’s aircraft development and build programme. 2018 hugely important aerospace industry risks being left in respect of CSeries will certainly be a very out in the cold. interesting year to observe.

10 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 Can the UK aerospace industry look forward to a bright sunny future or will Brexit uncertaincy lead to stormy times ahead?

Meanwhile, with the Dubai Air Show having increased output of the 737 MAX and also some witnessed a higher level of orders than anticipated of the wider investment projects in the UK coming and, with Boeing leading the way, suffice to say most closer to fruition. industry observers do not anticipate 2018 being Airbus, meanwhile, is likely to continue to a year of great excitement. Airline customers are struggle with a number of historicaly-related in reasonable health, albeit some are suffering the issues, including engine delivery delays from Pratt beginning of a potentially serious shortage of pilots. & Whitney for the A320neo, rising costs on the For aerospace industry manufacturers, commercial, A400M to get well known legacy development military and business jets, 2018 will also be a year issues sorted, together with work to make a success when pressures of competitiveness require ever of the decision to take on a majority share in the increasing efficiency of operations. development of the Bombardier CSeries. For all that and despite problems related to Although he is not intending to step down engine supply on the latest version of its A320neo before his successor has finally been appointed and family, the commercial aerospace industry did presumably, having arrived at the company, we may at least end last year in reasonably good health. assume that 2018 will be the first year that Airbus There were also small signs of improvement in the will not be enjoying the services of its remarkable business jet market and welcome signs of revival in sales chief, John Leahy. Having worked with and space investment. There is nothing to suggest that survived no fewer than five Airbus CEOs since he these improvements will not continue into 2018. joined the company in 1985, it is fair to say that Sadly, despite a handful of interesting moments no one single person has had a greater impact on during the past year, the prospect of a further round Airbus success than John Leahy. We wish him well of defence cuts combined with the outlook for few CONCERN IS in full realisation that his boots will be hard to fill!. meaningful aerospace-related defence orders being GROWING IN Overall, I suspect that commercial aircraft orders confirmed this year means that just as 2017 was, it in 2018 for both Boeing and Airbus will be similar seems that 2018 is unlikely to be a year that the UK RELATION TO to or slightly less than those received in 2017. That defence industry will be looking forward to. THE POSSIBLY said, I am mindful that forecasting aircraft orders THAT, AFTER is a mug's game. 2018 is also a Farnborough Air A year to fear or to look forward to? DECADES OF Show year and, while the organisers will be showing off the new significant investments that have taken So, overall, will 2018 be a year that the aerospace SUCCESSFUL place, in particular the new permanent Hall 1 facility industry be looking forward to or is it more likely LEADERSHIP, with its 12,000m2 of space spread over two floors, I to be seen as a year to fear? The answer is a mix BRITAIN’S note that the organisers anticipate that the number of both. Looking first at the commercial aerospace of trade show exhibitors is not expected to exceed industry in respect of Boeing, suffice to say HUGELY that of the 1,500 that came in 2016. that, while the company enters 2018 with very IMPORTANT Finally, perhaps the most significant series strong order backlogs across most of its aircraft AEROSPACE of events to look forward to in 2018 are the programmes, the exception being the 747-8, the INDUSTRY RISKS celebrations to mark the one hundredth anniversary company has a lot of work to do to get its KC-46 of the Royal Air Force. Built around a legacy of tanker programme back on course. Boeing looks to BEING LEFT investment, RAF 100 will see the vital importance be in rude financial health, so there seems plenty OUT IN THE air power, RAF history and of what the RAF is today to look forward to in 2018. This year will also see COLD and will be tomorrow recognised in equal measure.

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LETTERS AND ONLINE @evacguy What about New Hon Fellow Sourcing engines for the Boom SSJ(2) crew? Yes, there is analysis concerning fatigue on flight crew abilities but what about the cabin crew? Not sure I would want them managing the evacuation of a B787 after a 17-hour flight. Yes, crew rest areas Long-haul human have been available on factor research long-haul flights for years. Have you tried to sleep in @RoyalFreeNHS @MattMcL_FTKE [On @WanderMe Was it not @NZAircraftFan I would one? I would very much like Congratulations to Qantas human factor one of the selling points love to know who is going to see some research to high flying consultant research for non-stop 787 on the design/costs that to build the engines for demonstrate that crew can psychologist, Professor flights to UK-Australia] Lip they would use the existing Boom, maybe a Russian perform their priority safety Robert Bor, who was service. Stop making seats engines? Going for new company, as I am certain duties efficiently after a long- made an Honorary smaller, stop reducing trashes the economics and that no western company haul flight. Fellowship of the Royal pitch, stop reducing recline timeline, I’d think. Forget will be interested. Aeronautical Society last angle. These things will whether it is technically night! make a REAL difference. International Civil possible. It calls into Aviation Day question the very basis of @wcmtuk the company’s original pitch @XFW_Observer The @Valeriya_tanec Happy Congratulations to to airlines and investors. I only thing Boom and @TWMBooth 18 hours International Civil Aviation Churchill Fellow Robert have lots of questions now. Wright are threatening is non-stop... struggling Day! Montréal today for Bor who has been made the purse of their investors. to see how anyone in @AeroSociety Montréal a @AeroSociety Honorary SpaceX innovation is in business class − let Branch lecture and to Fellowship, following in the @thresholdaero Will organisation more than alone economy − will look represent both the YPN footsteps of Sir Winston we ever see the real thing technology. forward to that. and UTAC at the post- Churchill himself! though? Does it even lecture dinner. exist?!

E-Fan X BAe 146 electric flight demonstrator(1) Charity photo exhibition Airbus @wildbluejester And the takes flight

hype goes on… Richard Deakin

@ian_gray Nice piece from @RAeSTimR @AeroSociety on potential to UK #aerospace industry of @Airbus EFanX electric aircraft.

@PauloSergioMDC I wonder how much @swisschoc Love the @JETFXR-nzl The 146 damage is being done to concept. We know it’s the still proves to be useful. GE’s powerful competitive future. Looking forward to An image from the exhibition entitled ‘Tornado RIAT – 2005’. position by their huge be certified on one. @McParlinStephen The problems, planned Richard Deakin, whose aerospace career included five 146/RJ makes a useful reorganisation… years as CE of NATS, is staging an exhibition of his @graysonottaway The testbed, in that the existing photos and artwork in London in January. Sponsored 146 lives on. engines featured a geared by Lockheed Martin, the exhibition is being held at the fan. I’ll be curious to see @oilwalkerjones D Contemporary Gallery, 23 Grafton Street, London @BarryStott This would how the transmission of A detailed analysis W1S 4EY from 12-19 January. Proceeds will go to the be fantastic but aren’t electrical power to the of our hybrid electric Aerobility and RAF Benevolent Fund charities. Richard lots of modern airports motor works out. announcement from last describes how his work ‘aims to capture, the passion built out of the way of week − a good read from and emotion of flight and pays tribute to those pioneers mass populous in case of @RAeSTimR of flight who have made the dream of flight come true incident/crashes? for all of us today’.

12 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 Airbus A400 photo competition winners

At the Paris Air Show in June 2017, Airbus Defence launched a new annual aviation photography contest(3) for amateurs, young photographers and enthusiasts to capture the A400M airlifter in service, at air displays or on operations around the globe. The ‘In Plane Sight’ competition, supported by AEROSPACE, was divided into three categories: Military Photographer Award for military entrants Young Photographer (18-21 year olds) General Public Photographer Award open to all photographers The competition attracted over 960 submissions and the three winning entries (illustrated here) were judged by a panel consisting of Colin Paynter and Ioannis Papachristofilou from Airbus, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier, Tim Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of AEROSPACE and aviation photographer Claire Hartley. The winners will receive a VIP tour of the A400M factory and final assembly in Seville plus an opportunity to get hands-on in the full flight simulator itself at Airbus’ training facilities. In addition, the winning James Roberts/A400M InPlaneSight Competition photograph also appears on the front cover of this issue of AEROSPACE. Winner of the Young Photographer category Images of the winning entries and runners up can be viewed on and Overall Winner − James Roberts, UK https://www.a400m-photocompetition.com/ Marina Munoz Fernandez/A400M InPlaneSight Competition Alvin Russell/A400M InPlaneSight Competition Winner of the Military category − Winner of the General Public category − Marina Muñoz Fernandez, Spain Alvin Russell, UK

Harriers for Turkey? Antonov An-70 Airlander deflation N Korean missiles(4) Virtual windows(5)

@MichaelJPyrce [On @herculean_me It’s sad @K_Kourousis An @JohnChinner Still can’t @designerjet [On news that Turkey may be this bird will die a natural anachronistic concept quite get my head around Emirates ‘virtual windows’] interested in ex USMC death. Ukraine has no troubled with safety issues. ICBMs getting to over Yes, it’s really a great test AV-8Bs] Harriers have hope of going through This company could 1,700 miles altitude, or of passenger response to high needs in terms with the plane alone benefit by a history lesson nearly 7x the height of the windowless planes. Very of pilot training and without Russia. Unless perhaps. ISS. exciting technology. maintenance procedures. some gulf petrodollars The F-35B is much easier and/or Chinese help (in 1. https://www.aerosociety.com/news/how-e-fan-x-will-jump-start-a-new-era-in-hybrid-electric-flight/ to fly. Not sure anyone exchange for tech transfer) 2. https://www.aerosociety.com/news/dubai-air-show-2017-day-two/ 3. https://www.aerosociety.com/news/exclusive-airbus-launches-global-a400m-photo-contest/ would take on that burden pour in, no hope for this 4. https://www.aerosociety.com/news/rocket-nation/ for an ‘interim’ fleet. promising bird. 5. https://www.aerosociety.com/news/dubai-air-show-2017-day-one/ Online Additional features and content are available to view online at https://www.aerosociety.com/news-expertise/aerospace-insight/aerospace-insight-blogs/

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Atlas shoulders

MoD the load

Last year saw the Royal Air Force’s Airbus Defence A400M swoop in to provide hope and much needed humanitarian aid in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean – its first operational tasking. TIM ROBINSON reports from RAF Brize Norton as the Atlas flexes its muscles and takes over more of heavy lifting from the iconic Hercules.

orking side-by-side on the well as HMS Ocean and RFA Mounts Bay, the relief The Royal Air Force hurricane relief was the first effort also included RAF Puma helicopters, C-17s, Lockheed Martin C-130J time I’ve heard a C-130 special a C-130 and two A400Ms to deliver much needed Hercules, below, is being forces support pilot turn around food, water and essential aid to UK Dependencies replaced for many of its duties by the A400M, and say: “It’s actually quite good and other islands in the Caribbean that had been above. atW this, isn’t it?” That was a mark of respect.” These, affected by one of the worst storms in history. the words of Wg Cdr Gareth Burdett, OC XXIV Sqn (who was also in charge of the air mobility wing International rescue deployed for Operation Ruman, the UK’s Caribbean assistance mission), is a tribute to the RAF Though the first Airbus A400M for the RAF was A400M’s operational debut in a major international delivered in November 2014, Operation Ruman was humanitarian mission in September of last year. The the first operational debut for the UK A400M fleet UK humanitarian relief effort, in the wake of the and a significant milestone for a force that is still damage and destruction left by Hurricane Irma as it growing with a mix of 24/70 Sqn aircrew swinging swept through the Caribbean, saw Army, Royal Navy, into action. Royal Marines and RAF personnel scrambled at The RAF now has 18 A400Ms in service,

short notice to deliver urgent aid and assistance. As pooled between the OCU XXIV Sqn (24 Sqn), LXX MoD

14 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 Sqn (70 Sqn) and, 206(R) (responsible for trials and delivery end. Says Horne: “if you could imagine that evaluation testing). Four more aircraft are set to be most of these places have been smashed up by a delivered between now and 2019 to take the whole hurricane and therefore not only were there limited force to 22 aircraft and another ex-C-130 squadron, communications available but there were also 30 Sqn, is set to reform in 2018 as the second limited services available like the ability to refuel front-line A400M unit. TO GET TWO aircraft. If I take the Turks and Caicos Islands as an The OC of the RAF A400M’s front-line AIRCRAFT OUT example, that’s about 1,000 miles from Barbados. operational unit, 70 (LXX) Sqn, Wg Cdr Ed Horne So, to go 1,000 miles there and 1,000 miles back said: “It’s worth stressing that the Atlas force of 70 THE DOOR IN might be beyond the fuel range of other transport Sqn and 24 Sqn, and our engineering colleagues, SUCH A SHORT aircraft. The A400M wouldn’t have any issue in are still in growth and still a relatively immature TIMEFRAME, going there and back without having to refuel.” organisation. It’s not something that we held a FOR OVER Horne also is enthusiastic about the aircraft standby commitment for, or anything like that. So from a pilot’s perspective, especially the HUD, to get two aircraft out the door in such a short 4,000 MILES situational awareness, powerful brakes and crisp, timeframe, for over 4,000 miles away, really playing AWAY, REALLY precise FBW system: ”From an operational point of to the aircraft’s strengths in terms of its reach and PLAYING TO view, from a testing, environmental scenario where its range, was a fantastic achievement.” THE AIRCRAFT’S it’s windy, gusty, you’re trying to accurately land on Echoing this view, was 24Sqn’s OC, Wg Cdr a short strip, the fly-by-wire capability coupled to Burdett: “The A400M was remarkable in what it STRENGTHS IN all that situational awareness really makes it a step could do, It could take three times as much as a TERMS OF ITS above.” C-130 into a tight, small strip without taking any REACH AND ITS The aircraft is also receiving praise from the military risk in its performance. Whereas C-130 was RAF’s loadmaster community – for its next gen taking in five tonnes, the A400 would be taking in RANGE, WAS qualities and design features. Rear ramp steadying 15.” A FANTASTIC struts and the ability of the aircraft to ‘kneel’ and During the airlift, two A400Ms deployed to ACHIEVEMENT reduce the angle of the ramp allowing vehicles and Barbados via a refuelling stop in the Azores (the loads to be more easily loaded. This and an integral C-130 taking a longer route via Iceland, Canada Wg Cdr Horne winch, means that forgetting two pieces of essential and the US) before all three began ‘hub and OC 70 Sqn, RAF equipment for the C-130J (an ‘elephant’s foot’ spoke’ type transport missions to deliver much- support for the ramp and a winch) is now a thing of needed supplies to the stricken islands of the the past. British Virgin Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Sgt Andrea Harrison, a Loadmaster on 70 Sqn Antigua and US Virgin Islands. In around a month at Brize, highlighted the automatic load-locking of operations, the two A400Ms and one C-130J system, which can be used either from a side panel delivered approximately 1,5,00 tonnes of aid, the or the loadmaster, station as a step-up from the vast majority delivered by the Atlas – thanks to ‘charismatic’ C-130J she had previously flown. its increased airlift capacity over the Hercules. The A400M’s wider cargo hold, too, said Sgt Mixed loads were common, said Wg Cdr Horne: Below: Wg Cdr Ed Horne, Harrison, also allowed for easier checking of loads “We had food, water, building materials, shelter OC 70 Sqn. and pallets, with loadmasters kits, DFID aid type-stuff, in among JCBs playing able to walk around the to the volume sizes of the aircraft, as well as its lift sides, rather than capacity, and then 54 passengers as well in the clamber over side seats.” the cargo. Though the A400M is big (37 tonnes total cargo capacity) it is also remarkably ‘light on its feet’ ,thanks to 12 main wheels in two six-tyre pairs. This and its capability to operate into smaller airfields, while still carrying a huge load meant that the Atlas made its mark in Operation Ruman. Notes Wg Cdr Horne: “If I talk about Beef Island Airport in the British Virgin Islands, the runway length, it’s concrete of course but about 4,000ft long, and we were able to transport in the order of 20 tonnes, compared to the C-130’s seven or eight tonnes. We love the C-130 but you can’t help but draw comparisons.” He added: “I would stress there is that we didn’t have to employ any sort of special take-off or landing techniques.” The range of the A400M also proved its worth in Operation Ruman, allowing the aircraft to deliver aid without needing to find somewhere to refuel at the

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Another advance over the C-130, she said, A400M pilots are from the shrinking C-130J force was that weight and balance calculations (for say but there are others from Shadow R1s, as well as additional cargo along a route), can be added on ab initio pilots direct from the King Airs at 45 Sqn. the fly while in flight, an improvement over the While 24Sqn is currently in ‘surge mode’ at a steady C-130J where the computer would only allow the state, the OCU will be training ten A400M crews a loadmaster to make changes while on the ground. year. As well as type conversion, 24Sqn’s role Operational conversion also includes refresher training, with front-line crews returning to the sims four times a year, to Training for the A400M for the RAF is conducted brush up on operating procedures and maintain by 24 (XXIV) Sqn, based at Brize Norton, which is standardisation. This refresher also includes annual the Air Mobility Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) checks and instrument ratings. for A400M, C-17 and C-130. The squadron has ATSL provides four sim flights a day per sim 12 pilot instructors, eight loadmaster instructors to the RAF, each lasting around three hours. The and ten engineer instructors, with the unit to add two simulators, with the latest visuals, can be a further six pilot instructors in the future when at linked to each other, to allow for formation flying, full strength. The squadron’s strength, says Burdett, and instructor stations can also ‘fly’ additional AI is its mix of highly experienced instructors. “The A400Ms, allowing up to four aircraft to be flown calibre of the instructors I have is phenomenal. They simultaneously. However, notes Wg Cdr Burdett, are all experts from the aircraft types they’ve flown despite the ramp-up in crews there is still spare before and we’ve deliberately gone for a blend.” He capacity, and talks are ongoing with other A400M added: “We’re bringing together the blend so we operators about potentially using this facility to train don’t end up in groupthink and just using it in the their pilots. same way that we’ve always used a Herc, because The facility also features classrooms for training that would be a massive waste of this aircraft that engineers with the latest in 3D ‘virtual reality’ which can take three times as much into a small strip.” allows students to open, inspect and crawl all over For the A400M training and conversion, it works a detailed 3D model on a desktop computer, before closely with ATSL (A400M Training Service Ltd) a moving on to line training. At some point, 24 Sqn joint venture between Airbus and Thales. Civilian hope to add VR goggles to the training, to immerse instructors from ATSL (two pilots, three LMs and four students even further. As well as the FFS, computer- engineers) provide initial conversion training, before based training classrooms, the new 24 Sqn training handing over to the RAF instructors for the more facility also includes a Loadmaster Procedural Trainer. operational and tactically focused part of the course. Just outside of the building, 24 Sqn can make use of A new A400M training facility features two a 1:1 scale rear fuselage mock-up, the Cargo Hold full-motion flight simulators (FFS) from Thales Trainer-Enhanced (CHT-E). which theoretically allow zero-flight time qualifications. However, the Whole force at Brize Norton current type conversion course features 33 simulator Like many new aircraft before (and no-doubt flights, followed by four flights in the after) the Airbus Defence A400M has suffered aircraft, with line training after that. All its share of teething troubles – the discovery of told, the OCU is aimed at lasting four engine gearbox issues in 2016 and the crash of months. As might be expected, a a Spanish AF A400M with the loss of six crew in fair few of these new 2015 saw the RAF temporarily ‘pause’ A400M operations in each case while it assessed the risk and instituted fixes.

16 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 MoD However, by working proactively with OEM Airbus, the RAF has managed to mitigate many of the issues that has blighted it. For example, the RAF, said Wg Cdr Horne, working closely with Airbus partners on site, reduced gearbox inspection and replacement process time by half (that involved taking the EPI turboprop off the wing) through the collaborative development of an on-wing process. Said Horne, that “made a huge difference when you’re trying to generate aircraft.” Operation Ruman, too, had seen the aircraft perform well in terms of serviceability. Said Wg Cdr Burdett: “There have been challenges with reliability. In Ruman, we didn’t miss a heartbeat on the A400 for serviceability and its performance was absolutely superb.” One major reason that may account for the difference between the RAF experience with the A400M and other operators is the extremely close relationship at RAF Brize Norton between service Summary personnel, manufacturer and civilians in supporting the A400M in the Single Engineering Organisation In conclusion, the A400M has been a long time (SEO). A new state-of the art 24,000m2 hangar coming, from UK plans to replace the Short Belfast, and MRO facility at Brize Norton, Government- to the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) and twists owned but maintained by Airbus, was opened IN RUMAN, WE and turns of a much-delayed European defence in May 2017 to provide integrated support for DIDN’T MISS A procurement programme – the first developed both line and depth maintenance. This facility under civil certification rules. While other snags features two large deep maintenance bays, HEARTBEAT ON could still emerge, the evidence from the Royal Air underfloor power systems, as well as automated THE A400M FOR Force, one of the most experienced and skilled air parts dispensing and tool-tracking. It also includes SERVICEABILITY arms in the tactical air transport business, is that it is another bay for line maintenance. The new facility, AND ITS proving to be a worthy successor to the much-loved which features 350 RAF, Airbus, FlyBe (which is Hercules. Enthuses Wg Cdr Burdett: “A400 came contracted to provide depth maintenance) and PERFORMANCE into its own as an air mobility asset on Op Ruman.” DE&S civilians working together under one roof, WAS SUPERB However, perhaps more instrumental in its in a three-storey facility with Google-like ‘coffee success so far in RAF service, are in the men spaces’ also has been built with an eye on the Wg Cdr Burdet and women who fly, load, maintain and support it: future. The depth maintenance bays, for example, OC 24 Sqn, RAF (whether in uniform or not) and who are the Atlas’ are big enough not only for the A400M but also for real strength, according to Wg Cdr Horne. “I think the Voyager MRTT and C-17. that’s really the main strength at Brize Norton, is This, another example of ‘Whole Force’ in that when the call comes, the capacity is there but action means that: “Our RAF technicians are crucially, so is the willingness of the people. Our interchangeable with their Airbus colleagues. It’s people dig in and go the extra mile.” something that works very well, because it means we can flex manpower here and there as we would require it.” says Wg Cdr Horne.

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What are the latest trends in the space industry? What can satellites now do which they couldn’t before? Can the UK maintain its international presence post Brexit by becoming a leader in the international space industry? BILL READ FRAeS reports on some of the highlights of the RAeS President’s Conference on the commercialisation of space.

n 21-22 November, the RAeS held a Industrial Strategy at the UK Space Agency, forecast two-day conference at No.4 Hamilton that commercial investment in space industry is Place on the Commercialisation of expected to grow from £1bn a year to £8bn/year by Space. The conference looked at a 2030. Richard Peckham explained how the UK plans wide range of topics, including new to increase its share to 10% (£500m/year) by 2030. Oapplications for satellites and how the UK hopes to However, this ambition could only be achieved through develop and increase its international presence in this a strong partnership between academia, government developing industry sector, including the development and industry. of its own launch systems. Here is some of the highlights. Lack of launchers

The UK and space Currently, the UK has a space industry sector that is strong in some areas and weak in others. The vast Income from the UK space industry in 2014/15 majority of the UK’s income (74%) is derived from was £13.7bn, equivalent to 6.5% of the global space space applications with 15% coming from space economy. However, this not large compared to some operations, 5% from space manufacturing and 3% other nations. “The UK is not a big space nation,” from ancillary services. Unlike many other nations, admitted Richard Peckham, Chairman of UKSpace. the UK does not have a sovereign Earth-observation However, the UK is hoping to increase its capability. international space presence. Robert Waters, Head of One big gap in the UK’s space industry portfolio

18 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 UK Space Agency UK

up to 165kg into Sun-synchronous orbit. Rumours of this development were first heard in July but this was the first official confirmation of the project. According to Chris Lamour, founder and CEO of Orbex, the company has been secretly testing rocket engines for the launcher over the past year and has partnered with a composite centre and 3D printing experts The new rocket will be one of the highest performing smaller launchers and will use a novel, sustainable fuel system to create a low inert mass fraction. By using composite construction, the launcher will have 30% less inert mass and will only require half the number of engines as comparable launcher. The vehicle subsystems are to be developed in- house, including the rocket engines, avionics, GNC, software and structure technologies. The rocket is to be built at a factory in Scotland. He also revealed that it is finalising its first launch contract with an has been the absence of an indigenous launch unspecified Asian nation to carry a 50kg payload. capability. To date, Britain has only put one However, Chris Lamour was cautious about spacecraft into orbit which was the Prospero The UK earns releasing too many details of the new launcher, satellite launched by the Black Arrow rocket including its name, what fuel it will use, where in in 1971. However, this omission may soon be £13.7bn from its Scotland it will launch from (there have been hints rectified. The conference heard from two different space industry. that it will be in Sutherland) and when the first UK-based companies planning to develop launch launch will be (some reports say as soon as next systems – one of which was formally announced year). However, the company did reveal that there at the conference. have been 45 tests of the rocket’s propulsion system and that development work is continuing. Reaction Engines Government support One already much publicised project to create a UK space launch capability comes from Reaction Tim Just, Head of Space, Innovate UK, explained how Engines based at Culham in Oxfordshire which is the UK Government now recognised the importance developing the SABRE (Synergetic Air Breathing of the space sector to the UK economy and had Rocket Engine) which it intends to use to power published three national space technical strategy and a suborbital space vehicle or long-distance roadmap reports in 2011, 2014 and 2017. hypersonic aircraft. The SABRE engine is To demonstrate its commitment to the UK space scheduled to be ready for its first flight in 2023. sector, the British Government has invested £99m Mark Wood, COO and Engineering Director of of Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund money into the Reaction Engines spoke at the conference, saying creation of a National Satellite Testing Facility (NSTF) at that he hoped that costs could fall to £6m per Harwell in Oxfordshire. Due to open in early 2020, the launch. Orbital Access’ proposed NSTF will provide co-located facilities for the assembly, modified carrier aircraft There was also a presentation from Stuart would launch small integration and testing of space payloads and satellites, McInyre, CEO of Orbital Access which is aiming satellties into orbit from as well as facilitating building of larger satellites which to send satellites in orbit from a modified the air. currently have to go abroad to be tested. commercial aircraft. After taking off from a from a conventional runway, the modified Orbital 500 aircraft, could launch payloads of up to 500kg into orbit. In May Orbital announced a partnership with Spaceport Cornwall to operate from Newquay Airport.

Mystery project revealed

The second day of the conference saw an announcement from UK-headquartered company Orbex that it is developing a new orbital micro- launch vehicle capable of delivering a payload of Orbital Access

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STFC space industry sector has the potential to be a strong tool in post-Brexit Britain. “Space can give us the means to project a self-confident and outward-facing global Britain,” he said.

Doves from above

Another topic discussed at the conference was Artist’s impression of new applications for satellites. Jen Marcus, VP the UK’s new National US Government Strategic Partnerships, Planet Satellite Testing Facility due to open in 2020. Labs explained about the work being done by his company to commercialise Earth images. Based in San Francisco, Planet Labs is a commercial company An additional £4m has also gone to a National supplying Earth imaging data. The company currently Space Propulsion Facility (NSPF) to develop and has 190 satellites in orbit comprised from two test space engines at Wescott Venture Park in constellations (RapidEye and SkySat) which were Buckinghamshire. The NSPF will allow companies acquired from other users supplemented by its own and academia to test and develop space propulsion Earth observation cube sat called the Dove. Planet engines, alongside a new test and construction facility designed and manufactures the Dove, and currently for Reaction Engines which is developing the SABRE produces 20 per week . air-breathing rocket engine. Each Dove continuously photographs the Earth’s surface as it completes an orbit around every 90 The B-Word minutes (about 16 complete orbits every 24 hours). The satellites are controlled by Planet’s Mission Although it was not addressed as a specific topic, Control team using custom automation software that one major uncertaincy hanging over the UK space can schedule imaging windows, add new software industry is what happens after the UK leaves the in-orbit and download images to 30 ground stations European Union in 2019. The Director General of throughout the world. ESA, Prof Jan Woerner, explained how the UK will still Using these satellite constellations, Planet is able remain a member of ESA after Brexit. However, there to provide 3m resolution images on the Earth on a were still some unresolved issues, including the UK’s daily and sometimes ever hourly basis. Because the participation in EU space programmes. images are being constantly updated, it is possible to Dr Graham Turnock, CE of the UK Space Agency see both gradual and rapid changes over time and assured delegates that the UK intended to remain Planet Labs are marketing the data to a wide variety of an international partner in future space projects. “We different end users. have no plans to go it alone,” he said. He gave the Jen Marcus gave examples of how images from example of a recent international contract from the the satellites were being used insurance companies French space agency CNES in partnership with Airbus to help detect change, identify fraudulent claims, Defence & Space and Thales Alenia Space for the and verify renewable assets – such as the presence MicroCarb satellite which is to be built in Belfast and of residential outdoor swimming pools. Images can tested in Harwell. MicroCarb is designed to monitor Graham Turnock, CE of also be used to monitor primary forests and detect the UK Space Agency, and creation and absorption of CO2 on the Earth and assured delegates that the presence of illegal mining and logging activities. in the atmosphere to better understand the carbon the UK intended to remain Planners and local authorities can use the images cycle. It can also measure atmospheric methane. an international partner in to monitor urban growth and detect unpermitted The UK space industry currently accounts for future space projects. building. Planet Lab images are also used for climate £5bn worth of exports, 49% of which go to Europe – monitoring, crop yield prediction, disaster response, trade which may be adversely affected if the UK fails defence, energy and finance applications. to secure a good deal for leaving the EU. “The EU is It is also possible to use object recognition our biggest customer, so Brexit is a massive threat,” software from the images to answer particular admitted Richard Peckham, Chairman of UKSpace. questions – such as how many houses are there in Some speakers were more forthright. “Anyone who Pakistan, how many cars are being imported using doesn’t think Brexit is not a calamity doesn’t know photos of cars parked at docks, comparing well pads in what they’re talking about,” declared David Williams, Texas against those in Siberia, or to count the number Chairman Advisory Board, Seraphim Space of ships in the top ten ports over time. Richard Peckham also admitted that Brexit would force the UK to engage more globally – not just in Internet for all Europe, saying: “If the Government is serious about an industrial strategy sector deal for space, it gives us a Greg Wyler, Founder and Executive Chairman of generational opportunity for the UK to assert itself as OneWeb is using satellites for a different application a global space nation. He was also confident that the – to improve global access to the Internet. According

20 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 21 JANUARY 2018 2018 JANUARY Astroscale also announced at the conference Astroscale also announced at the conference Regarding the issue of clearing up space Cleaning up space saw the signing of a memorandum of conference The understanding (MoU) between Astroscale and Surrey test target satellite to ‘pursue Satellites for a ELSA-d joint opportunities in areas of innovative on-orbit and missions designed to safeguard technologies The the orbital environment for future generations’. Service by Astroscale) will Life (End-of- ELSA-d comprise two spacecraft - a Chaser and a Target. will be equipped with optical sensing Chaser The while the instruments and a capture mechanism aim The will act as a test ‘rescue package’. Target of the mission will be for the Chaser spacecraft to and demonstrate the identify and secure Target viability of satellite retrieval. aboardthe imminent launch a Soyuz of launcher its microsatellite, IDEA OSG 1, designed to collect the However, information on small-size debris in LEO. 28 November ended in failure after the on launch orbit, failure to reach stage of the rocket upper Fregat losing a payload of 19 small satellites, including IDEA OSG 1. Space liability issue of who is responsible for spacecraft in The Sa’id Mosteshar, orbit was addressed by Professor and Law. Institute of Space Policy London Director, that with space debris, there was no He explained types of space objects distinction between different of paint to a satellite. from a fleck Some objects orcurrently in object, particularly those with a military difficult,surveillance purpose are classified. It was also toparticularly with smaller pieces of space debris, owneddetermine where they came from and who them. Even debris surveillance data would probably not be enough evidence in a court case. how it was not just Mosteshar explained debris, Prof possible to take a satellite out of orbit, you needed may also be There the permission of the owner. operators, obligations under licence to the satellite’s states. If the as well as the consent of the launching objectdeorbiting mission was unsuccessful and the crashed on Earth – the owners would be liable. space surveillance centre. Opening in Spain in 2016, centre. Opening space surveillance DeSS view of wide and narrow uses a combination and catalogue observe, track telescopes to tracking centre close to Earth. The space debris and asteroids night and, so images each collects up to 50,000 objects. As well as giving has identified 20,000 far, asteroid collisions withadvance warning of potential the Earth, the DeSS national and centre can alert on potential collisionsinternational satellite operators bodiesof space debris or other their satellite with avoidance can execute systems so that the operators manoeuvres.

Planet Lab Planet Lab image of Fiery Cross Reef, Spratly Islands, South China Sea, on 4 January 2016. f i @aerosociety Find us on LinkedIn Find us on Facebook.com www.aerosociety.com As more and more satellites and nano satellite OneWeb has set itself the ambitious goal of has set itself the ambitious OneWeb tenlaunch plans to In early 2018 OneWeb Detecting debris Dr Miguel Belló, CEO of Deimos, told delegates about the work of the Deimos Sky Survey (DeSS) Space debris also considered the problem of space conference The Head of ESA debris. According to Dr Holger Krag, Space Debris Office, there are now over 20,000 man- 1,300 are satellites made objects in space, of which who, sinceand the rest is space debris. He explained the beginning of the space race, there have been over 250 space break-ups as a result of spacecraft dipping missile tests and into atmosphere, fuel explosions, some pieces of space debris were collisions. While were too small to detect. However, others trackable, even a 1cm object travelling at 10km/sec had the equivalent kinetic energy of a crashing car or a hand grenade. constellations are put into orbit the greater the risk of a collision. Most satellites are in an 800km altitude. risk of a “The Equivalent to a 200 years orbital lifetime. collisions is going to increase from 1 every 5 years to 1 every year by 2117,” said Krag. to OneWeb, over 50% of the world is currently remain over 50% of the world to OneWeb, includes This without reliable high-speed connectivity. wellregions of rural America, Europe and Asia, as or community as emerging markets, where schools centres are without access. by 2022 and of connecting every unconnected school connecting everyone in the world by 2027. will not be demo satellitesproduction satellites. “These Greg Wyler. that go ‘bing’ but the real thing,” explained will be followed six months later by a full launch This acampaign to create what will eventually become constellation of 900 satellites to enable affordable every satellites will be launching Internet access. “We “We’re up in the atmosphere. 21 days,” said Wyler. will burn up materials which using more expensive said Wyler. more easily,” AIR TRANSPORT War zone risks Civil air threats Following the shootdown of MH17, there is a need for up- to-date and accurate risk assessment of airspace for civil operators. ANDREW NICHOLSON, CEO at UK company Osprey Flight Solutions, gives an overview of recent threats.

n response to the July 2014 shoot-down of Middle East flight MH17 over the Ukraine, there has been an increased emphasis on threats to civil Syria aviation flight operations over defined risk The burgeoning civil war coupled with the areas. Multiple national and international civil deployment of advanced air defence weapons Iaviation governing bodies and civilian flight operators across the country has created a complex overflight have begun reevaluating their current overflight risk environment at all altitudes within Syrian policies. In addition, civil aviation entities are required airspace. Multiple state and non-state actors have to conduct risk assessments of their flight routes a capability to target aviation assets in-flight over on a continuous basis for compliance, actuarial and Syria. Syrian rebel groups, the Syrian military and insurance purposes. the extremist Islamic State (IS) group are the actors THE SYRIAN The most pertinent risk areas are those where which comprise the main threat to civil aviation there is a significant kinetic threat to civil aviation flight operations over the country at altitudes above MILITARY HAS flight operations above FL260, as this is where FL260. A VARIETY OF civilian aircraft set their cruising altitudes. Our Syrian rebel forces have shown a capability CONVENTIONAL analysis has identified nine separate risk areas and intent to target aircraft operating at altitudes SAM SYSTEMS around the globe where civil aviation flight operations above FL450. The Syrian rebel group, Jayish al- face a persistent kinetic threat at altitudes above Islam, is assessed to be in possession of multiple CAPABLE OF FL260 from air, air defence and unsafe missile Russian-made radar-guided 9K33 Osa (SA-8 ENGAGING activity conducted by a range of state and non-state GECKO) conventional surface-to-air missile (SAM) AIRCRAFT IN- actors. This article provides a summary of these systems. The SA-8 has the capability to engage risk areas, including incident-specific analysis by aircraft at altitudes near FL450 and at ranges out FLIGHT AT our aviation security team of activity which poses a to approximately 9 miles (15km). During June-July ALTITUDES WELL significant kinetic threat to civil aviation. 2016, Jayish al-Islam reportedly used its SA-8 OVER FL260 Osprey FS

22 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 systems to shoot-down at least three Syrian military air assets. The Syrian military has a variety of conventional SAM systems capable of engaging aircraft in-flight at altitudes well over FL260. Most recently, the Syrian military engaged Israeli military aircraft in- flight over the Golan Heights with S-200 Vega (SA-5 GAMMON) conventional SAM systems on 16 March 2017. The SA-5 has the capability to engage aircraft at altitudes over FL900 and at ranges out to 190 miles (300km). In the most concerning incident to date, a civilian passenger plane conducting a charter flight from the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh to the Russian city of Kazan was unsuccessfully engaged over Syria by a conventional SAM system fired by unknown actors on 29 April 2013. The extremist IS group is also assessed to be in possession of conventional SAM system components acquired via usurping equipment from Syrian military installations. In a recent incident, IS militants reportedly took control of a Syrian military conventional SAM site in Homs Governorate in mid- December 2016. However, a US military airstrike

against IS group targets on 16 December 2016 may ROSOBORONEXPORT have destroyed the site. In June 2016, reports emerged that the IS Buk-M2E SAM system – to approximately 100 miles (160km). Most recently, group acquired Russian-made radar-guided 2K12 an older varinat of which Saudi-led coalition forces in Marib Governorate used KUB (SA-6 GAINFUL) conventional SAM system was responsible for a Patriot conventional SAM system to shoot down components in Daraa Governorate. The SA-6 is downing MH17. two SSMs fired by Houthi rebels on 19 April 2017. capable of engaging targets at altitudes of over FL450 and at ranges out to approximately 13 miles Saudi Arabia (24km). Reports dating back to 2014 indicate the IS group acquired SA-6 components located Spillover from the conflict in Yemen has led the in Dayr az Zawr Governorate. However, Russian Saudi Arabian government to enact airspace military airstrikes reportedly targeted IS group SA-6 restrictions over the south-west areas of the country. components within Dayr az Zawr Governorate in late- The Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation January 2016. Aids (SCATANA) zone of South-West Saudi Arabia is an emerging overflight risk area. This is due to Yemen the presence of Saudi Arabian military forces which have shown a capability and intent to use Patriot The conflict zone stemming from the war between conventional SAM systems to target and shoot down Houthi rebel forces and the Saudi-led coalition SSMs fired into the country from Yemen by Houthi coupled with the deployment of advanced air defence rebel forces. Saudi Arabian military forces have shot weapons by both sides has created a complex down at least nine SSMs fired into the SCATANA overflight risk environment over Yemen. Both area of the country since the start of 2017 alone. Houthi rebels and Saudi-led coalition forces have conventional SAM systems capable of engaging Europe aircraft operating at altitudes over FL800 deployed within the country. In late-January 2016, Houthi rebels Nagorno-Karabakh published a video of the refurbishment and live firing of a Russian-made S-75 Dvina (SA-2 GUIDELINE) Since 1994, escalations in the Armenian and Azeri conventional SAM system. The SA-2 has the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region capability to engage aircraft at altitudes over FL800 have led to the deployment and use of advanced air and at ranges out to approximately 28 miles (45km). defence weapons, making the territory a persistent Saudi-led coalition forces have deployed overflight risk area. Both Armenian-backed forces MIM-104 Patriot conventional SAM systems to and the Azeri military have conventional SAM Marib and Aden Governorates to shoot down systems capable of engaging aircraft operating at surface-to-surface missiles (SSMs) fired by Houthi altitudes over FL900 deployed to the Nagorno- rebel forces. The Patriot has the capability to engage Karabakh area of hostilities. In late-April 2017, the aircraft at altitudes above FL800 and at ranges out Azeri military claimed Armenian-backed forces in

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Nagorno-Karabakh fired a SA-8 that failed to down Africa any of its aircraft. On 15 May, the Azeri military claimed to have destroyed an Armenian-backed South Sudan forces SA-8 conventional SAM system in Nagorno- Karabakh. Surface-to-air fire incidents are a regular The conflict zone environment stemming from occurrence in the Nagorno-Karabakh area with at the civil war in South Sudan coupled with the least 12 drones shot down since May 2016 during deployment of advanced air defence weapons hostilities between Armenian-backed forces and the by government military forces has created a Azeri military. complex overflight risk area in the airspace over the country. On 11 December 2015, the Eastern Ukraine South Sudanese government issued a statement announcing its forces would shoot-down any The simmering war in Eastern Ukraine remains aircraft operating over the country without ongoing in the years since the downing of MH17, permission, citing the increase of unauthorised which exemplifies the persistent overflight risk area incursions into its airspace. The South Sudanese emanating from the conflict. Both Pro-Russia militia military has conventional SAM systems capable forces and the Ukrainian military have conventional of engaging aircraft operating at altitudes up to SAM systems capable of engaging aircraft operating approximately FL800. On 24 December 2015, at altitudes over FL450 deployed to the provinces the US government reported the deployment of of Donetsk and Luhansk. In early-June 2016, Russian-made radar-guided S-125 Pechora (SA-3 Pro-Russia militia forces are assessed to have shot GOA) conventional SAM system to the environs of down an Organisation for Security and Cooperation the capital city of Juba by South Sudanese military in Europe (OSCE) drone via a SA-8 over Donetsk forces. The SA-3 has the capability to engage Province. In a more recent incident, Pro-Russia aircraft at altitudes over FL800 and at ranges out militia forces are suspected to have conducted a to approximately 22 miles (35 km). SAM launch in Luhansk Province on 7 April 2017, according to the OSCE. On 28 April 2017, Libya Ukrainian military forces claimed to have downed Dutch and Australian a Russian-made Orlan-10 drone over Donetsk Since 2011, civil aviation entities globally police at the MH17 crash Province that was reportedly operated by Pro-Russia have reevaluated overflight of Libya due to the site on 3 August 2014. militia forces. enduring civil war and subsequent conflict zone Dutch Safety Board

24 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 environment. Both the Libyan National Army Osprey say its airspace risk Osprey FS (LNA) and Misratan forces have conventional SAM alert database,culled from system components; which when refurbished, are 200,000 sources in 60 language integrates directly capable of engaging aircraft operating at altitudes with a growing number of over FL800. In January 2017, the LNA reportedly flight planning software. deployed Russian-made infrared-guided 9K31 Strela-1 (SA-9 GASKIN) conventional SAM systems to Ras Lanuf and Zintan. The SA-9 has the capability to engage aircraft at altitudes up to approximately FL150 and at ranges out to 2.6 miles (4.2km). In late-December 2016, Misratan forces displayed components of a SA-3 system at a parade celebrating the liberation of Sirte from extremist IS group militants. On a more concerning note, Misratan forces published a video of the refurbishment and live firing of a Conclusion SA-6 conventional SAM system in late-August 2015. Risk-based decision-making is vital to ensuring the safety and security of flights over or near conflict Americas zones and within environments where civil aviation faces significant operational constraints. Along Venezuela with the nine risk areas outlined above, our analysis has identified 34 additional risk areas where the The Western States of the country constitute an kinetic threat to flight operations is concentrated emerging overflight risk area due to the presence below FL260 or where civil aviation activities face of Venezuelan military forces which have shown significant operational constraints. For example, a capability and intent to use conventional while the conflict zone environments in Iraq, SAM systems and fighter jets to target in-flight Afghanistan and Somalia create complex issues civilian aircraft suspected of involvement in within the airspace over each country, the kinetic narcotics trafficking. Since 2013, Venezuelan threat to civil aviation is primarily present at altitudes military fighter jets have shot down at least 20 below FL260. In the context of aviation security, such aircraft in total over the states of Apure, there remains a need to perform intelligence Tachira, Merida, Barinas, Zulia and Amazonas. analysis of the advanced weaponry capabilities Most recently a Venezuelan military fighter of state and non-state actors globally to derive a jet shot down a civilian aircraft suspected of realistic picture of the current threat environment involvement in narcotics trafficking near Lake throughout the world. Maracaibo in Zulia State on 22 April 2017. In addition, the Venezuelan military destroyed civilian Osprey Flight Solutions aircraft suspected of being involved in narcotics trafficking while they were on the ground at VENEZUELAN Osprey Flight Solutions has developed a proprietary airstrips in Zulia State on 7 April 2017 and 20 MILITARY airspace risk assessment methodology that February 2017. FORCES ... evaluates a combination of 20 aviation security, operational and safety criteria via qualitative and Asia HAVE SHOWN A quantitative measures. The Osprey Flight Solutions CAPABILITY AND proprietary airspace risk assessment methodology North Korea INTENT TO USE takes into account a range of technical criteria to CONVENTIONAL holistically analyse threats to aviation at specific North Korean airspace is a persistent overflight altitude intervals. The airspace risk assessment risk area for flights at all altitudes due to its SAM SYSTEMS methodology coupled with Osprey Flight Risk history of unannounced tests of SSM systems AND FIGHTER Management software provides consistent and without providing proper prior notification to civil JETS TO TARGET unbiased analysis of all airspace globally with the aviation entities. North Korea has conducted ten primary output being the identification of specific unannounced SSM launches during 2017 with the IN-FLIGHT areas where a defined kinetic risk to civil aviation most recent launch attempt occurring on 28 Nov CIVILIAN is present. The Osprey Flight Risk Management 2017. In the most concerning incident, the South AIRCRAFT software and proprietary airspace risk assessment Korean government reported that a commercial SUSPECTED OF methodology coupled with the expertise of airliner carrying over 200 civilian passengers our aviation security team provide civilian flight narrowly missed being hit by a North Korean SSM INVOLVEMENT operators accurate, timely and consistent analysis after it flew into the trajectory of the missile over IN NARCOTICS to meet the challenges of a dynamic global airspace the Sea of Japan on 6 March 2014. TRAFFICKING environment.

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Jet Aviation ast year’s Dubai Air Show, held at the Emirates to pioneer 'virtual windows' opens new superhub of the Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) was in many ways another Emirates’ President Sir Tim Clark unveiled the terminal classic exhibition from a country that carrier’s most luxurious first class cabins yet on its Celebrating its 50th seems to have boundless ambition Boeing 777-300ER. The new first class reduces anniversary this year is General Land energy. Predictions of a quiet show were the seat count from eight to six but the suites Dynamics-owned veteran shattered by some record-breaking commercial now feature fully-enclosed cabins in 1-1-1 layout. business aviation services commitments, strong military interest and new In a first for the industry, Clark revealed that the provider Jet Aviation, which aircraft making their first appearance at an centre cabin features ‘virtual windows’ with HD opened a new shared VIP international exhibition. Trade visitors were up 20% video piped in via fibre-optics to give the passenger bizjet terminal at Dubai South compared to the 2015 show, according to the the experience of a window seat. The First Class (DWC) on 13 November. Jet organisers with some $113.8bn worth of orders suite, provided by B/E Aerospace and developed Aviation will retain its existing announced over the five days. Star attractions in partnership with Mercedes-Benz, also features FBO and MRO facility at Dubai in the flying display were J-10s from China's 1st Top Gear celebrity Jeremy Clarkson in a video International, which currently August display team, the Russian Sukhoi Su-35 promotion. Business class and economy have handles 200 movements a and Su30s from the Russian Knights team, USAF also received a makeover and the 300ER First month but, says Hardy Butschi, Lockheed Martin F-22 and the Beriev Be-200ES Class cabin will also act as a pilot product for the VP and GM of Jet Aviation's waterbomber. Let's take a look at some more of the upcoming 777X. Clark says that Emirates also Dubai MRO/FBO, he expects highlights. intends to roll-out the First Class suite in its A380s this to spilt '50/50' in the but that it is currently a ‘work in progress’. future as customers migrate to the new DWC terminal.. UK company debuts armed multicopter

Making its Dubai debut was a new British company, Steel Rock, which had on display a family of multicopter UAVs one of which, the Velvet Wasp, was armed with a low-collateral Textron Fury mini-missile. Another Expectations were variant uses a 40mm launcher confounded in to render IEDs inoperable from a safe distance. more ways than one with record airliner commitments and new aircraft debuts. TIM ROBINSON and BILL READ report on the 2017 Dubai Air Show held on 12-16 November.

26 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 Boeing

Boeing wins Emirates deal In a first day plot twist DAS17 IN for 40 Dreamliners worthy of the wrong Hollywood awards winner BRIEF being announced, media primed for a rumoured big As part of an ongoing purchase announcement process of enhancing from Emirates for 30-40 its customer support A380s from Airbus were offerings, engine maker caught wrong-footed Rolls-Royce opened a when a Boeing 787 new Customer Service model was brought in Centre (CSC) in Abu at the press conference for a surprise big order all right but not from Toulouse. Emirates, which, to date Dhabi. The new CSC has stuck to a two type fleet (A380 and 777) will now add a third with a commitment to 40 Boeing 787- in Abu Dhabi will help 10 Dreamliners – a deal worth $15.1bn at list prices. Deliveries of the new Boeing 787-10s will begin support Rolls' fast- from 2022. Interestingly, the news release notes that the deal supports: “75,000 direct and indirect US growing customer base jobs”, underlining Emirates’ value to the US aerospace supply chain at a time when the airline is still in the in the Middle East. crosshairs of American carrier over the Open Skies deal. It already supports 469 aircraft with 34 operators in the region Finally, the company’s Eagle Owl UAV is a ISR luxury bizjet, aimed at heads of state, VVIPs and and the installed engine platform, providing 2hrs in overwatch. Its UAVs can celebrities, is now available to charter via UAE’s count is set to jump also perform resupply, delivery and humanitarian UAS International Trip Support, which already from 3,700 in 2016 missions and Steel Rock had been one of the caters to the high-end of charter market with BBJs to 7,850 in 2026, with winners of DSTL’s ‘Last mile challenge’ for and Gulfstreams. UAS CEO and co-founder Omar the Middle East one automated logistics delivery. Hosari says the 787 costs around $60-70,000 a of the fastest-growing As well as UAVs, Steel Rock is also leading hour to fly – with the intended audience heads of markets. the way in next-generation C-UAS anti-drone tech. state, ministers and their entourages. The VIP 787, Its Nightfighter drone scrambler is lightweight, only delivered in 2016, has room for 40 passengers, portable (a ‘carbine’-like short version is aimed at rest areas for crew and giant lounge as well as a special forces) and is extremely precise in that its master bedroom and bathroom. Despite the hefty directional antennas only disable the UAV that it is price tag for charter, the 787 VVIP proved a huge pointed at and not other electronic equipment. The hit at the show, says Hosari: “Everyone is wowed. Nightfighter can disable the UAV, bring it down to They’ve never seen something this spacious.” earth safely, or even hijack it and send it back to its owner. China's growing strength in UAV exports made headlines at the Paris Air Show UAE to launch astronaut corps in the summer when it displayed a full-scale mockup (and weapon options) of its Reaper-alike Wing Loong II UAV. At Dubai, AVIC went one further with a Having (almost) conquered the global aviation static display of full scale mock-ups of the Wing Loong, Wing Loong II and a world via Emirates, Etihad and Dubai airports, new jet-powered armed UAV called the Cloud Shadow, as well as a ground- the UAE is now setting its sights on space and is control station (GCS) on its stand. The Cloud Shadow UCAV, which resembles set to announce the creation of its own national the General Atomics Predator C, comes in three variants – a image/EO/ astronaut corps, according to Adman Mohammed IR reconnaissance version, an armed reconnaissance-strike version and a Al Rais, Manager at the Mohammed bin Rashid electronic reconnaissance (SIGINT/ELINT) variant. Powered by a WP-11C Space Centre. The UAE will be looking for around engine, it has a range of 400km and can fly at 620km/hr. 4-8 Emiratis, men or women, with ‘The Right Stuff’ to fly on missions to the ISS. He said that no decision had been made yet on whether these UAE China reveals jet UCAV astronauts would fly on US spacecraft (such as the Boeing CST-100 or SpaceX Dragon) or whether they might be ferried to the ISS onboard a Russian Soyuz. However, he said that a key aim was that any national astronaut project would be ‘sustainable’ and not just a ‘one-off’.

VIP 787 for Middle East high-flyers

Turning heads on static was a Boeing 787 VVIP Dreamliner owned by Deer Jet. This ultra

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Shell Aviation ‘Trillion dollar’ salesman leaves Airbus a announced the signing 430-aircraft retirement present of a fuelling concession agreement to operate new into-plane and fuel farm facilities as the sole jet fuel supplier at

Salalah International Dubai Air Show Airport in Oman. Shell Aviation also supplies jet fuel to Muscat Airport in Oman. Having started the week on the back foot, Wednesday saw Airbus return to form, with its master salesman John Leahy delivering the wow factor that he is known for, with an record-breaking $49.5bn deal for a staggering 430 A320 family aircraft for US airline investment fund Indigo Partners. (No relation to Indian low-cost airline IndiGo, which coincidentally held the previous Airbus record for largest ever single order (250) in terms of numbers). The deal, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indigo Partners is for Space on the 273 A320neos and 157 A321neos. Valued at $49.5bn, the order will be divided up among Indigo Partners’ agenda four portfolio low-cost airlines – Frontier Airlines in the US (100 A320neos, 34 A321neos), JetSMART Over at the Space Pavilion in Chile (56 A320neos, 14 A321neos), Volaris in Mexico (46 A320neos, 34 A321neos) and Wizz Air in there was much discussion Hungary (72 A320neos, 74 A321neos). Newest of these is three-month old JetSMART which is looking on future space commercial to emulate the ultra-low cost model in South America. First deliveries for these airlines from this bulk order opportunities, as well as will begin in 2021. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Indigo Partners is a private equity fund focused on worldwide regulation and legal challenges investments in air transportation, and its founder Bill Franke has pioneered the stripped-to-the-bone ultra- for commercial spaceflight and low-cost model. Airlines operated by Indigo Partners have had previous orders for 427 A320 family aircraft, space tourism. Star speaker making Indigo one of the largest customers by order number in the world for the Airbus single-aisle aircraft on the third day had to be family. The deal crowns a legendary career by outgoing Airbus Chief Operating Officer – Customers, John Apollo 15 astronaut Col Al Leahy, who retires this year after 23 years at the airframer. Worden, who was at the show in the US Pavilion and also Boeing stuns with record-breaking visited schools in the UAE to 225-aircraft flydubai order modernisation and support deal announced at inspire young people about the show was to Iomax for its Air Tractor AT-802i space and STEM subjects. While aviation media were still digesting the armed cropdusters flown by the UAE. Finishing off Worden had high praise for enormity of the Airbus deal (above), Boeing had a week of defence announcements from the UAE the UAE's ambitious space a surprise up its sleeve too, with a 225 737 MAX MoD, was an order for five Airbus C295MW (military plan which includes a city on order from the UAE's low-cost carrier, flydubai. winglet) medium transport aircraft. The aircraft will Mars in 100 years – saying it This, which consists of a commitment for 175 and serve with the UAE Air Force, replacing CN235s is “pretty damn visionary” and purchase rights for 50, is the biggest ever single- currently in operation. Deliveries will begin in Q4 that is ‘reminiscent’ of the JFK aisle order for a Middle East carrier. More than 50 2018. era in the US which led him of these 737 MAXs will be of the new 10 variant, to fly to the Moon in 1971. which Boeing launched with a fanfare at Paris Wanted: 70 new type-rated pilots a However, he noted that a earlier this year – the rest will be split between MAX day crewed mission to Mars would 8 and 9 variants. The follow-on MAX commitment be a international endeavour, from flydubai, which now has three MAX 8s in Unveiling its first ever Airline Pilot Demand Outlook, saying: “Human spaceflight is service from an order placed at the 2013 Dubai Air CAE predicted that the global civil air transport a human species programme, Show, takes the total MAX backlog at Boeing to fleet will need some 255,000 new pilots in the next not a US national programme over 4,000 aircraft. ten years. The report also found that there was a – and the UAE is helping to requirement to develop 180,000 first officers into drive this”. UAE military signs up for upgrades captains – a higher number than any other decade In short, said Nick Leontidis, CAE Group President, While rumours swirled around UAEAF interest Civil Aviation Training Solution: “The airline industry in F-35 and Su-35 fighters, during the week the will need 70 new type-rated pilots per day for the country announced some notable upgrade deals next ten years to meet global demand.” Meanwhile, for existing platforms, along with training, support an airliner market forecast from Airbus also echoed and smart munitions. The UAE MoD said that the this outlook. It predicts that some 35,000 aircraft Air Forces’ Mirage 2000-9s would be upgraded valued at $5.3 trillion will be required in the next 20 by Dassault and Thales. It also placed a $1.6bn years. For those thinking of entering the aerospace contract with Lockheed Martin to upgrade and industry, airlines will also need 530,000 pilots and support its 80 F-16E Block 60 fighters. Another 550,000 technicians too. Dubai Air Show

28 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 Falcon adds more AW169s MC-21-400 passenger jet, with Rostec raising the possibility of a UAE production line. A working Signing an order from lessor Milestone Aviation group is now being created to study it further, Group for an additional three Leonardo AW169s according to Rostec’s CEO, Sergei Chemezov. was Abu Dhabi-based Falcon Aviation, which provides a range of fixed and rotary-wing services Saudi Arabian-developed UAV to including VIP charter and offshore support. The

double endurance Dubai Air Show signing brings the Falcon AW169 fleet up to five helicopters and the company also operates two Making its debut at an international airshow was AW189s and five AW109s. The new AW169s, the Saker 1 UAV from Saudi Arabia's research lab which will be in multi-mission configuration, will be at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. Boom to delivered in the first quarter of 2018. First flown in 2013, the 17m wingspan has a 250kg choose engine payload and uses a Rotax 914 engine. It can be in 2018 AAR to help support UAE special flown by either line of sight or BLOS with satellite Giving a presentation of ops wing links. KACST says an upgraded version, the Saker progress towards its goal 1B is now in development, which will more that of developing a 55-seat US MRO services and support giant AAR is to help double the current endurance of 20 hours to 48 supersonic airliner, was support the UAE's Joint Aviation Command, which hours, or allow the UAV to carry two small weapons. Boom Supersonic’s CEO and flies 12 types, including Chinooks, Apaches and Founder, Blake Scholl. The Black Hawks, as well as armed AT-802U light attack Lufthansa checks in with Etihad company is set to fly its two- turboprops, with a MoU with Global Aerospace seat XB-1 demonstrator by Logistics (GAL), a subsidiary of Emirates Defence Another MRO milestone ahead of the show has the end of 2018, with Mach1+ Industries Company (EDIC) to develop enhanced seen work start on the first third party Airbus testing to use Edwards AFB support services, including performance-based A380 C-Check at Airbus' and Etihad Airways supersonic corridor – a nod to logistics. Engineering’s joint MRO partnership in Abu Dhabi. the original X-Planes. He told An A380 from Lufthansa is the first customer media that Boom is planning to Azerbaijan orders extra Dreamliners for this six-year overhaul and is one of the first downselect an engine in 2018, examples of Airbus’ recently unveiled MRO Alliance with the choice between a The first day also saw an $1.9bn order from where third-party providers can offer support and commercial turbofan derivative Azerbaijan Airlines for five Boeing 787-8s. The overhauls while being backed by the OEM itself. or a “clean-sheet powerplant”. airline, which already operates two 787s, also has Service entry is planned for the a commitment for the later purchase of two large Air Arabia lease deal mid-2020s. freighters which could be either 747Fs or 777Fs. Middle East low-cost carrier Air Arabia signed a MC-21 production line in the UAE? lease agreement for six Airbus long range A321neo LRs with the Los Angeles-based aircraft lessor Air One of the aircraft In more surprise news, Russia's state Rostec Lease Corporation. The 215-seat CFM-powered unveiled at this year’s announced that it had begun preliminary aircraft are to join Air Arabia’s existing fleet of 50 show was the PAL discussions with the UAE on the joint production of A320 aircraft from 2019 and will enable the airline Aerospace Force a civil aircraft. The aircraft may be based on UAC's to fly on longer routes. Multiplier aircraft aimed providing on-demand ISR by the hour service. Japan’s C-2 debuts at Dubai Designed for long endurance maritime Making its international air show debut at Dubai was the Kawasaki C-2 airlifter, four of which are now and ground surveillance in service with the Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF). Sized between a C-130 and a C-17 and missions, the Force powered by two GE CF6 engines, Japan is now aiming this medium transport at the international market. Multiplier, which is The JASDF has 11 based on Bombardier C-2s on order and has Dash 8 Q300, can completed operational fly for over ten hours evaluation, including and can be used as cargo and paratroop a multi-role platform trials, with the aircraft for such missions as in service with Dai 403 maritime SAR, life raft Hiko-tai at Miho. The C-2 deployment, immigration has a maximum payload control, surveillance of 36tonnes with a of sporting events, 2,430nm range or a ferry monitoring forest fires range of 5,300nm. and border surveillance.

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Jetex opens new FBO 1000 – given that the launch customer is Qatar Airways. Meanwhile a briefing over at Eurofighter Business aviation services company Jetex Flight saw the organisers steer the Q&A away from active Support has been appointed as the first operator sales campaigns – again with an eye on a recent and manager of fixed base operations (FBO) in Qatar announcement that it intended to purchase Oman. The ten-year agreement with the Oman Typhoons. Airports Management Company will see Jetex Airbus/Bombardier - another quiet zone was the Orbis’ MD-10 is develop new FBOs at Muscat and Salalah airports. CSeries announcement – and its potential to shake a welcome sight Jetex also formally opened its second FBO up the industry. While one major reason was that at Dubai South near Al Maktoum Airport and this deal is yet to be confirmed, another might be One aircraft with announced plans to build an aircraft hangar on the the intense internal high-level battles reportedly a unique mission site by 2019. going on at Airbus. Those expecting joint press of helping to treat announcements, or initial thoughts on product blindness and eyesight Missing in action? commonality were to be disappointed. Even social disorders worldwide media, where normally serious corporations can was at Dubai this year While those covering the airshow were bombarded add a bit of fun, there was no recognition that the – Orbis International’s by a barrage of announcements, interviews, Airbus family was getting a new member. In this Flying Eye Hospital. briefings, press releases and breaking news alerts, wedding, both groom and bride seemed to be Based on a converted there were, oddly, three areas where there was an terrified of being seen in public together ahead of FedEx MD-10, the uncanny silence. the ceremony. heavily modified aircraft Qatar - the ongoing diplomatic crisis between the Aerial taxis – with seemingly a flying car concept was delivered in 2016. UAE, Saudi Arabia and Middle Eastern nations and being released ever week and a real one, mock-ups Orbis' MD-10, which Qatar meant that the air show was missing its usual and models on display earlier in the year at the Paris flies with a regular crew impressive Qatar Airways static display – along with Air Show, it was thus curious that at an air show of 22, operates around a chalet and other presence. However, the delicate held in a city which is leading the way in trialling this the world to act as a situation also had other knock-on effects. Airbus, transport, they were nowhere to be seen – not even mobile specialist eye for example, choose not to send its Airbus A350- on stands. A puzzling one for flying car fans. teaching hospital – training local doctors, nurses and technicians in the developing world, There was celebration over at Bombardier as its new-found CSeries momentum, following the announcement the latest techniques of a partnership with Airbus, led to EgyptAir signing a LoI for up to 24 CS300s, the larger model for its and procedures to regional carrier, EgyptAir Express. The deal splits into 12 firm and 12 options. The order is worth $1.1bn at combat avoidable list prices, with it rising to $2.2bn if all options are taken. This is the second CSeries deal that Bombardier has blindness and restore won after Airbus announced that it would take control of the programme, the other being a deal for up to 61 peoples sight. In the aircraft from an unnamed European airline. As well as the benefits to his carrier, including excellent range and period 2012-2016, exceptional economics, Safwat Musallam, Chairman and CEO of EgyptAir Holding Company, noted that the Orbis trained 10,385 sale would also open a big door for Bombardier in the Middle East for the aircraft. doctors worldwide and 130,362 nurses and CSeries gains fresh momentum medical staff, working closely with local with EgyptAir order hospitals where the need is greatest. Supported by FedEx and UTC Aerospace among others, this aircraft is a one-of-a- kind humanitarian asset that delivers the most valuable aid of all – knowledge. Bombardier Aerospace

30 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 The UK’s QinetiQ and Middle East General Enterprises (MGE) signed an agreement to establish a JV partnership to Local hero manufacture aerial and maritime training aims at light attack targets in the UAE. The JV will invest in a local facility to build Making its international air show debut at Dubai was the UAE's Calidus B-250 tandem-seat light attack/ these training targets, COIN turboprop. Developed with help from Brazil’s Novaer, the B-250 features a Rockwell Collins Pro which include the Fusion glass cockpit – the first time this flightdeck has been used in an attack aircraft. Built out of carbon- Banshee aerial target fibre, the B-250 is powered by a P&WC PT6A-68 turboprop and has eight hardpoints for weapons. and Hammerhead fast attack naval target. Summary and analysis air travel which, despite wars, terrorism, pandemics, Establishing a JV in and economic downturns, always seem to bounce the UAE presents an As in previous air shows, despite the mind-boggling back as more people around the world are able opportunity to export figures and the last-minute theatrics, it is wise to to fly – especially with the new breed of low-cost targets and training retain a certain amount of cool assessment when carriers that have revolutionised commercial air services within the dealing with commitments and MoUs and the like. transport in the US and Europe. Middle East. First, of the nearly 700 orders announced at Dubai, Boeing’s coup on the first day, with its 787 a tiny fraction were finalised firm orders. The rest deal with Emirates may also have had a subtle, represent either commitments, options or purchase yet important message to the US President rights. and supporters, in that supporting key skilled Second, is that the list price is never paid, and manufacturing jobs in Seattle and across the US, the more you order, the bigger the discount. As should be taken into consideration when American John Leahy quipped of the Indigo Partners $49.5bn carriers protest about unfair competition from Gulf deal: “regrettably they did not pay the full price”. airlines. Indeed, its press releases (both for Emirates A slower way Bulk shopping and pooled orders from multiple and flydubai deals) drew attention to the “tens of to see the UAE airlines – with private equity firms or investors thousands” of US jobs supported by these orders, in fronting the deal, though difficult to co-ordinate, case anyone was unsure. From November could become more popular as airlines discover Despite a week of UAE MoD orders and 2018 there will be a new ways to extract discounts from manufacturers. announcements, the Russian Knights aerobatics more tranquil way to Third, the extended waiting times mean that and the jaw-dropping Su-35 flying in the display, experience the UAE a lot can happen between now and when airlines Russia was unable to clinch a widely rumoured with the launch of luxury might take delivery – the airline might re-evaluate firm order from the UAE AF for the Su-35. Instead, sightseeing Zeppelin its fleet needs, change suppliers or even go bust. reports suggested that the UAE was still keen to airship flights by ‘Spirit Emirates' headline order, for example, for 40 787- acquire the Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter, of the Emirates’. The 10s that kicked the show off, has to be seen in the with Defense News saying there was a requirement airships will be able to context of an earlier cancellation for 70 A350s just for 24 F-35s or two squadrons. While it will most fly up to ten passengers three years ago. probably be a question of ‘when, not if’ the UAE is at a time and the Nevertheless – these announcements represent allowed to buy F-35s, there still remain challenges company says that the a vote of confidence in ongoing demand for global for export approval. first 100 days of flights could potentially see up 2017 Dubai Air Show order round-up to 15,000 passengers flown, enjoying the Total 696 (Total excludes confirmation of previously announced orders) sights of the desert, cities and UAE AIRBUS (455) 25 x A320neo family for Wataniya Airways (LoI), 100 x A320neos and 34 x A321neos for Frontier Airlines (MoU), 56 x coastline. A320neos and 14 x A321neos) for JetSMART (MoU),46 x A320neos and 34 x A321neos for Volaris (MoU), 72 x A320neos and 74 x A321neos for Wizz Air (MoU), 2 x A330neos for Air Senegal (MoU)

BOEING (225) 40 x 787-10 for Emirates, 5 x 787s for Azerbaijan Airlines, 2 x 777F for Ethiopian Airlines,175 x 737 MAXs plus 50 purchase rights for flydubai, 5 x 737 MAX 8s for SCAT Airlines

BOMBARDIER (12) 12 x CSeries CS300 firm for EgyptAir plus 12 purchase rights. (LoI) Spirit of Emirates

@aerosociety i Find us on LinkedIn f Find us on Facebook www.aerosociety.com JANUARY 2018 31 PLANE SPEAKING Tim Peake Plane Speaking with: Tim Peake

Last year saw ESA Astronaut TIM PEAKE conduct a six-month visit to the International Space Station (ISS). Receiving his HonFRAeS certificate in November, we caught up with him to ask whether he still has stars in his eyes.

The official patches Tim n 9 November 2017, the Royal understanding the processes behind the bone mineral wore on his flight suit: Aeronautical Society was privileged density loss and how we can counter that onboard the Expedition 46 patch, to host ESA Astronaut, Major Tim the Space Station to prevent it from happening. Soyuz TMA-19M patch, Peake HonFRAeS at its London HQ. and Principia logo patch. While at the Society, he surprised and AEROSPACE: So countering it is a question of more Oinspired young people at a RAeS ‘Cool Aeronautics’ exercise? STEM outreach event and also delivered an evening TP: It’s not so much exercise. In the beginning, we lecture – ‘Principia – A Journey of a Lifetime’ to the started just doing more exercise. ‘Let’s go exercise Society’s Space Group. We caught up with him to and that will help,’ which it did, but we haven’t got ask him about long-term physiological effects from so much time. We don’t want to waste too much spaceflight, his day-to-day job at ESA’s Astronaut crew time just doing exercise. We’ve become a lot Centre and future plans. smarter in understanding what exercises you need to do and realising that it’s the muscle/ligament/ AEROSPACE: You touched down in June 2016. Are bone interaction that creates the bone growth. So, it’s there any effects of space flight still with you? I’m doing specific exercises, targeting specific areas of thinking of things like blurred vision or unsteadiness the body. or other long-term effects of space flight. TP: Yes. The medical conditions that are still ongoing AEROSPACE: What was the most important science are bone density loss. I didn’t lose that much, about you conducted while you were on the ISS? 2% overall, but it will probably take a full two years TP: Very hard question to answer because we did to recover that 2%. It’s quite remarkable that we’re about 300 experiments during our six months in actually now in a position where we’re recovering space. Every PI (Principal Investigator) would say their back to pre-launch levels. Twenty years ago, that experiment was the most important. By the time you wasn’t the case. Cosmonauts on long-duration go through the process, the peer review, of getting an missions were losing 20% bone mineral density, experiment onboard the International Space Station, which you would never recover. It shows how it’s an important experiment. There’s nothing going on much progress we’ve made, how far we’ve come in up there that isn’t important.

32 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 In terms of some of the experiments I think will You’re very, very busy. There’s no room to think of have the biggest impact, I do think that a lot of the anything except exactly what you’re doing right now, pharmaceutical research we’re doing right now is and to run through that space walk as best as you fascinating. Growing protein crystals in space, using can. those clear, large, pure crystals that you simply cannot grow here on Earth, using those crystals AEROSPACE: As a test pilot, you conducted your to understand disease-causing proteins and then work in relative obscurity. Did you expect this level of being able to create the drugs that will counter those global media and public attention? Did ESA training diseases is fantastic research. That area is very cover ‘Tim-mania’ and how to handle it? exciting. TP: To the best of their ability, yes. It’s very hard to In terms of coming from a test pilot background train for that. We do have PR media training during as well, I’m really excited by some of the metal alloys astronaut basic training that helps you to prepare. I that we’re investigating, using, for example, the have to say, really, by the time you fly to space, the I THINK WE’RE European Space Agency electromagnetic levitator, best training is on-the-job training. By the time you fly GOING TO where we’re understanding about titanium aluminides, to space, you’ve been involved in a number of media for example, and how we can use them to make interviews and presentations, etc. Nothing can really SEE MORE lighter, stronger engine turbine blades which will help prepare you for the impact coming back. I know, PUBLIC-PRIVATE to improve efficiencies back here on Earth. for example, my colleague Thomas Pesquet will be PARTNERSHIPS feeling that right now in France. He’s an absolute hero WITH SPACE AEROSPACE: Obviously, a mission highlight was and he’s going on a post-flight tour and he’s very, very doing a space walk. What was it like being out there busy. EXPLORATION. in the void? Did you have any last-minute nerves of I have to say, it’s an area I wasn’t particularly IT WON’T JUST ‘what am I doing out here?’ comfortable with, coming from a military background, BE A CASE OF TP: I had nerves before going onto a space walk. but you’re also an ambassador for space and it’s part THE NATIONAL I think most astronauts will at some point. You’re of your job. The two go hand-in-hand. You cannot embarking on something that is quite special, be an astronaut and not be expected to have a high SPACE going out into the vacuum of space. I have to say public profile. It’s very much part of the job, and it’s one AGENCIES. IT all apprehension just completely disappeared the I’ve embraced. WILL BE WHEN moment we started depressurising the airlock. It really WE GO TO THE AEROSPACE: Now you’re back on Earth, what’s your was just ‘get down to work’. It was one of those things MOON AND that I felt so relieved to be finally doing, after all the current day job and what does that entail? training, and the years of hard work that had gone TP: The current day job is really the lofty title of ‘Head WHEN WE GO into it, to be able to get on with the job in hand. of Astronaut Team’. To put that in perspective, at the TO MARS

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Left and above: Major Tim during his visit to you spend on this on average, compared to the Hamilton Place. training and astronaut operational work you might be involved with? TP: It’s a very busy schedule. As I mentioned, most of my time is spent doing my normal day job of being the head of the astronaut team. I get two days per month for outreach and PR. That’s it.

AEROSPACE: You talk about commercialisation of European Space Agency, we have currently ten active space. What’s your opinion of the ‘space tourist’ or astronauts. Paolo Nespoli from Italy is onboard right ‘space adventurers’? There has been a lot of interest now. I mentioned Thomas just got back. Alex Gerst in someone that might, say, pay for a trip around the from Germany launches next June. So, we have a Moon. Do you think there’s anything worthwhile to very active flight regimen, probably about one flight be gained from that? Is there any useful science that per year. I am managing the ten active astronauts and might come back? looking after all the support we give them, whether TP: I think that what’s worthwhile about these they’re training, whether they’re onboard the Space ventures are the companies that provide these Station or whether they’ve just come back from their services or are looking to provide these services, mission. they’re at the absolute cutting edge of technology. For example, Virgin Galactic, when you think of the AEROSPACE: In terms of the future, for your next environment, the flight regime that they’re looking mission, when do you think you might expect to fly at putting their vehicle through, from 100km up into another mission to the ISS? space and then to four minutes of weightlessness TP: It’s a good question. The good news is that the and to fall back, that’s really an area that we haven’t international partners have agreed that the Space explored that much. They are cutting-edge areas of Station will be extended to 2024. We’re going to technology. increase the number of commercial crew coming Going to the Moon, whether it’s astronauts, online fairly soon with Boeing and Space X, that will whether it’s space flight participants, research enable four seats to the Space Station plus the three scientists, whatever you want to call them, in order seats on the Soyuz which gives a nice crew of seven. to do these missions, we are basically building So, we’ll increase the permanent crew from six to components that are helping reduce the cost of seven, so there’ll be more opportunities for astronaut access to space, and actually helping the national flight as well. The short answer is that me and the space agencies to progress with their missions, as well. other active astronauts in the corps, will all get the The 22 member ESA flight chance for a second mission to the Space Station by patch. I think we’re going to see more public-private 2024 but exactly when that’s going to be, I don’t know. partnerships with space exploration. It won’t just be a case of the national space agencies. It will be AEROSPACE: You have talked about your day job, when we go to the Moon and when we go to Mars. outreach and STEM are obviously a big part of the You’ll have the national space agencies and big job. You’ve been talking to schoolkids at our Cool international partnerships and commercial companies Aeronautics outreach initiative. How much time do will be very much included in that partnership.

34 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 AEROSPACE: Talking of space agencies, in a activities you can get involved in. If you’re interested relatively short period of time, the UK has gone from in science, if you’re interested in space and satellites and services to a British ESA astronaut and exploration, then these are the kind of careers that talking about EVA training pool and possibly planning you can have. a spaceport. Where do you see Britain’s future in space? AEROSPACE: More generally, what advice have TP: I see Britain as having a very active role and a other veteran astronauts perhaps given you that very bright future in space. We’ve had a fantastic have stuck with you about flying in space but also space industry for a number of years. It’s been a about the job, generally? Any advice that sticks with hidden success story for many, many years and you? now, more recently, it’s become more publicly known TP: Helen Sharman, it was great to talk to her about what we’re doing. You mentioned the activities before the mission. We’ve chatted on many, many we’re involved in now. We’re world leaders in some occasions and she said, quite rightly: “Don’t forget areas, such as telecommunications, in small satellite to just take some time to actually absorb what it is production, for example, in rover technology. Airbus you’re doing.” I think that’s very important, especially are prime builders for the next Mars Rover the on a shorter duration mission, such as for Andreas European Space Agency is going to put onto Mars. Mogensen, for example. Your workload is so high We have these fantastic industries and an incredible workforce that is producing this. I think we have a very, very important role to play in the future.

AEROSPACE: Obviously, you’re the most high-profile figure in this but do you think that there’s been a fundamental shift in how young people in the UK see space in this country, stemming from talking to somebody who’s actually been there? TP: I hope so. That was certainly the intention of Mission Principia. We wanted to use this wonderful opportunity we had ... and they don’t come around very often ... we wanted to use the opportunity to the best of our ability to reach out to the younger generation. We know that we have a huge STEM skills gap shortage in the UK that we’re trying to address. We wanted to reach out to those people to bring space closer and to say: “Look. There is an awful lot happening in the UK. These are the ESA

Above: Major Tim for that period of time, it’s nice to just be able to (horizontally seated) in take a few minutes every day and maybe go to the training. cupula window and take some time for yourself to Below left: Receiving appreciate the position you’re in and what you’re his RAeS Honorary seeing. Fellowship certificate and Geoffrey Pardoe Space Award. AEROSPACE: What’s the thing you miss the most from your mission? TP: The thing I miss the most, without a doubt, is the view of planet Earth. I’m sure that if I had the chance to go back again, that would be one of the first things I would do, would be to grab a camera and go to the window.

AEROSPACE: The final question and this was also a question to Elon Musk when he was here, what is your favourite fictional spaceship? TP: I’m a huge Star Wars fan, also Star Trek as well. Watched a lot of that. So, fictional spaceship. Gosh. Let’s go with the Enterprise.

@aerosociety i Find us on LinkedIn f Find us on Facebook www.aerosociety.com JANUARY 2018 35 UAVs Careers Manned engineering USAF USAF

PETER HEAP, senior consultant in the aerospace and defence division at engineering and manufacturing recruitment specialist Jonathan Lee Recruitment, explains why the unmanned air vehicle (UAV) sector represents an exciting career opportunity for ex-forces technicians and engineers.

ccording to the UK Government’s recent While a substantial amount of investment in UAV industry growth consultation response Unlocking the UAV technology has been for military applications, between 2015-2020 UK’s High-Tech Economy: Consultation BI Intelligence predicts that most growth in the UAV on the Safe Use of Drones in the UK, industry will be on the civilian side, with an expected 19% Goldman Sachs predicted that the compound growth rate of 19% between 2015 and Civilian growth globalA spend on drones in construction, agriculture 2020, compared with 5% growth on the military side. insurance and infrastructure inspection between 2016 With more than £250m components being and 2020 would be almost $20bn. This would be exported by the UK in 2015 for the rapidly 5% matched by predicted retail and consumer global sales expanding global UAV market, it is not surprising Military growth in 2020 of 7.8million drones, totalling around $3.3bn. that this emerging technology represents an exciting In the 2016 report Clarity from Above, PwC opportunity for ex-military engineers with related skill- estimates that the global drone application market sets. would be worth more than £120bn by 2025. Large- scale capital projects, infrastructure maintenance Commercial application of UAVs and agriculture will account for more than half of the predicted market, as the technology enables A pioneer in the sector, the UK has a number easier and safer accessibility, big data capability and of specialist companies working in the UAV delivers process improvements across a range of industry across the full spectrum of applications. commercial applications and industries. As a recruitment consultancy that specialises in

36 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 NASA image analysis, maintenance, modification and operational support. Demand for power and propulsion systems, navigation systems, batteries, controllers and camera experts will also increase as regulation and competition in the sector intensifies and UAV applications evolve. Developing UAV technology requires technical experience and qualifications in areas such as aeronautical engineering, electronics, robotics and mechanical engineering. Commercial roles in terms of sales for both suppliers and manufacturers are also in growing demand. NASA engineering and manufacturing, we have seen a rapid rise in the global market for UAVs being matched by demand for specialist engineers to design, develop and maintain fleets. One of the key drivers in commercial markets adopting UAVs is safety, to remove pilots from hazardous situations. However, they are proving valuable in an increasingly diverse range of applications. Traditionally used in the military, it is not surprising that the commercial sector sees ex-military personnel as a natural fit for emerging civilian roles. The requirement for UAV specialist skill-sets is set to intensify as the UAV penetrates new applications and markets. From planning search and rescue missions in isolated geographical and remote locations through to everyday applications, UAV technology is being adopted to an array of industries. Applications include As the market matures there will be increasing defence and border control, recording and monitoring demand for maintenance and repair roles and people coastal erosion, analysing geographical changes, with the capability to customise units or to perform planning flood defences, supporting inspection to specific industry-related tasks. predicting maintenance programmes in agriculture, forestry, construction, energy and transport UAV careers are poised for take off infrastructure. From fixed-wing, rotary blade and hybrid systems, According to the MoD’s official provider of Armed through to sophisticated imaging and data gathering, Forces Resettlement, The Career Transition UAVs are being developed to adapt to a wide range Partnership, more than 14,000 skilled and experienced of practical applications. These include specific tasks, individuals leave the armed forces each year. such as crop spraying, 3D scanning of bridges and With roles ranging from maintenance technicians, structures or even helping to identify and tackle pilots, operators, design engineers, systems engineers forest fires. IT IS NOT and software engineers, the industry is particularly keen SURPRISING to recruit professionals with operational experience in Specialist skills hazardous environments or anyone from a military or THAT THE defence environment that has the life experience and While there will naturally be a crossover of skills for COMMERCIAL skill-sets needed for these demanding roles. military UAV trained pilots, the skill-sets in demand [UAV] SECTOR We see engineering skills in demand across the will go well beyond piloting the craft, with career board but the UAV sector is particularly well-suited opportunities that parallel any aircraft. This particularly SEES EX- to ex-forces personnel, as they are well versed in offers rich pickings for military trained mechanical MILITARY the safety aspects of the available roles. engineers, avionics engineers, electrical engineers PERSONNEL AS For the many HM Forces engineers entering and project chiefs. A NATURAL FIT civilian life and indeed, anyone with an aerospace In fact, opportunities will be available for anyone engineering background with an emphasis on that can bring field-based military experience of FOR EMERGING technical compliance and safety, prospects in the remote piloting, sensor operation, data analysis, CIVILIAN ROLES UAV sector have never been better.

@aerosociety i Find us on LinkedIn f Find us on Facebook www.aerosociety.com JANUARY 2018 37 DEFENCE History The Riddle of the Sandys RAeS (NAL) RAeS

Duncan Sandys (in)famously declared in his 1957 Defence White Paper: ‘No more manned fighters’. MICK OAKEY* reports on a Historical Group seminar taking a long-perspective look at its implications.

oo! Hiss!’ remains the standard stature of Britain’s aerospace industry. Above: Bristol Bloodhound reaction, 60 years on, to any mention Setting the scene in his introduction to the day, surface-to-air guided of Duncan Sandys and his ‘infamous’ Peter described Sandys’ unenviable reputation missiles. 1957 Defence White Paper, which for taking a very large axe to the industry, and for declared ‘no more manned fighters’ destroying RAF pilots’ prospects, but asked the ‘Bfor the UK’s armed services. Looked at through question – was it all bad? the long perspective of history, however, black- First speaker up was Professor Keith Hayward and-white begins to resolve into many shades of FRAeS, the Society’s former Head of Research, grey (possibly more than 50) – and this is why the presenting ‘The Industrial Consequences of the time seemed right for the RAeS Historical Group 1957 Defence White Paper’. Keith opened by to stage a one-day seminar on the subject at No.4 providing a succinct political background against Hamilton Place. which to set all of the seminar’s content and The ‘1957 Defence Review: The Riddle of the asserted that the 1957 review was not necessarily Sandys’ on 24 October drew 30-plus delegates to a massive turning-point in itself – rather, it was part London to listen to presentations by five speakers of a bigger entirety, the auguries for which had – all of whom offered fresh and stimulating insights existed for some years. The mounting expense – and to engage in lively panel discussions. Curated of developing modern aircraft was making by my fellow Historical Group committee members rationalisation essential in an aircraft industry made Nick Stroud and Barry Pegram, and presided over up of private firms which were weathering the post- by the group’s chairman Peter Elliott, the seminar war climate with widely varying degrees of success. *Committee member, aimed to test the validity of the accepted view: A forced consolidation would be painful but would RAeS Historical Group; that the Defence Review led merely to cancelled provide a springboard for a new generation of Managing Editor, The projects and an overall reduction in the size and military aircraft, as well as international collaboration. Aviation Historian

38 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 Next to speak was author and researcher rocket/jet interceptor; the anti-submarine Short Greg Baughen, who offered ‘A Brief History of the Seamew; the Fairey Delta 3/F.155 interceptor; Future’. Opening his screen presentation with a and the Hawker P.1121 supersonic fighter (not tongue-in-cheek animated caricature of Sandys strictly cancelled by the White Paper itself, as it sprouting missiles as devil’s horns, Greg immediately had not been ordered by the RAF but the effect galvanised the room by testing everyone’s aircraft- was the same). In offering a personal view of how THE MOUNTING recognition and analytical skills. His aim here the projects may have fared had they continued, EXPENSE OF was to make the point that decades of Air Staff Tony concluded that only the P.1121 would have DEVELOPING thinking were dominated by a definition of ‘fighter had much of a future, as an eminently exportable MODERN aircraft’ as ‘short-range interceptors to shoot down successor to the Hunter. As it was, though, bombers’, ignoring its tactical roles in ground-attack, cancellation of the P.1121 led to its replacement AIRCRAFT air superiority and so on (and even the decisive at Kingston by the P.1127 – which ultimately, as WAS MAKING fighter-to-fighter combat of the Battle of Britain did the Harrier, changed the face of high-performance RATIONALISATION not change that). It was this focus on ‘the bomber combat aircraft and became one of the 1957 will always get through’ – and thus end civilisation review’s most positive outcomes. ESSENTIAL IN – that prompted interest in pilotless aircraft from Moving from aircraft to missiles – of which AN AIRCRAFT the 1920s onwards, as autopilots, navigation aids Sandys was a strong proponent — fourth speaker INDUSTRY MADE and methods of remote guidance were developed. Dr Malcolm Claus MRAeS, from Kingston University, UP OF PRIVATE The advent of the atom bomb and, soon afterwards, presented ‘Sandys: the Missile Perspective’. Offering the hydrogen bomb, led to post-war requirements an authoritative view of the dawn of the UK’s FIRMS for long-range expendable high-altitude supersonic missile era, Malcolm described the development of bombers capable of reaching Moscow, with heavy air-launched guided weapons – Vickers’ Red surface-to-air guided weapons (SAGW) for home RAeS (NAL) defence. Thus both bombers and ‘fighters’ would be pilotless – and, as Harold Macmillan suggested, lots of money could be saved by abolishing RAF Fighter Command. Indeed, Macmillan was – in terms of philosophy – the architect of the 1957 review; he gave Sandys (a career opportunist if ever there was one) the job of pulling it all together, in the knowledge that Sandys was big enough and ugly enough to take the inevitable flak. As the ensuing first panel discussion underlined, the Air Force Board supported these radical plans but it was Sandys’ role to state them publicly. If Sandys and his defence review had not come along, Britain would probably have been in much worse trouble. As it was, the review provided a platform for a new, more flexible approach, although it took 20 more years to get the industry on to a properly effective footing. Dean and Red Hebe missiles and de Havilland’s Duncan Sandys, Minister Following the lunchbreak, historian Tony Buttler Blue Vesta – which failed to thrive owing to excess of Aviation, left, and ARAeS presented ‘The 1957 White Paper – The weight, size, or lack of platform. He went on to chart Peter Masefield, RAeS President 1959-1960. Cancelled Projects’. He began by describing some the creation and adoption of the impressive-looking Both discussed the projects which, although often thought to have but short-range Bristol Bloodhound 1 and how it White Paper on Defence been killed off by the review, in fact were not: fitted into the Stage Plan to provide an integrated in their speeches at such as the Hawker P.1083 supersonic Hunter, UK air-defence network; Blue Envoy, cancelled the Royal Aeronautical actually abandoned in 1953 because necessary by the 1957 White Paper; and Bloodhound 2, Society’s 94th Anniversary radar and other equipment could not be fitted into which soldiered on until 1991. Malcolm concluded Luncheon at the the airframe; the Supermarine 545 crescent-wing with a look at missed opportunities for potential Dorchester Hotel, London, Swift, cancelled in 1954 when the requirement for Bloodhound developments – the nuclear Mk 3, the on 12 January 1960. it faded; and Gloster’s thin-wing Javelin, cancelled Mk 4 to replace the Army’s Thunderbird Mk 2, and in 1956 when it became apparent that the Avro the simplified Mk 21 export derivative. Canada Arrow offered much better performance. Completing a consistently strong line-up of Five projects, however, were victims of the White speakers, Dr Michael Pryce MRAeS from Cranfield Paper: the Avro 730 canard high-altitude recce/ University presented ‘The Sandys White Paper and bomber and its Bristol 188 stainless-steel research its Impact 1960–2060’. In a quickfire delivery of vehicle (although the latter survived for a few years ideas and insights, he likened the defence review in a different role, gathering expertise which was to putting a stick in the spokes of the British put to use in Concorde); the Saunders-Roe SR.177 aircraft industry’s bicycles and seeing who fell off.

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The second English Electric P1B, XA853. The P1, later named Lightning, escaped cancellation in the White Paper. RAeS (NAL) RAeS RAeS (NAL) RAeS RAeS (NAL) RAeS Two Gloster Javelin F(AW)6s of 85 Squadron, XA832 and XH695. A The full-size wooden mock-up of the Saunders-Roe SR.177 at Cowes large proportion of the R&D and procurement of this ‘all-British’ aircraft in November 1957. This project, a combined jet- and rocket-powered was paid for by the US. interceptor for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, was a victim of the White Paper.

He went on to point out that the military side of on industrial stability stemming from profits on the industry was in any case hardly all-British, as a American-funded Hunters, led to the development huge proportion of Javelins, Hunters and Valiants of the Harrier, as well as sales of the Hawk to the (and much R&D) were paid for by the US under the USA and, ultimately, to involvement in the F-35. And, Mutual Defence Assistance Programme. Sandys by the way, TSR.2 was ‘a piece of rubbish’. entered a complex thicket of issues and hacked Summing up his presentation, Michael Pryce through it, recognising the need to cut military and reflected the consensus of the whole seminar. Did industry manpower, create exports, keep close to Sandys kill off manned fighters? Self-evidently, no. Did the US especially post-Suez Crisis and restructure Sandys have an impact? Yes, in many and varied ways. before the nuclear threat from the USSR grew too The above is, by necessity, a very abbreviated mighty. A lasting result of Sandys’ review flowed account of a very full day and I hope I have not from his single-minded drive to mechanise Britain’s misrepresented any speakers through simplification. ‘East of Suez’ presence, which bolstered that part Concluding the seminar, Peter Elliott blended the of the industry which built large aircraft – ultimately shades of grey into a picture which showed that, providing the country’s buy-in to Airbus. More than while Sandys may have wielded the axe, others had that, a 50-year relationship with the US, based most certainly sharpened it for him.

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Diary 13 February Cody Lecture Flying the Shuttleworth aircraft Paul Shakespeare Empire Test Pilots’ School

Replica Sopwith Triplane ‘N6290 DIXIE II’ of the Shuttleworth Collection. Alan Wilson.

42 Message from RAeS 44 Book Reviews 50 Young Persons Network - President Testing to the Limits, Calculated Risk and Civil and Event 2017 Commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems. “This year will see a number of key events which Young members gathered in Filton to exchange will impact on the Royal Aeronautical Society. High ideas while also motivating other young members on that list is, of course, the RAF 100 celebrations 47 Library Additions to continue to develop themselves through actively to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the engaging in the Society. formation of the World’s First Independent Air Force Books submitted to the National Aerospace Library. on 1 April 1918.” 52 Diary 48 Sir Henry Royce Lecture Find out when and where around the world the - Chief Executive latest Society aeronautical and aerospace lectures Mark Burns, President of Gulfstream, delivered the and events are happening. “It was wonderful to see so many of our Corporate 53rd Sir Henry Royce Lecture to the Derby Branch, Partners at our UK Parliamentary Reception at the entitled: ‘Gulfstream: Perspectives, Technology and start of December where we had the opportunity to Innovation’. network with many MPs and Peers from all political 55 New Corporate Partners parties interested in civil and defence aerospace Three new companies join the Society’s Corporate and aviation.” Partner Scheme.

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ACM Sir Stephen Dalton First of all, I would like to wish all our members A indications are that private finance is ready to Happy, Prosperous and Productive 2018! support such programmes and there is every This year will see a number of key events which potential for launch-sites to be developed in new will impact on the Royal Aeronautical Society. High locations as another game-changing element of this on that list is, of course, the RAF 100 celebrations fast-growing environment. Alongside the business to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the and technical development there is also every sign formation of the World’s First Independent Air that the regulators in the UK, UKSpace, the CAA et Force on 1 April 1918. Over the century, the men al are moving in unison with the developing options and women of the Royal Air Force have provided and are working well to provide the necessary outstanding service to the UK and have worked legislative framework in the necessary timeframe. most effectively with the air forces in all of the We would be well served, if those regulations could countries in which the Society has branches. Air be ready ahead of the first flights and not trying power capabilities, often pioneered by the Royal Air to catch-up with the capabilities, as we have seen Force, have made huge strides in the last 100 years with the requirement for new regulations on UAV and many of the technological advances have had operations highlighted in the UK in the last few direct benefit to the commercial sector. The Society weeks of 2017! is delighted that the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Finally, many of you will recall the Society’s Marshal Steve Hillier, has chosen to deliver his RAF hosted debate at the start of its 150th Year 100 address on the achievements of the RAF at the programme and may have seen the article in the RAeS in April 2018. recent Business Travel News publication confirming THE SOCIETY IS The recent RAeS President’s Conference that the major airline manufacturers are now on ‘The Commercialisation of Space’ (pp 18- focusing on the probable requirement for airlines DELIGHTED THAT 21) highlighted a number of new and exciting to be able to fly their passenger-aircraft employing THE CHIEF OF developments in the space world. The progress by only a single pilot. This is something that has been THE AIR STAFF, AIR private UK-based companies in the development of coming for some time but is only now gaining their space programmes is very impressive and holds effective recognition. With a global requirement, CHIEF MARSHAL the promise of some great opportunities for the UK estimated to be for in excess of 600,000 new pilots STEVE HILLIER, and many other countries and regions. Whether it over the next 20 years and a training capacity unable HAS CHOSEN is in the world of clusters of micro-satellites being to meet that requirement, this should not come as a TO DELIVER launched to provide Internet connectivity to the surprise. Equally, the design of modern commercial whole of Africa using satellites specifically designed aircraft is such that, it is entirely feasible for a single HIS RAF 100 to ensure that all the components are ‘burnt-up’ as pilot to fly and manage the workload. However, we ADDRESS ON THE they re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere or radically need to consider the fare-paying passenger and the ACHIEVEMENTS new engines, combining both turbofan efficiency ‘what-ifs’ ahead of the time when it will be become OF THE RAF AT and rocket power or the development of completely critical to plan for single-pilot operations. There will new methods of launching and recovering space be considerable resistance to the idea and concern THE RAES IN vehicles, there is no shortage of new technology, for the effectiveness of such operations and not just APRIL 2018 thinking and entrepreneurship. Equally, the from the professional pilot fraternity!

Ralph Robins Medal Thirty years after the then CEO, Sir Ralph Robins, took the company and to UK engineering during his long career, funds courageous decision to allow Rolls-Royce to go ahead with the are now being raised that will provide for the ‘Ralph Robins development of the Trent engine, the company can look back at Medal for Excellence in Engineering Leadership’ to be awarded the remarkable achievement of over 6,000 Trent engines so far periodically to those that have demonstrated early in their careers sold to no fewer than 175 international airline customers. Today extraordinary engineering leadership qualities. the Trent family powers seven different aircraft types. With the personal blessing of Sir Ralph, the award scheme Sir Ralph Robins is a quite remarkable and exceptional man has already achieved considerable support. A large number of and his achievements in turning around the fortunes of Rolls- substantial commitments have now been received and each Royce, in laying the foundations of-long term success against individual pledge made on the website so far will be equally the odds and in motivating all those around him have been well matched by an amount up to £100,000. The total amount raised documented. so far exceeds £190,000 and your support to this excellent Coinciding with this 30th anniversary and to further award scheme is invited on the website below. recognise the huge contribution that Sir Ralph made to both the https://www.trent30anniversary.com/pledge-your-support

42 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 OUR CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Simon C Luxmoore  Firstly, I would like to wish all our members a and therefore provided great value to our Happy New Year and thank you for your support Corporate Partners. during 2017! I would also like to thank the  On 21 November, President-Elect Simon Henley RAeS Staff and Volunteers for their continued gave oral evidence to the House of Commons hard work and commitment to the Society and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy look forward to achieving the Society’s initiatives Committee as part of its inquiry into Leaving in 2018 – as we extend our global reach in the EU: Implications for Industry (Aerospace). key markets; continue to provide impartial and During the session, Simon highlighted issues independent advice in the on-going Brexit raised from within the Society’s membership negotiations and its impact on the industry; about the importance of maintaining air traffic deliver our learned output agenda through our rights, resolving the UK’s involvement in the CP briefings, outreach and Branch programme European Aviation Safety Agency, ensuring of activities. continued access to EU space programmes,  The Society’s annual Wilbur and Orville Wright the importance of the industry being able to Lecture was delivered last month by Martin recruit specialist employees, the vital role of Rolfe FRAeS, Chief Executive Officer of NATS. industry and research coloration across borders Martin discussed the challenging times ahead and frictionless access to the Single Market, for air traffic management and outlined some as well as recommending a smooth transition of NATS’ solutions to these challenges in terms beyond March 2019. The appearance generated of technology and concepts that will be key substantial UK and international press coverage to ensuring the UK remains a world leader in by the likes of the BBC, The Daily Telegraph, ATM. If you missed the event, watch it now on The Guardian, Reuters, The Independent, Sky our YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/ News and Flight Global. You can watch Simon’s aerosociety appearance at www.aerosociety.com/  Also available on the Society’s Podcasts is the BEISCommittee recording of the 2017 Brabazon Named Lecture  Our Programme of Corporate Partner Briefings when Alan Joyce FRAeS, CEO of Qantas is shaping up nicely for the year. We will kick ON 21 gave members an insight into how Qantas off on the 18th of this month with a briefing by NOVEMBER, transformed its business in three years. He talks Eric Bernardini of AlixPartners on trends and about taking delivery of the state-of-the-art opportunities in the aerospace and defence PRESIDENT 787-9 Dreamliner and how Qantas has set its sectors. Following that, we have an exciting list of ELECT SIMON sights on the last frontier of aviation – the ultra guest speakers lined up, including Air Cdre Frank HENLEY GAVE long-haul flight from the east coast of Australia Clifford, RAF Force Protection Force Commander; ORAL EVIDENCE to London or New York. Visit Russ Torbet, Director UKSAR, Bristow Helicopters www.aerosociety.com/Brabazon2017 and AVM Richard Knighton, Assistant Chief of TO THE HOUSE  It was wonderful to see so many of our Defence Staff C&FD. Further details on these OF COMMONS Corporate Partners at our UK Parliamentary events are available on our website. BUSINESS, Reception at the start of December where we  With the focus on wellbeing and looking after ENERGY AND had the opportunity to network with many MPs colleagues and clients and people’s mental and Peers from all political parties interested in health, No.4 Hamilton Place has new daily INDUSTRIAL civil and defence aerospace and aviation. We delegate rates available to suit everyone, STRATEGY were kindly hosted by James Gray MP, Chair of including the introduction of a superfoods COMMITTEE the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed conference package to give guests healthier Forces, with generous support from Airbus, food options. AS PART OF ITS Aviation Logistics Network and Raytheon, as  We are also looking to continue to improve the INQUIRY INTO we heard from the Minister for Investment, venue with a general redecoration of the House LEAVING THE EU: Mark Garnier MP. The event really underlined over the Christmas holidays and moving into IMPLICATIONS the Society’s ability to reach and be influential 2018, as well as a new screen in the Bill Boeing with Parliamentarians and highlight some of the Theatre and PA system in the Argyll Room FOR INDUSTRY key policy areas where the Society has made among other areas of investment that will take (AEROSPACE) recommendations for the benefit of our industry place in 2018.

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Crecy Publishing, 1a Ringway Trading Estate, Shawdowmoss Road, Manchester M22 5LH, UK. 2016. 238pp; 336pp. Illustrated. £24.95 per volume. ISBN 978-0-85979184-7; ISBN 978-0- 8597-9185-4.

This large-size, two-volume magnum opus – the result of 20 years of assiduous research by a seasoned, widely-accomplished and highly- In his Foreword to the second volume, John respected aviation journalist, magazine editor, Farley, former British Aerospace Harrier test pilot, author and private pilot – is an incredibly detailed, discusses the modern-day test pilot’s role in the comprehensively and interestingly written, profusely age of automation and the computer. Having been illustrated and valuable record and reference convinced of their capability, he states that the issue charting the careers and endeavours of more than for him is: “ ... not whether computers can fly an 400 British company test pilots over the last century, aeroplane better than humans but whether they can and who have consistently probed both the ‘known be made reliable enough.” He also draws attention unknowns’ and the potentially life-threatening to the fatality rate of British test pilots and agrees ‘unknown unknowns’ so often involved. that: “ ... their level of sacrifice (101) is frightening.” Moreover, it is far more than a simplistic This concluding volume then features chapters alphabetically-listed catalogue and calendar of about the mass production testing at the wartime their inter-related individual career biographies, Shadow Factories; the testing of in-flight refuelling; Clockwise from far left: Cyril incidents, anecdotes and first-hand quotes, with aircraft demonstration and sales support; assistant Uwins made the first flights of 58 aircraft types for the each entry being prefaced with the leading details and production test pilots; and the role of the Civil Bristol Aeroplane Company. of the principal aircraft type(s) with which they were Aviation Authority (CAA) in aircraft certification. RAeS (NAL). associated. Both volumes are also prefaced and The copious appendices in both volumes include As Chief Test Pilot for English complemented with in-depth contextual chapters, lists of test pilots by manufacturer; a list of all Electric, Roland Beamont appendices and indexes. The whole represents a surviving British prototypes; a brief genealogy of UK made the first flights of the Canberra, Lightning and stirring tribute to, and vibrant commentary on, the aviation companies; and an extensive bibliography TSR.2. entire gamut of the British test flying operation, – which also collectively and graphically illustrate Bill Bedford made the first which has always represented one of the most the huge implicit transformational technological flights of the Hawker P.1127, vital and influential sectors of the aeronautical advances and industrial consolidations that have Kestrel and Harrier. RAeS (NAL). profession. been so influential in the test flying regime across Brian Trubshaw made the In his Foreword to the first volume, Chris Yeo, the intervening century. first flight of the first British former BAe Systems Typhoon test pilot, opines: This unique encyclopedic masterwork is Concorde, 002. RAeS (NAL). “Test pilots can answer the twin questions: does (the thus a most deserving tribute to the British aircraft) perform its design missions successfully test pilot fraternity, upon whose shoulders has and can an ‘average’ pilot fly it safely and effectively consistently rested not only the demonstration of when he is tired, systems have failed, the weather the airworthiness, technical integrity, performance is bad and events are conspiring against him? It is and certification of the product itself, be it civil or Extended historic these fundamental issues that link a test pilot in military, but also imperatively assured the safety and interviews with the 21st century with all those who, throughout the confidence of the commercial airline passenger, the a number of history of manned aviation, climbed into a prototype astronomical proportions of which now constitute leading British and aircraft and with varying degrees of confidence and the central dynamic of global mobility. American test pilots stoicism first took to the air.” As such, the diligence and perspicacity of the from the National The contents range from an extensive and author makes it not only highly-recommended Aerospace Library perceptive introduction, notably acknowledging reading and reference, but the exceptional Sound Archive are seven earlier classic test pilot autobiographies; via breadth and value of its content also bequeaths the definition of a test pilot; the role of the famous a correspondingly outstanding contribution to the available to listen to Empire Test Pilots School; the designer-pilot; testing British aviation literary lexicon. via www.aerosociety. on the production line; testing engines and support com/podcast – just systems; the trials and tribulations of the service test Dr Norman Barfield click on the arrow institutions; to a glimpse of the remotely-piloted future. CEng FRAeS button to ‘Play’

44 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 CALCULATED RISK The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom By G Leopold

Purdue University Press, Stewart Center, 504 W State Street, West Lafayette, IN 49707-2058, USA. 2016. 402pp. Illustrated. $29.95. ISBN 978-1- 55753-745-4.

As a boy, I grew up an hour west on Highway 50 from Mitchell, Indiana – Gus Grissom’s home town – visiting Spring Mill State Park and its Virgil I Gus Grissom Memorial Museum more times than I can count. The Molly Brown spacecraft from Gemini III, restored and reverently displayed, is a familiar landmark for me. Calculated Risk presents an unvarnished, meticulously researched view of Gus Grissom’s personal life, his years at NASA and the legacy of his contribution to the early days of manned space flight. Leopold’s biography makes it clear that Grissom, like the more famous names in that Mercury class, believed in the cause in which he was engaged and was prepared to risk everything to make the American dreams of space travel a reality. His focus and professionalism had him earmarked for the first Apollo lunar mission, had the tragic Apollo 1 fire not changed history forever. Grissom, when asked to give an impromptu address to 18,000 employees at the General Dynamics Convair plant who were working on the Atlas boosters on which he and his fellow Mercury astronauts would travel to space, said simply: ‘Well, do good work’. That simple, direct and plain-spoken attitude captured Grissom’s personality but also his Midwestern roots, shaped by his time in the USAF. As much a product of the Cold War as his working class roots in small town Indiana, Grissom brought a test pilot’s rigour and an engineer’s analytical skills to NASA’s formative years but that focus came with its own burdens and cost to his personal relationships. Leopold reminds us that the hagiography of astronauts, while often deserved, can mask the fact that they are more often than not, ordinary people who achieve extraordinary things through hard work and dedication.

Matthew Goodman

Clockwise: Gemini-Titan III, lifted off Pad 19 on 23 March 1965 with Gus Grissom and John Young on board. Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom with a model of Gemini-Titan III. The Gemini III spacecraft, with flotation collar still attached, is hoisted aboard the USS Intrepid during recovery operations. Gus Grissom, pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) spaceflight, in his Mercury Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, checking his flight plan during prelaunch activities, 21 July 1961.NASA.

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By J Gundlach technologies for civilian missions. These include: A DJI Inspire professional surveying, mapping, and aerial photography; UAS. Kwangmo. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, law enforcement and public safety; journalism, Reston, VA, USA. 2016. Distributed by Transatlantic cinematography, and photography; and hobbies, art, Publishers Group, 97 Greenham Road, London N10 and recreation. Indeed, there are over 70 mission 1LN, UK. 474pp. Illustrated. £97. [20% discount types described, plus sections on UAS types, available to RAeS members on request; E mark. regulation (US-specific), economics and business [email protected] T +44 (0)20 8815 5994]. models, plus a range of subjects including safety, ISBN 978-1-62410-354-4. airspace integration, RF spectrum and privacy. While the section dealing with regulations has even now This excellent and wide-ranging book, aimed at a (2017) been superseded, this is acknowledged broad range of readers, including students, service and anticipated by the author, such is his pragmatic companies, systems developers, investors, customers approach to unmanned aviation. and policy makers is written by Jay Gundlach, a Gundlach brings to this book a refreshing leading UAS expert with two decades of experience insight into the application of UAS from a practical in UAS product development. Previously, he was perspective, based on his own experiences. a Director at Aurora Flight Sciences, and Vice Whereas numerous other books on this topic President of Advanced Development at Insitu, and provide comprehensive lists of missions, that brings to this book all the benefits of his experience. UAS are capable of – today and in the future – to Civil and Commercial Unmanned Aircraft perform, Gundlach provides practical insights Gundlach Systems is a well-written, easy to read, and into the missions themselves, including equipage brings to detailed book which describes the uses of civil and requirements and enablers, plus technological, commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from regulatory, operational and practical aspects of what this book a a practical perspective. It provides an excellent needs to be considered for each mission type. In refreshing introduction to the revolutionary changes in aviation addition, there is a useful collection of colour plates insight into the due to the rapid implementation of UAS. at the end of the book demonstrating imagery types application Gundlach considers commercial applications, from a variety of sensors. and even touches on military matters when they Overall, an excellent introduction to the of UAS from overlap but the book’s primary focus is on civil UAS business and, as the author points out, an a practical unmanned aircraft systems, used by individuals accessible starting point for further exploration. perspective, and by the public sector for such purposes as based on recreation, law enforcement, emergency response Andrew Chadwick and scientific research. CEng MRAeS his own Among the more detailed topics are system Vice-Chairman, UAS Specialist Group Committee experiences

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Thursday 10 May 2018 / London Mark Burns has been President of Gulfstream since July 2015, having previously spent seven years as head of product support. He has a BEng from Georgia Southern University and started his Gulfstream career in 1983 as a CAD draughter. Mark noted that, poetically, a previous President gave a Sir Henry Royce Lecture the year he joined the company; the year that the Gulfstream IV with Rolls-Royce engines was publicly announced. This proved to be a very significant product line for the company, with production of its final G450 variant only this year. Mark provided a brief introduction to Gulfstream, which has been in the business aviation industry since 1958 with the Rolls-Royce-Dart powered GI. This close relationship with Rolls-Royce has gone from strength to strength, continuing up to the G650ER powered by the Rolls-Royce BR725 and over 2,000 Rolls-Royce-powered Gulfstream aircraft delivered. 2,600 Gulfstream aircraft are currently in service, with four types in production and two further in development. The fleet is growing at 4% a year. The company employs 15,000 people and has 64% of its market in the US and 12% in Asia. Gulfstream prides itself on its customer service and differentiates itself in the market by having both the finest aircraft and an excellent customer Established as a key event in the social Guest of Honour service; or, as Mark Burns described it: “Standing behind each of them as long as customers own it.” calendar of the aviation and aerospace Marillyn A Hewson FRAeS It tries to live by the expression: ‘consider it done – community, the Royal Aeronautical Society Chairman, President and CEO Lockheed Martin Corporation fast’. Annual Banquet attracts high level industry One of the proudest achievements of Gulfstream is that the latest Gulfstream G650ER attendance and offers the ideal opportunity Venue can fly 7,500 nautical miles at 0.85 Mach Number for networking and corporate entertainment. The InterContinental London Park Lane, which could take you from London to Jakarta or Above: Mark Burns takes questions at the end of his lecture. to as far as Singapore at 0.9 Mach Number. Mark THIS CLOSE One Hamilton Place, London W1J 7QY, UK Top: The latest Gulfstream G650ER. Gulfstream. was proud of this aircraft winning the 2014 Collier RELATIONSHIP Individual tickets and corporate tables are Trophy, and ultimately receiving 200 firm orders WITH ROLLS- Programme available with discounted rates for RAeS after it was announced. ROYCE HAS Reception: 7.15pm Dinner: 8.00pm Mark also spent some time talking about the the various challenges of such a concept, including Members and Corporate Partners. GONE FROM G500 and G600 family, which has proceeded the cabin environment. What’s included? successfully through flight test and will be available STRENGTH TO In summary, this was a highly informative, in 2018. STRENGTH, engaging, and inspiring lecture from a long-standing This black tie event includes a pre-dinner networking Mark mentioned Gulfstream is keen to innovate, CONTINUING Rolls-Royce customer and partner. Mark Burns reception followed by an exquisite four-course dinner having introduced improved head-up displays was presented with his Royal Aeronautical Society with fine wines and coffee. (HUDs), enhanced vision and sidesticks on the UP TO THE Fellowship certificate at the conclusion of the G500 and G600. lecture, and the event ended with a formal dinner for G650ER Enquiries to: During a lively Q&A session there were a POWERED BY invited guests. variety of exchanges and questions, some of which Gail Ward, Events Manager – Corporate & Society looked towards the future, including the concept of THE ROLLS- Braky Zewde MRAeS and Royal Aeronautical Society Supersonic business jets (SSBJs). Mark discussed ROYCE BR725 Mario Di Martino AMRAeS T +44 (0)1491 629 912 / E [email protected]

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Enquiries to: Gail Ward, Events Manager – Corporate & Society Royal Aeronautical Society T +44 (0)1491 629 912 / E [email protected] www.aerosociety.com/banquet Afterburner Society News YOUNG MEMBERS Young Persons Network Event 2017

Young members represent over a third of the Society’s membership. Their engagement is crucial to the Society’s long-term survival and growth in a rapidly changing world. The RAeS Young Persons Network (YPN) was established to improve the Society’s overall engagement with its Young members. The YPN is made up of proactive Young members who have shown an interest in increasing their involvement in the Society. They are dedicated to improving local engagement of Young members through activities, events and networking, usually in collaboration with local Branches, universities and/or industry. With growth of the YPN to 300 registered Young members, this year we were able to hold an event dedicated just to the YPN and its activities. On Friday 17 November a Young Persons the delegates, while also teaching elementary trade Delegates in the event room Network Event was held in Pegasus House at Airbus theory. The principal aim behind the exercise was to in Pegasus House, Airbus in Filton. Holding a main Society event in Bristol was give training in several key Continuous Professional Filton. a departure from the usual location in London, a Development areas: resource management, budget decision based on previous feedback from the Young planning, and trade negotiation. The attendees members that the Society needs to decentralise some remarked upon how the activity helped highlight events to other parts of the country. The purpose of the issues that exist within the world today, and in the event was to create a forum for all YPN members particular how the problem of imperfect information to meet and exchange ideas, while also motivating drives further international inequality between first and inspiring the Young members of the RAeS to and third world countries. continue to develop themselves through actively Post-icebreaker, a debate was held which tackled engaging with the Society and by taking a role in its a controversial issue affecting the UK aerospace activities. industry; summarised through the following statement: The event itself was the result of many months ‘The UK Government should only purchase aircraft of hard work between volunteers from the Young made by aerospace companies that have the design Persons Committee, and the RAeS Bristol Branch and manufacturing sites producing these aircraft YPN Representative, Kiran Ramsaroop, who took a located in Britain.’ The purpose of the debate was to leading role in the project planning and organisation. encourage critical thinking in all of the delegates, and The day was intended to be as interactive and to consider all sides of an argument before making engaging as possible, with all of the activities geared a decision. A spirited discussion took place between towards encouraging delegate participation. a panel of two teams, with convincing arguments put The day began with a motivational talk given by forth from both sides in an attempt to convince the the President of the RAeS Bristol Branch, Prof Ian audience to their side of the issue. The main points Lane, who has strong ties in both the industrial and put forth in favour of the statement were made using educational sectors. Prof Lane gave a passionate the example that the US Government sustains its own and thought-provoking presentation, in which several aerospace industry through preferential tendering important life experiences and lessons were touched of contracts to US-based aerospace companies, upon in humorous and clever ways, and ended with a and how this has benefited their long-term standing challenge to all those present to always keep pushing in the global market. Opposing the statement, the for self-improvement. It was a great start to the central arguments revolved around the ability of day, as it left everyone on a positive note, as well as industry within the UK to meet the infrastructure and outlining what behaviours and ideals are needed to be manufacturing demands for large-scale aerospace successful. projects in a cost-effective manner, with an example Following the opening presentation was a of the multi-billion pound commitments needed to particularly engaging Networking Activity, named the sustain a UK-based space agency given, and how this ‘International Trading & Negotiation Game’, which cannot be achieved by the skill level maintained within helped act as an icebreaker introduction between all the UK.

50 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 After a networking lunch, the delegates were introduced to some of the most active members of the RAeS YPN through a series of ‘Ask the Experts’ Interactive Presentations, which showcased ideas and activities from a number of diverse individuals with differing experiences across a variety of RAeS Branches. With so many proactive young individuals in the room, it is hoped that they will take away the ideas presented and pursue similar initiatives with their Branch or in their local area. The speakers and their topics included:  Declan Wilcock, Associate Research Engineer, National Composites Centre – STEM Outreach (RAeS Bedford Branch). Declan discussed how the widely successful RAeS Schools Wind Tunnel initiative originated from the Bedford Branch due in thanks to the combined effort of the YPC/YPN and how it is now used across the country to instruct and inspire students through practical aerospace experiments. could clearly be seen by the energy and enthusiasm Above and below left:  Kiran Ramsaroop, Analysis Lead, BAE Systems shown by all that attended. The interactive nature Delegates swap strategies among their teams and Naval Ships – How to Make the Most of your of the day was embraced by the attending Young negotiate trade deals with Branch (RAeS Bristol Branch). Kiran explored the members and it is a credit to the event organisers other countries during the concept of how engagement with the Society and how well the different activities complemented each Networking Activity. your local Branch changes as you progress through other. A large amount of thanks is also due to Airbus your career and that there is a no ‘correct’ way to and their generosity at hosting the event at their site. engage with the RAeS. Rather, it is down to the Due to the continued growth and successes of the individual to use the opportunities offered by the YPN, we are assessing holding another YPN Event Society whenever possible and how contributing back next year. offers its own rewards. If you are a young member interested in getting  Mustafa Kheraluwala, Manufacturing Team more involved with the society, or alternatively would Leader, Civil Aero Experimental, Rolls-Royce – like help in improving the young member engagement Young Persons Events Organisation (RAeS in your local area, please contact us at: Derby Branch). Mustafa outlined the blueprint behind [email protected] or find us on running a successful Young Person Event, using Facebook by searching ‘RAeS Young Members the examples of two events run in Derby: a Young Group’ Persons Lecture Competition and a Cool Aeronautics event. By breaking the events down into different stages, with the subsequent actions needing to be From the perspective of an attendee accomplished, it showcased how easy it is for Young members to create their own events. Opening the event was Laura Hoang, Training and Systems Design Engineer  Hania Mohiuddin, Systems Engineer, Martin- at BAE Systems, Samlesbury, followed by Professor Ian Lane who spoke of Baker Aircraft Company Ltd – Championing the his 40-year career which began at the age of 16 as an apprentice (much Society (RAeS Manchester Branch). Hania gave like myself!). The Professor’s talk also contained quotes and references from an insight into what it means to be a ‘Champion’ of films such as Spider Man and Shrek (trust me, they worked), as well as his the RAeS, and the various ways in which that can be experiences from the different roles he’s had during his career. achieved; whether through joining a local Branch or We were then divided into six groups to undertake an ice breaker activity. Specialist Group, volunteering at outreach activities, Each group represented a different country and was given an envelope that or becoming a member of the YPN. The core contained varying amounts of resources and tools. The aim was to make as message was clear; becoming more active with the much money as we could from trading between ‘countries’. It was a great RAeS allows an individual to give back to the wider activity and lots of fun. community. A debate followed this, the topic of which was: ‘The UK Government  William Li, Airport Planner, Atkins – Bringing should only purchase aircraft made by UK aerospace companies’. Arguments Your Branch into the 21st Century (RAeS for and against were given. and the voting narrowly favoured the ‘for’ side. Heathrow Branch). William presented a case study of After a networking lunch, an ‘Ask the Experts’ session proceeded. I RAeS Heathrow Branch, covering what the Branch thoroughly enjoyed the day and it went extremely quickly. It was great to meet was like, and what was done to modernise the other young people from different companies and at different stages of their Branch. This included tips and techniques on how careers. I would definitely like to attend similar events in the future and highly to create a strong online presence, and what can be recommend them to others. done to build a social media network for advertising Zoe Garstang purposes. Advanced Engineering Apprentice, BAE Systems and YPN member Overall, the day was a massive success, which

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EVENTS www.aerosociety/events LECTURES www.aerosociety/events BAY OF PLENTY least four days in advance 1 February — 18th Sir 9 February — Branch AGM (name and car registration Arthur Marshall Lecture. Air and BBQ. required) E secretary@ Battle Training Centre. AM BoscombeDownRAeS.org Stuart Atha RAF. Churchill Eurofighter BEDFORD 9 January — Nova Systems College, Storey’s Way, ARA Social Club, Manton – future symbology. Jools Lee Cambridge. 6pm. Lane, Bedford. 7pm. Marylyn and Mark Purvis. 8 March — Young People’s Wood, T +44 (0)1933 6 February — Heavy Aircraft Lecture. The HAV Airlander. 353517. Test Squadron – End of an Simon Evans, HAV, Head 10 January — Exploring era? Colin Froude. of Business Development. Mars: past, present and future. 20 February — Joe Morrall Followed by Branch Dinner at Prof John Bridges, Leicester Award Lectures. Young 8pm (by ticket, Hotel Du Vin. University. Joint lecture with Persons’ competition. 6 March — Sir Michael Bedford Civils. 6 March — Australian bush Marshall Lecture Competition. 14 February — Maximising flying. Paul Catanach. Cambridge University the value of air weapon 20 March — Future ETPS. Engineering Dept. 4pm. 6 February systems. Michael Hersey, Paul Shakespeare. Contact Jonathan Burnip Maximising the Value of Air Weapon Systems Lockheed Martin UK. for details at competition@ Weapon Systems & Technology Group Conference 14 March — Sir John BROUGH cambridgeraes.info Charnley Lecture. The role of Cottingham Parks Golf Club. 8 March — Dr Norman De simulation in support of F-35/ 7.30pm. Ben Groves, Bruyne Heritage Plaque 21 February QEC aircraft-ship integration. T +44 (0)1482 663938. unveiling. Cambridge AeroChallenge 2018 Dr Steve Hodge, BAE Systems. 10 January — Memories of University Engineering Dept. Young Persons’ Committee aeronautical quiz the Moor flight testing for the 4pm. BIRMINGHAM, Cold War. Dennis Morley, ex 27 March — Branch visit 1 March WOLVERHAMPTON AND Flight Test Engineer HSA/BAe to RAF Marham. Booking Is there a future for MRO? COSFORD Holme Upon Spalding Moor. required. National Cold War Museum, 7 February — Mission 24 April RAF Museum Cosford, Aviation Fellowship – CANBERRA Human Performance – Pilots: the Next 40 Years? Shifnal, Shropshire. 7pm. operational bush flying. Capt 13 February — Training at Chris Hughes, T +44 (0)1902 Bryan Pill. Qantas. Capt Matt Grey. 24 April 844523. 14 March — Lightning The Future of Business Aviation 18 January — Chasing Bears strike – Protection of CARDIFF Networking Event in the Phantom. Capt Nick aircraft. Prof Christopher BAMC. 7pm. Anderson, Virgin Atlantic and Jones, Lead Technologist for E [email protected] 9 May ex-RAF fighter pilot. Electromagnetics and Lightning 17 January — Engine power RAF Weapons – Past, Present and Future 15 February — Principles Strike, Military Air & Information, – Where will it come from in of aircraft ejection seat BAE Systems, BAE Systems the future? Conrad Banks, 10 May engineering. Philip Rowles, Engineering Fellow, Rolls-Royce Defence. RAeS AGM and Annual Banquet Chief Engineer, Martin-Baker. 21 February — Policing from 15 March — J D North CAMBRIDGE the air – tales of a helicop. All lectures start at 18.00hrs unless otherwise stated. Lecture. Moog Aircraft Group, 6pm. Jin-Hyun Yu, T +44 Gary Smart. Conference proceedings are available at Valiant Way, Wolverhampton. (0)1223 373129. 21 March — Tom Dalton, www.aerosociety.com/news/proceedings 18 January — Solar Orbiter Virgin Atlantic. BOSCOMBE DOWN – mission to the Sun. Kyle Lecture Theatre, MoD Palmer, Airbus Defence and CHESTER Boscombe Down. 5.15pm. Space. Lecture Theatre 2. Room 017, Beswick Building, Visitors please register at 7.30pm. University of Chester, Parkgate

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The Society would like to hear from members who are interested in standing for the Council in the 2018 elections to be held next spring. Only by having a good number of candidates from all sectors of the aviation and aerospace community can the Council benefit from a variety of backgrounds and experience. As members will be aware, the Council now concentrates on the outward facing aspects of the Society’s global activities. Indeed, as the Society becomes ever more global, it is critically important that our offerings to members, to Corporate Partners and especially to the public — indeed the whole of the aerospace sector that we serve — are of the highest quality. To lead output of the highest quality we need members of Council from every part of the aeronautical community and this is where you come in. NOMINATIONS As such, please give serious thought to whether you could serve the Society in this most important role. If FOR THE 2018 you are interested, or require further information, please visit our website at http://aerosociety.com/elections or contact Saadiya Ogeer, the Society’s Governance and Compliance Manager, on +44 (0)20 7670 4311 or RAES COUNCIL [email protected]. ELECTIONS ARE Please note that all nominations must be submitted no later than 31 January 2018 at 23.59 GMT. NOW OPEN

52 AEROSPACE / JANUARY 2018 A Russian Tu-95 Bear ‘H’ photographed from a RAF Typhoon Quick Reaction Alert aircraft (QRA) with 6 Squadron from RAF Leuchars, Scotland.. Capt Nick Anderson will describe chasing Bears in the Phantom at Cosford on 18 January. MoD/Crown copyright (2018).

Road, Chester. 7.30pm. Keith Lecture. Celebration of the jet. Group and Paul Westaway, 8 February — F1 Systems, Marconi Way, Housely, T +44 (0)151 348 Hannah Beevors, Red Arrows Director of Customer Services. aerodynamics: modelling for Rochester. 7pm. Robin Heaps, 4480. photographer. 20 March — Graphene. performance. Dr Steve Liddle, T +44 (0)1634 377973. 10 January — Space debris – 5 March — Flying for life. Tim Principal Aerodynamicist, 17 January — QEC, The an introduction to space debris Allen. Joint lecture with RIN. HAMBURG Renault Sport F1. journey back to carrier strike. for Earthlings. Dr Stephen Hochschule für Angewandte 8 March — Silver City Airways 21 February — Flying the Hobbs, Senior Lecturer, DERBY Wissenschaften Hamburg, – The first 70 years. Paul tracks. Sean Leahy, Network Centre for Autonomous Nightingale Hall, Moor Lane, Hörsaal 01.12 Berliner Tor 5 Ross, Chairman, Silver City Rail. and Cyberphysical Systems, Derby. 5.30pm. Chris Sheaf, (Neubau), 20099 Hamburg. Association. 21 March — The safety Cranfield University. Joint T +44 (0)1332 269368. 6pm. aspects of drones. Peter Stastny. lecture with IMechE. 24 January — Towards virtual, 11 January — Digitalisation in LOUGHBOROUGH self-designing aircraft. Paul aviation – flight physics in the Room U020, Brockington MUNICH CHRISTCHURCH Tucker. development of future aircraft. Building, Loughborough 5.30pm. Cobham Lecture Theatre, 21 March — Evolution in Dr Klaus Becker, Aerodynamic University. 7.30pm. Colin Moss, 1 February — Volocopter – Bournemouth University, Talbot aerodynamic design. Behrooz Policies & Strategies, EGA- T +44 (0)1509 239962. manntragender Multikopter Campus, Wallisdown. 7.30pm. Barzegar. Germany, Airbus. Joint lecture 16 January — The real story als Lufttaxi der Zukunft. Jan Roger Starling, with DGLR, VDI and HAW. of the Comet disasters. Paul Zwiener (Senior Systems E rogerstarling593@btinternet. FARNBOROUGH 22 March — Breaking the Withey, Rolls-Royce. Engineer Volocopter. com BAE Systems Park Centre, world altitude gyroplane 6 February — Graphene – 25 January — Helicopter Farnborough Aerospace record with a Magni Gyro M16. the new material for aviation. PRESTON air-to-air refuelling. Andy Centre. 7.30pm. Dr Mike Donatella Ricci, Leonardo Dr Matthieu Gresil, School Personnel and Conference Strachan, Leonardo. Philpot, Helicopters, Venice. Joint of Materials, Manchester Centre, BAE Systems, Warton. 22 February — Flight – the T +44 (0)1252 614618. lecture with DGLR, VDI and University. 7.30pm. Alan Matthews, human factor. Ashley Morgan, 16 January — Airlander HAW. 20 February — The Airlander T +44 (0)1995 61470. FAST archivist. airships. David Stewart, Hybrid airship project. 10 January — Human 22 March — Controlling Air Vehicles. HATFIELD 13 March — Rolls-Royce factors in aviation. Dr Colleen 9/11. Phil Holt. 13 February — Cody Lecture. Lindop Building, Room A166, Aero Engines: a proud heritage Butler, Senior Human Factors, Flying the Shuttleworth aircraft. University of Hertfordshire, and an exciting future. Prof Ric Specialist, HSE Laboratory. COVENTRY Paul Shakespeare, Empire Test College Lane, Hatfield. 7pm. Parker, ex-Technical Director 14 February — Branch Lecture Theatre ECG26, Pilots’ School. Maurice James, T +44 Rolls-Royce. AGM followed by Weapons Engineering & Computing 14 March — Watchkeeper (0)7958 775441. technology – the story of Building, Coventry University, UAS technology developments. 24 January — Advanced MANCHESTER BROACH. Bernard Gethings, Coventry. 7.30pm. Janet Owen, Nick Miller, Thales UK. Joint materials. Philip Irvine, 7pm. Hania Mohiuddin. BAE Systems Ordnance T +44 (0)2476 464079. lecture with IMechE and IET. Cranfield University. E [email protected] Retired. 17 January — Three- University of Surrey, Guildford. 14 February — Student 15 January — High-speed 14 March — Frank Roe dimensional printing and lecture competition. transport: evolution or Lecture. Flight development. digital technology. Kevin Smith, GLOUCESTER AND 21 March — The Queens revolution. Prof Konstantinos Peter Kosogorin, BAE Systems Consultant Global TCT. CHELTENHAM Flight. Sqn Ldr Graham Laurie. Kontis. Runway Visitors Park, Flight, Operations, Warton. 15 February — Meggitt Safran Landing Systems, Manchester Airport. 8pm. Canberra Club, Samlesbury, Lecture and Dinner. Holiday Restaurant Conference Room, HEATHROW 7 February — Digital aircraft. NOTE: this will be a ticketed Inn Coventry South, London off Down Hatherley Lane. British Airways Theatre, Paul Stephenson. Room 233, event (£5), including a buffet. Road, Ryton on Dunsmore, 7.30pm. Gary Murden, T +44 Waterside, Harmondsworth. Newton Building, Salford Coventry. (0)1452 715165. 6.15pm. For security passes University. PRESTWICK 21 March — Lanchester 16 January — Stealth attack please contact Dr Ana Pedraz, 14 March — Roy Chadwick The Aviator Suite, 1st Floor, lecture. helicopters. Jeremy Graham, E secretary.raeslhr@gmail. Lecture. The BAE Systems Terminal Building, Prestwick Chief Engineer (Ret’d), com or T +44 (0)7936 146 water bomber. Dr Michael Airport. 7.30pm. John Wragg, CRANWELL Leonardo Helicopters. 392799. West, BAE Systems Regional T +44 (0)1655 750270. Daedalus Officers’ Mess, 20 February — Delivering 11 January — Additive Aircraft. Gold Suite, The 15 January — Availability RAF Cranwell. 7.30pm. For mission critical services – manufacturing in the Deanwater Hotel, Wilmslow contracting. Sean McGovern. non-pass holders notification Partners Evening. Alex Stobo, aerospace industry. Road, Stockport. 12 February — Bush flying. of intended arrival should be Director of Operations Mission Stuart Jackson, Business Paul Catanach. made to the Branch Secretary. Critical Services Onshore – Development Manager, MEDWAY 12 March — Transatlantic 5 February — Whittle Aviation Babcock International Renishaw. Staff Restaurant, BAE journey. Eddie McCallum.

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SOUTHEND Brown. Cyril Mannion. The Royal Naval Association, 7 February — Unmanned 79 East Street, Southend-on- aviation support. Sqn Ldr Nick Sea. 8pm. Sean Corr, T +44 Harrington. (0)20 7929 3400. 7 March — Joint Air Delivery 9 January — Flying the Test and Evaluation Unit Bf109. Flt Lt Charlie Brown, (JADTEU). Sqn Ldr Nick Flying Instructor, RAF Cranwell. Harrington. Joint lecture with 13 February — Air operations the Defence Academy for 16- in Afghanistan. Wg Cdr Paul 18 year-olds. Morris (Ret’d). 13 March — The Airbus TOULOUSE E-Fan. Dr Panagiotis Symposium Room, B01, Airbus Laskaridis, Senior Lecturer, HQ/SAS, 1 rond point Maurice Centre for Propulsion Bellonte, 31707 Blagnac. Engineering, Cranfield 6pm. Contact: Pass@RAeS- University. Joint lecture with Toulouse.org for a security pass. IMechE. The Forum, Elmer 23 January — 26th Gordon Square, Southend-on-Sea. Corps Lecture. Safety aspects of the space shuttle SWINDON and the International Space The Montgomery Theatre, Station. Prof Claude Nicollier, The Defence Academy of the ESA astronaut, École United Kingdom, Joint Services Polytechnique, Fédéral de Command Staff College, Lausanne. Shrivenham. 7.30pm. New 20 February — Rolls-Royce The International Space Station photographed by an STS-134 crew member on the space shuttle attendees must provide details Mini-Lecture Competition. Endeavour on 29 May 2011. Prof Claude Nicollier will discuss the safety aspects of the space of the vehicle they will be using 20 March — Airbus wing shuttle and ISS during the 26th Gordon Corps Lecture at Toulouse on 23 January. NASA. not later than five days before moving track at Broughton, the event. Photo ID will be UK. required at the gate (Driving Licence/Passport). Advise YEOVIL Copy date attendance preferably via email Dallas Conference Room 1A, 18 January – The Prospects Brie Young Persons Lecture for the next issue to [email protected] or Leonardo Helicopters, Yeovil. for hypersonic flight, Andrew Competition. of AEROSPACE is Branch Secretary Colin Irvin, 6.30pm. David Mccallum, Neely, University of New South 15 March – F-35 ski jump T +44 (0)7740 136609. E david.mccallum@ Wales. testing, Gordon Stewart, 4 January. 10 January — Alcock and leonardocompany.com 15 February – Reggie QinetiQ.

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HONORARY FELLOWS ASSOCIATE E-ASSOCIATES MEMBERS SOCIETY OFFICERS Robert Bor Emma Caicedo Portillo James Edes Adam Dack President: ACM Sir Stephen Dalton FELLOWS Aiman Salama Gareth Dowse President-Elect: Rear Admiral Simon Henley Ravipal Singh Carlos El-Hajj Iain Boyd James Golding BOARD CHAIRMEN Shane Carmody ASSOCIATES Amal Hdayed Christina Goulter Luke Ingham Learned Society Chairman: Warwick Holmes George Albert Joshua Kitetu Air Cdre Peter Round Alistair McPhee William Archibald Edward Limbrey Membership Services Chairman: Patrick (Pat) Morris Tommaso Bonini Jack Pearce Philip Spiers Andrew Sanderson James Booth Fayaz Rasheed Professional Standards Chairman: Jaiwon Shin Peter Bowman James Richardson Prof Jonathan Cooper Nick Weston Harry Clare-Paule Matthew Scott Henry Cross James Warren DIVISION PRESIDENTS MEMBERS James Dinning Matthew Duke AFFILIATES Australia: Andrew Neely Danny Anderson James Elkins New Zealand: John MaciIree David Arden Dom Ferrett Rowan Doherty Pakistan: AM Salim Arshad Alan Carter Alexander Fuller Clare Flynn South African: Dr Glen Snedden Christopher Clarke Natalie Hale Anthony Francis William Dadley Jacob Johnson Daniel Quinlivan Anna Davanzo Gowrisangar Stephen Rutherford David Esteban Campillo Logeswaran Matt Tupman WITH REGRET Glenn Freitag Leanne McCumiskey The RAeS announces with regret the deaths of the Paul Harper Geraint Meek STUDENT AFFILIATES Rich Hawke Dominic Miskin following members: Aashutosh Mishra Syed Aun Muhammad Robert Adlard Peter Portway Baker MRAeS 92 Gary Stephenson Naqvi Matthew Fearn Vinodh Surendran Lewis Norris Timothy Gibson Anthony James Beswick MRAeS 77 William Tebby Finian Russell Ross Higgins Rafaqat Ullah Alexander Stratton Patrik Lindgren Prof Peter John Deasley FREng Affiliate 74 Deborah-Anne Unwin Niranjan Suresh David Richard Dryell CEng MRAeS 78 Samireh Vahid Christy Thevathasan Ian Whitmore James Tilke Martin Edward Hepworth IEng MRAeS 73 James Yapp Tom White Patrick Kavanagh Relton AMRAeS 100 Andrea Zilli Prof Bryan Edward Richards CEng FRAeS 79 TRUSTEE TALK During 2018, the Trustees will continue to support and facilitate budgets for the Society which reflect plans to continue to grow the key strategic initiatives identified by Council. 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1948 was a very good year – well so-so in aviation history orgive me a spot of self-indulgence this way, during the first Arab-Israeli war. However, the month but you only pass 70 once. 1948 most critical example of the use of aircraft to serve was not an especially vintage year for political ends was the Berlin Airlift that began in the aviation but there were a few notable autumn. This would be a triumph of air-delivered events, especially for the UK. logistics, which supplied Berlin’s beleaguered F population and demonstrated a timely resistance Supersonic at last to Soviet pressure. At much the same time, the US officially stated that the USSR would explode its Following the fatal crash that had killed the young first atom bomb in 1957 – a prediction valid until de Havilland, the DH108 made the first official August 1949. British supersonic flight. The year also saw the termination of the Miles M52 programme, a sorry No predictions but a bit of a wish and half-hearted attempt to take the UK into the list era of supersonics, which the Americans had already pioneered. We never did catch up! With that predictive failure in mind, my look forward from 70 is merely a list of aspirations: the arrival Mighty Viscount of carbon-neutral air travel. A sensible approach to uninhabited airliners would also be welcome. – More satisfying, the Viscount made its first flight. although the idea is technically feasible now and One of the very few successful post-war ‘Brabazon’ reason suggests that automation might reduce the civil aircraft programmes and, until the Airbus number of human-related accidents, we may still started to record significant sales, perhaps the need the likes of Sullenberger and Skiles up front most profitable British civil venture. The crash of to handle the extreme cases. THE CRASH OF an Avro Tudor on the other hand would, however While I am not a fan of human spaceflight AN AVRO TUDOR herald an end to governmental sponsorship of given the current cost of human missions, over ON THE OTHER airliner prototypes and usher in an ultimately futile the next 70 years, we should see the cost of HAND WOULD, attempt to privately develop civil aircraft. accessing space and sustaining humans in space fall significantly. In 1948, I would have to wait HOWEVER, Air safety would get better two years to see (and a bit longer to read) Dan HERALD Dare in The Eagle; but I might yet hope to see a AN END TO In general, there were a total of 14 recorded fatal cost-effective human presence in near-Earth orbit GOVERNMENTAL crashes in 1948 on a tiny amount of airline traffic, before I hand in my last Ian Allen spotters’ book. which reminds us just how much has improved over Of course in the very near term, I want to see SPONSORSHIP 70 years in terms of basic safety and reliability. a relatively benign Brexit that does not fatally OF AIRLINER Neville Shute’s book No Highway published that damage an industry which I have observed in one PROTOTYPES year anticipated the fatigue problems that would way or another for a very long time. This is perhaps later end so tragically. Britain’s hopes of capitalising the nearest I will get to an emotional appeal AND USHER IN on the Viscount lead through the Comet. as a dispassionate analyst and historian of UK AN ULTIMATELY aerospace but, having also spent nearly a decade FUTILE ATTEMPT Air power delivers the bread and working and lobbying on behalf of the industry TO PRIVATELY much else to encourage an adequate level of government support for the aerospace sector, I do not want to DEVELOP CIVIL Elsewhere in the world, the importance of airpower experience the decline of a world-class national AIRCRAFT was still manifest, and shown, even if in a limited capability.

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