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D A Y 1 AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY / AIR TRANSPORT WORLD / SPEEDNEWS February 16, 2016 Singapore Airshow U.S. Has Largest Presence 140 American exhibitors under- score importance of show. PAGE 4 ST Aero’s New Technologies UAVs, virtual reality cockpit training and airline seats. PAGE 6 More for Aerospace Here Singapore invests billions to support aerospace needs. PAGE 12 Rolls Rocks in Singapore Company is developing new The Republic of Korea’s Black Eagles jet aerobatic team are the star turn at this year’s Singapore Airshow, Trent airline engines here. PAGE 16 flying KAI T-50 training aircraft. They are seen here looping over the Changhi exhibition site. GE Boosts Singapore MRO Will invest US$110 million for latest engine repair facilities. PAGE 18 P&W Opens Singapore Plant Pratt & Whitney officially opened its first man- The new plant is only the second in the Business Jet Hub Grows ufacturing facility in Singapore yesterday to world that makes hybrid metallic blades for Singapore develops a regional hub make fan blades and other key components the GTF engine. Page 14 for business aviation. PAGES 46-50 for the PurePower Geared Turbofan engines Separately, just one month into his new role that power the Airbus A320neo, Bombardier as president of Pratt & Whitney, Bob Leduc Opinion: U.S./Asia-Pacific C Series, Mitsubishi Regional Jet and Embraer told Aviation Week he is determined to “set E2 regional airliner. The 180,000-sq-ft facil- the record straight” with airlines over plans Marcus Jadotte, U.S. Assistant ity, at Seletar Aerospace Park, is part of Pratt to improve start times on the company’s Secretary of Commerce. PAGE 70 & Whitney’s US$110 million investment at PW1100G flagship geared turbofan on the that location. Airbus A320neo. AESA Radar for Eurofighter The first, fitted to a test aircraft, was unveiled yesterday. PAGE 52 MOBILE NEWS ACCESS: Get the Latest Singapore News and Insight Online Visit AviaitonWeek.com/Singapore and receive the latest news and insight right on your mobile device, Cutting the ribbon were (l to r) Danny Di Perna, senior vice president, Operations for Pratt & Whitney; Bob Leduc, president, Pratt & Whitney; Mr. S Iswaran, Singapore Minister of Trade and Industry; Dave Hess, UTC Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer for Aerospace. Ingenuity Radical improvements require radical innovation. That’s why, in our efforts to make the world’s leanest, most economical aircraft, we didn’t just in Flight. tweak – we reinvented. Every element of the C Series is custom-designed and purpose-built, resulting in a jet fleet that offers a 15% cash operating cost advantage, a peerless environmental scorecard and transcontinental range. If you want the most efficient aircraft in the skies, opt for the one C Series that’s been built from the ground up. Bombardier, C Series, and the Evolution of Mobility, are trademarks of Bombardier Inc. or its subsidiaries. ©2016 Bombardier Inc. All rights reserved. Editor-in-Chief John Morris [email protected] +1 860-316-8750 Senior Editors Scot Greenan, Mike Jerram Writers Paul Jackson, Aaron Karp, Guy Norris, Rich Piellisch, Bill Sweetman Copy Editor Polly Watson Senior Art Director & IT Manager Kirk Fetzer Art Director Ariel Fristoe Photographer Mike Vines Digital Photo Editor Fran Vines Digital Data Manager Theresa Petruso Managing Director Iain Blackhall [email protected] U.S./CANADA ADVERTISING SALES Beth Wagner – [email protected] Tom Davis – [email protected] Rob Howlett – [email protected] Leah Vickers – [email protected] Tim Reed – [email protected] Richard Brown – [email protected] Hands around the world: Marking their cooperation on this year’s show are (l to r) Tan Kong Hwee, director of Greg Smith – [email protected] transport engineering at Singapore’s Economic Development Board; Benjamin Dubertret, France’s ambassador to David Seaberg – [email protected] Singapore; and Leck Chet Lam, managing director of organizer Experia Events. Miguel Ornelas –[email protected] Chris Salem – [email protected] INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING SALES Andrea Rossi Prudente [email protected] Singapore Asserts World Presence Germany, Switzerland Robert Rottmeier – [email protected] rganizers of Singapore Airshow 2016 with EDB, the Singapore Economic France, Portugal, Spain, Benelux [email protected] Otrumpeted the increasing importance Development Board. With resultant United Kingdom, Ireland of their event and the city-state that hosts demand for aircraft, “OEMs need to diver- Michael Elmes – [email protected] it as a powerful player on the world aero- sify their supply chains and shift their sup- Ann Haigh – [email protected] space stage. ply chains much closer to the customers.” Operations Manager Erving Dockery Since assuming its current identity in That means opportunity for more and Marketing Communications Manager 2008, the biannual Singapore Airshow “has deeper activity here in Singapore, he said, Elizabeth Sisk cemented its position as Asia’s largest and noting that Singapore already accounts for Printing & Distribution Management MM Print Services Limited one of the world’s largest aerospace and some 10% of world MRO activity. www.mmprintservices.com defense shows,” said Leck Chet Lam, man- “We are punching above our weight,” ShowNews is published by Penton Media Inc., 9800 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS 66212-2216. Also the publisher aging director of organizer Experia Events. Tan said. of Air Transport World, Aviation Daily, Aviation Week & Space “The top 65 global aerospace companies France’s ambassador to Singapore, Technology, Business & Commercial Aviation, SpeedNews, The Weekly of Business Aviation and World Aerospace Database. are here,” Leck said at a media briefing Benjamin Dubertret, also spoke at the ShowNews at Singapore Airshow: Chalet CS40 on Sunday morning, and the show itself Sunday briefing – France is the “featured tel: +1 860-316-8750, Singapore +65 6821 2034 has been organized to embody not just country” at this year’s show. an exhibition but as a venue for top-level “The French Pavilion will be the largest conferences examining the future of global we’ve ever had at the Singapore Airshow,” Chief Executive Officer aviation. Dubertret said. He mentioned that the David Kieselstein “Our business forums are meant for cre- Airbus A350XWB, one of the featured air- Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development Warren N. Bimblick ating real business opportunities,” he said. craft at this year’s flight display, has already Chief Financial Officer/Executive Vice President “Asia-Pacific is where the action is.” As been ordered by 13 airlines. GIFAS, the Nicola Allais well as the industry’s top executives, stu- French aerospace industry association, is Senior Vice President & General Counsel Andrew Schmolka dents and young working people are being at Booth F22 (Story: Page 68). courted. “We want to inculcate interest Meanwhile, in view of the massive expan- President, Aviation Week Gregory Hamilton early,” Leck said. sion of the international airport at Changi, ©Copyright 2016 by Penton Media. All rights reserved. ‘Traffic growth is going to be phenomenal what about the next Singapore Airshow? Material in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without permission. in this part of the world,” said Tan Kong According to Experia’s Leck, “We’ll still be Hwee, director of transport engineering here in 2018.” —Rich Piellisch AviationWeek.com/ShowNews | February 16, 2016 3 U.S. Boasts Largest International Presence It’s the biggest here by far, as 140 American exhibitors Harris Corp. (Booth CS22), which has a bevy of orders account for nearly 30% of the show’s total indoor worth more than US$1 exhibit space (upward of 130,000 sq. ft. for the U.S. billion for tactical radios, companies alone). electronic and expedition- ary warfare equipment and he size of the American contingent attract real business prospects engineering services, and “Tis a strong indicator of how impor- and customers. The steady radars; tant the region is to the U.S. aerospace growth and diversification Allied Wire & Cable (Booth and defense business, and how interested of the show speaks for itself,” R100d), “known to have the countries in the region are to work with said Kallman Worldwide pres- Tom Kallman largest mil-spec, shipboard U.S. companies to further their security ident and CEO Tom Kallman. and UL/CSA electrical wire and economic interests,” says organizer “As the organizer of the U.S and cable stocking facility Kallman Worldwide. International Pavilion at Singapore since in the world”; Kallman itself works closely with the U.S. 2008, our team is proud to help our exhibi- Churchill Navigation (Booth R80), which is Departments of Commerce and Defense, tors capitalize on this influential interna- showing ION, a new high-definition digital and the Washington, D.C.-based Aerospace tional business opportunity to grow their video recorder; Industries Association. As a result, the U.S. share of the marketplace, and strengthen Technology and Wesco Aircraft (Booth International Pavilion is this week’s des- our nation’s trade and investment partner- R96), with a new embodiment of MRO ser- tination, the company says, “for buyers ships in the region,” Kallman said. vice bulletins covering Airbus, Boeing and looking for an efficient way to meet a criti- He noted that this year’s edition of the Embraer aircraft; and cal mass of U.S. suppliers, and an on-site Singapore Airshow is the first major indus- Shur-Lok (Booth R96), a unit of Precision business hub for U.S. exhibitors looking try event in the region since the signing Castparts, promoting the Lockwireless to maximize their exposure and impact at this past October of the Trans-Pacific B-Nut as a “game-changing” fluid cou- the event.” Partnership (TPP), a trade, investment and pling, as well as a new blind tacking rivet “When U.S.