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AviationIssue 12 • 2010 H H: KEVIN P After Concorde, a supersonic civilian airliner is still many years away, but considerable research is being PHOTOGRA 12 done towards a supersonic business jet (SSBJ) IN SHORT INDUSTRY Quote Unquote 6 Cover Story 34 Special Mission FIRST Specialised & Amphibious 9 Switching Roles SNAPSHOTS FLY FASTER THAN SOUND 22 2010 DIPLOMACY The new supersonic busniess 15 Indo-French jets will have technologies that OEM Enhanced Bilateral Ties can be translanted into larger 28 Interview ‘We’re putting entirely new CIVIL airlines someday. manufacturing lines for the next 16 Regional Aviation level of AESA development’ A Booming Market HALL OF faME 33 Jacqueline Auriol MILitaRY • Industry 19 SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION REGULAR DEPARTMENTS US Aerospace Majors News Flies. We Gather Intelligence. Every Month. From India. 5 A Word from Editor RS. 75.00 (INDIA-BASED BUYER ONLY) BUYER (INDIA-BASED 75.00 RS. 26 Procurement Aviationwww.spsaviation.net DECEMBER • 2010 13th Year of Publication 10 NewsWithViews Strengthening Strategic completed Horizons PAGE 12 – Paramount Airways to resume operations 30 Interview Supersonic – Predatory Airfares ‘IAF is going in for a massive Sarkozy’s Optimism for India Regional Aviation upgradation of its airfield and Classics Airliners 37 NewsDigest US Aerospace Majors V helipad infrastructure’ Snapshots 2010 C-17 Globemaster in the IAF LastWord RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008/24199 40 31 Interview SP's Aviation cover 12-10.indd 1 09/12/10 11:29 AM Let Go ‘F/A-18 Super Hornet offers advanced capabilities to IAF’ Cover Image: 32 Interview The supersonic jets will enable executives to reach NEXT ISSUE: ‘Super Hornet will inject advanced distant destinations far faster than speed of sound. 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FITTED WITH PRATT & WHITNEY JT8D-219 triguing slogan which British Airways used This amounts to a mere Mach .005 faster than the Citation TURBOFANS, AERION IS to attract well-heeled passengers during the X. Does this matter? It does, if only to wrest the title of the PLANNING 8-PASSENGER JET heyday of Concorde. It meant something. Con- world’s fastest from Cessna. But Cessna has already de- WITH A MAXIMUM CRUISE SPEED OF MACH 1.6 corde, the world’s only successful supersonic clared its determination to regain the crown. airliner, needed just three hours 47 minutes What limits the quest for ever greater speeds? Is it the so- to fly more than 4,000 nm from London to Miami with 70 called sound barrier? An aircraft’s sound radiates outward Apassengers aboard. This was enough to outrace the rota- in all directions as pressure waves transmitted though the tion of the earth, and the travellers reached Miami at a local air. As the plane approaches the speed of sound it catches up time earlier than at which their flight had left London.