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July 14, 2016 Farnborough Airshow Engine War Intensifies P&W’s geared turbofan and CFM LEAP battle to power A320s.PAGE 3

Qatar Cools on A350s Al Baker considers 777-300ERs to ﬁll gap in delivery schedule. PAGE 3

Apache Fires Brimstone MBDA completes live ﬁring trials of the direct-ﬁre missile. PAGE 4

Norsk Titanium Wins Deals Additive manufacturing company to supply major OEMs. PAGE 6 Airbus Halves A380 Production ISTAR Chief Speaks Out Airbus is making a large cut to its A380 output, innovating and investing in the A380,” he RAF’s intelligence head criticizes as the manufacturer continues to struggle with added. In an effort to defer concerns that reduction of Sentinel fleet. PAGE 8 securing additional sales for its largest aircraft. Airbus may abandon the A380, Bregier said, The company said on Tuesday that in 2018 “The A380 is here to stay.” Personal Health for Engines it will reduce production of the aircraft from Airbus currently has orders for 319 A380s. It GE Aviation applies data analyt- the current 2.5 per month to one. has delivered a total of 193, 27 of which were ics on an industrial scale. PAGE 10 “With this prudent, proactive step we delivered in 2015. This year it has handed over are establishing a new target for our indus- 14 aircraft, as of mid-July. trial planning, meeting current commercial The decision to reduce production further Airship, C-130J: Cargo Duo demand, but keeping all our options open will result in a huge challenge to keep the pro- Lockheed markets civil C-130 and to benefit from future A380 markets,” CEO gram profitable on a recurring cost basis. hybrid airship as cargo pair.PAGE 16 Fabrice Bregier said. “We are maintaining, —Jens Flottau RUAG Aims at America Updated Dornier 228 to be marketed as commuter aircraft. PAGE 18 FarnboROAR! Opinion: Embrace Drones Customers don’t care if you use a What’sW the loudest airplane in drone or a helicopter. PAGE 22 thist year’s Farnborough flying diddisplay? The F-35 of course. That’sT no surprise. But it only justjt wonwon that dubious honor from the The old-generation Boeing 727 trijet, EurofighterEurofightEurofig Typhoon. which is banned from many of the TheThe F-F-353 tripped our decibel meter world’s noise-conscious airports, atat 112 dB aass measured from the balcony hit a whopping 99 dB on take- ofof the AviatioAviationn Week Network newsroom. off and wasn’t much quieter InIn fairness, it wwas hovering, making the din on landing. Surprisingly, seemseem even loulouder.d The Typhoon, applying that put it on par with ShowNews DigitalDigit afterburnersafterburners foforr a climbing turn, hit 111 dB. the F-35. Thank Access daily ShowNews content on the On a quieter note, the Boeing 787 touched goodness the move. Go to aviationweek.com/shownews The power for just 84 dB on takeoff (76 dB on fly-bys), and 727s have today’s defense. the Boeing 737 MAX hit 90 dB on takeoff largely The technology and an almost inaudible 65 as it flew around. gone! for tomorrow’s. Visit us at Pavilion OE3. Fueled by the agility of Navtech and the pionneering spirit of Airbus, NAVBLUE is taking off.

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Reach for the skies Pratt Scoops Wizz Air A320neo Win

Editor-in-Chief uropean low-cost carrier Wizz Air has Jozsef Varadi. “If you take that horizon [to John Morris [email protected] Eplaced orders and options for up to 432 2035] from a technology perspective, then +1 860-316-8750 Pratt & Whitney PW1100G geared turbofans we believe the GTF technology is new and Managing Editor Rich Piellisch worth US$2.5 billion for its future fleet of disruptive to the market. Secondly we liked Senior Editors Airbus A321neos, representing a significant the value proposition, not just the pricing of Scot Greenan, Mike Jerram confidence booster for the U.S. engine maker. the engine but the lower fuel consumption,” Writers Angus Batey, Paul Jackson, Guy Norris, Coming on top of an earlier announce- he adds. Tony Osborne, Lara Seligman ment at the show by Germania, which chose CFM meanwhile continues to amass fur- Copy Editor the GTF for its fleet of up to 40 A320neos, ther Leap orders with several large contracts Polly Watson the Wizz Air deal bolsters Pratt’s competi- announced for both the LEAP-1A and -1B Senior Art Director & IT Manager Kirk Fetzer tive stance against the competing CFM variants as part of A320neo and 737 MAX Art Directors LEAP-1A, offsetting fears of the fallout from orders. Highlights included 200 additional Ariel Fristoe, Magdalena Long much-publicized entry-into-service issues LEAP-1As for AirAsia, which expands its Photographer Mike Vines on the A320neo earlier this year. Wizz Air, Leap engine fleet to nearly 730 engines. TAP Digital Photo Editor which selected the engines to power 110 firm Portugal also selected 83 LEAP-1As to power Fran Vines A321neos plus a further 90 held as purchase its A320neo/A321neo fleet. Air Europe also Digital Data Manager Theresa Petruso rights, will receive the first aircraft in 2019. ordered LEAP-1Bs to power 20 Boeing 737 Managing Director Additional aircraft will be delivered through MAXs, while TUI Group also finalized an Iain Blackhall [email protected] 2024, though this will be extended up to 2035 order for LEAP-1Bs to power 10 737 MAX 8s. if the airline exercises further purchase rights. CFM’s overall backlog of engines now stands U.S./CANADA ADVERTISING SALES Beth Wagner – [email protected] The extended timeline influenced the at more than 14,000, of which 11,000 are Tom Davis – [email protected] Rob Howlett – [email protected] selection of the GTF, says Wizz Air CEO LEAP variants. —Guy Norris Leah Vickers – [email protected] Tim Reed – [email protected] Richard Brown – [email protected] Greg Smith – [email protected] David Seaberg – [email protected] Miguel Ornelas –[email protected] Qatar Airways Looks at More Boeing 777-300ERs Chris Salem – [email protected] TO MAKE UP for a bus in the past few weeks INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING SALES Andrea Rossi Prudente capacity shortfall caused that allowed the airline [email protected] by delays in the Airbus to accept the aircraft Germany, Switzerland Robert Rottmeier – [email protected] A350 delivery stream, again. UK, France, Portugal, Spain, Benelux Qatar Airways is consid- By contrast, Qatar still [email protected] UK, Ireland, Middle East ering an additional order is not taking A320n- Ann Haigh – [email protected] for Boeing 777-300ERs, eos, six of which should Operations Manager CEO Akbar Al Baker told have been delivered by Erving Dockery Aviation Week. now according to the Marketing Communications Manager Elizabeth Sisk Qatar Airways cur- original schedule. “Part Printing & Distribution Management rently operates a fleet of the A320neo issues MM Print Services Limited www.mmprintservices.com of 34 777-300ERs and have been resolved,” Al ShowNews is published by Penton Media Inc., 9800 Metcalf it does not have further Baker said. The carrier Ave., Overland Park, KS 66212-2216. Also the publisher of Air Transport World, Aviation Daily, Aviation Week & Space outstanding orders for has walked away from Technology, Business & Commercial Aviation, SpeedNews, The Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker Weekly of Business Aviation and World Aerospace Database. the type. The airline was one of the 34 A320neos ShowNews at Farnborough Airshow: Chalet B14 among the group of launch customers it has on order in June, but so far has tel: +1 860-316-8750 for the 777X of which it has bought 60. not canceled commitments for further The carrier ordered a total of 80 Airbus aircraft. Issues Al Baker raised include A350s, among them 37 -1000s. It has the extended engine cooling time Chief Executive Officer so far taken delivery of eight -900s, but before start-up, vibration caused by David Kieselstein deliveries have been held up earlier this hydraulic pumps, and software issues. Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development Warren N. Bimblick year by disagreements over “build qual- Airbus says false software warnings Chief Financial Officer/Executive Vice President ity,” Al Baker said. have all but disappeared and a fix to Nicola Allais Senior Vice President & General Counsel A350 deliveries to Qatar Airways eliminate the hydraulic noise is being Andrew Schmolka have resumed now – one aircraft ar- rolled-out. Lufthansa receives the

President, Aviation Week rived in June and one each is sched- ﬁrst aircraft featuring upgraded Pratt Gregory Hamilton uled to be handed over this month and & Whitney PW1100G engines that ©Copyright 2016 by Penton Media. All rights reserved Material in this publication may not be reproduced in any in the following months. Al Baker said allow for shorter start-up times later form without permission. he has had several meetings with Air- this month. —Jens Flottau

AviationWeek.com/ShowNews | July 14, 2016 3 Suppliers Announced for TRJet 328 Production

New Turkish maximum takeoff weight of the turboprop to that of the manufacturer TRJet jet version, from 13,990 kg has announced major to 15,660 kg, giving an extra suppliers for its new 1.5 tonnes of payload. The jet version will use the P&WC regional aircraft PW306B. program that will see Other major suppliers production of updated are Liebherr Aerospace, which will provide the air versions of both the management and flight former Dornier 328 control systems, Rockwell turboprop and 328JET Collins, which will supply Pro Line Fusion avionics, and form the basis of and Heggemann Aerospace, a new Turkish airliner which will develop a com- production industry. mon landing gear for both versions of the aircraft. RJet has selected a new ver- Also announced at the Tsion of the Pratt & Whitney Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion for the TRJ328 and TRP328 integrates all flight deck show yesterday was an Canada PW127 to power the systems to help pilots more easily manage flight operations. order for five special-mis- turboprop version of the air- sion variants of the tur- craft. This has a common tur- that powered the original Dornier gearbox that produces more shaft boprop, for Singapore-based bine assembly with the PW119 model, but with a different horsepower. It will increase the Sentinel Aerospace Group.

The tests – contracts for which were Brimstone/Apache Trials Hit Targets awarded in September 2015 – follow a basic MBDA AND BOEING have completed a standard M299 launcher on the helicopter’s integration program, which will, MBDA series of launch trials of MBDA’s Brimstone stub wing. hopes, pave the way for Brimstone to become missile from an AH-64E Apache attack The Brimstones were fired from hover- the standard direct-fire weapon for Britain’s helicopter. ing, moving and maneuvering/banking atti- Eurofighter Typhoons, Apache attack heli- Data on the number of launches, target- tudes against main battle tanks and pickup copters and the Protector unmanned surveil- ing and guidance used in the UK Ministry truck targets. All of the missiles fired were lance and strike platform that will be based of Defense-funded trials, which took place fitted with telemetry payloads rather than on General Atomics’ Certified Predator B. in the Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona, last warheads, so that data could be collected for With the same weapon arming the three month, remain confidential, but company integration. platforms, the UK could benefit from “interop- officials have confirmed that the weapons “These trials validate a prior UK MOD erability between the Royal Air Force and the were guided using both the semi-active laser study contract with MBDA and Boeing that Army…and long-term cost reductions,” says and millimetric wave seekers in unison and in confirmed integration was expected to be low Andy Allen, who works on business develop- combination, with the weapon fired from the risk,” the company said. ment on Brimstone. The weapon would be taken through an additional spiral of Trial firings of MBDA’s Brimstone missile from development that would allow it to the AH-64E Apache be fired on selectable trajectories. attack helicopter have Crews would also have a number of been completed. selectable warhead modes including impact and proximity fusing. The additional capabilities would require only minor hardware and software changes. The UK Ministry of Defense has also confirmed that the latest version of the weapon, Brimstone 2, had entered front-line service on the RAF’s Panavia Tornado GR4s. —Tony Osborne

4 July 14, 2016 | AviationWeek.com/ShowNews Transformation is in the Air AEROSPACE

We are becoming Arconic in 2016 Innovation, engineered.

Alcoa Aerospace Alcoa Aerospace & Automotive Products Visit us at the Alcoa stand Alcoa Defense in Hall 4, B120 Alcoa Fastening Systems & Rings Alcoa Forgings & Extrusions www.alcoaaerospace.com Alcoa Power & Propulsion Alcoa Titanium & Engineered Products Embraer’s Saber-M60 mbraer is at Farnborough Tollendal, president of Embraer radar and Sisfron border Epromoting its Sisfron bor- subsidiary Savis, says. A chal- surveillance system are on der surveillance system, which lenge has been to look for differ- show here. includes electronic warfare, ent doctrines, depending on the UAVs, radars and communi- threat. It depends on the environ- cations to work in conjunction ment – climate, vegetation – of with the A-29 Super Tucano the border, Tollendal says. The turboprop for close air sup- pilot phase covers approximately port. Components of Sisfron, 600 km in the southwest of the such as the M20 mobile radar country. for ground surveillance, and In partnership with Sparks, the Saber M60 for anti-air- Nevada-based Sierra Nevada craft defense, are being exhib- Corp., Embraer has delivered ited here. Although Sisfron is 20 Super Tucanos that the still in a protracted pilot phase U.S. ordered, and which are to in Brazil, the company claims be transferred to Afghanistan Embraer Showcases to have signed some export forces. Six Super Tucanos slated contracts. for Lebanon are in production, Border Surveillance “The pilot phase shows we with the ﬁrst handover being have to learn a lot,” Marcus scheduled for early 2017.

Norsk Titanium Inks Mecachrome, Boeing, Thales Contracts NORSK TITANIUM AS has signed a long-term agreement to deliver finished aerospace structural titanium components produced by its patented Rapid Plasma Deposition process to current Mecachrome aerospace OEMs and their Tier-1 suppliers. The deal is the latest in a series of integrated supply chain moves designed to insert Norsk Titani- um’s disruptive RPD capacity into existing aerospace supply chains servicing the world’s aerospace manufacturers. Under the terms of the agreement Norsk Titanium Mecachrome France CEO Arnaud de Ponnat (left) and can procure finish machining, inspec- produce and test components for use Norsk Titanium CEO Warren M. Boley Jr. ink a long- tion and treatment services from Me- in spaceflight. Norsk will collaborate term agreement here. cachrome for additive manufactured with Thales to develop and produce components that replace parts current- an initial qualification lot of titanium “We are thrilled to partner with ly supplied to the aerospace industry by components this year in support of a Thales Alenia Space and to extend the Mecachrome. joint test and acceptance program for benefits of RPD from earth-based com- Norsk Titanium has also received an spaceflight. Each component has a mercial airliners all the way into outer order for titanium engineering test ar- final mass of more than 3 kg and chang- space,” said Norsk Titanium CEO War- ticles from Boeing. The order requires ing over to Rapid Plasma Deposition ren M. Boley Jr. “The space frontier is Norsk Titanium to produce titanium cuts the current part buy-to-fly ratio a great market for our titanium RPD Ti-6Al-4V additive manufactured pre- in half and reduces lead-time by six parts, since they are extremely fast to forms, and deliver them to Boeing for months over current forging processes. build, incredibly light, and can be used further testing and evaluation. Following the successful qualification in applications of significant structural A further contract signed here is process, Norsk Titanium expects to importance.” Norsk Titanium is at Hall 4, with Thales Alenia Space to develop, begin full-rate production in 2017. Booth A114.

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Sentinel’s mission seem overly optimistic. RAF ISTAR Chief Attacks “Nine is not enough,” he said. “If you look at the modus operandi of how we’ve done this before, nine is only enough to do over ‘Unimaginable’ Sentinel Cuts the sea.” The frustrating irony is that the Sentinel’s The RAF’s senior intelligence and surveillance officer launched value has not been in doubt since shortly a passionate defense of the Sentinel program yesterday, after the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government announced its cancellation in as the perennially overworked yet permanently under-threat the 2010 SDSR. During Operation Ellamy, system faces yet another period of uncertainty about its future. the UK’s contribution to the NATO campaign over Libya, the Sentinel was unique across ir Commodore Dean Andrew, com- often classified, difficult-to-explain nature the coalition in its ability to map the ever- Amander of the RAF’s ISTAR (intelli- of the ISTAR fleet’s job makes mounting a moving front line through GMTI coverage gence, surveillance, target acquisition and case to the public – and their representatives – of milling ground vehicles. Deployments to reconnaissance) force, intends to fight the a challenge. Mali, Nigeria and even mapping flooding decision – announced in last year’s Strategic “Every single capability we [in the ISTAR in southern England followed. The then Defense and Security Review (SDSR) – to Force] have is essential to saving lives,” prime minister, David Cameron, announced remove one of the five Sentinel aircraft from Andrew, a former Tornado operator, said. a reprieve to the cancellation at Farnborough service in September. His efforts are being “But because it doesn’t hover it doesn’t grab in 2014; he is known personally to have supported by Raytheon, the prime contractor the attention. I’ve dropped bombs all over requested Sentinel product during briefings. on the program, which fields a SAR/GMTI the place, but only now do I realize who told “This is still the Prime Minister’s go-to (synthetic aperture radar/ground moving me where to go. I spend all of my time stand- airplane,” Andrew says. “It’s a matter of target indicator) sensor onto a modified ing up, talking outward and upward, to try time before people go, ‘I am not going to Bombardier Global Express jet that has seen and express to people how important this accept a gap in capability.’ It’s about a stove- heavy use since its entry into service in 2007. capability is.” piped understanding here, a stovepiped “I can’t overturn [the SDSR decision],” he Focus has also been turned away from the understanding there. As the warfighter, we said, “but I know some people who can, and Sentinel by news of the UK’s confirmed order understand the whole enterprise. What I I’m going to lobby them. We need five air- for nine Boeing P-8s. The new anti-subma- can’t afford to have happen is to take an air- planes in the fleet to provide the capability. If rine aircraft will begin to be available around plane out of service, close the base, then six we don’t have five in the fleet, then the ability the time the Sentinel is presently scheduled years later put it in the base down the road. to provide that capability as regularly as we to leave service, but according to Andrew, Because if I do that I’ll lose all that experi- do will reduce. It makes no sense to me to whose responsibility includes the P-8, any ence. I think it’s unimaginable we would do do that.” thoughts that the new fleet can absorb the that [with the Sentinel].” —Angus Batey Andrew compared the SDSR decision – which also committed to remove the Sentinel from service in the 2020s – to another taken recently in Britain. “Imagine we’d just voted to leave the European Union, yet there were people out there going, ‘That was a really silly idea – we’d like to reconsider,’” he said. “It’s in the same space. Maybe [the SDSR decision] was a good idea at the time. But I’m the operator, and it’s bad Air Commodore enough when I’ve got five. The people Dean Andrew who want this capability aren’t going to [care] that I’ve only got four – they’ll still want them there. The easiest way this enterprise can continue to provide this capability to save people’s lives is to have five.” The lack of a jet at the Airshow has not helped Sentinel’s cause. But with the tiny fleet in such huge demand – two jets are deployed on Op Shader in the Middle East, one is in maintenance and the others required for training – the ISTAR force does not have one to There are not enough Sentinels to go around. spare for PR work. The complicated,

8 July 14, 2016 | AviationWeek.com/ShowNews CAN WE CARRY MORE? CAN WE FIND MORE SUBS?

CAN WE FIGHT MORE FIRES? CAN WE DETECT MORE OIL SLICKS?

CAN WE CARRY LONGER LOADS? CAN WE GIVE EARLIER WARNING?

CAN WE PROVIDE MORE DISASTER RELIEF? CAN WE DROP MORE?

CAN WE PATROL MORE BORDERS? CAN WE RESCUE MORE PEOPLE?

CAN WE AIRLIFT MORE STRETCHERS? CAN WE REFUEL MORE CHOPPERS?

C295W: DOES MORE OF EVERYTHING FOR LESS.

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Kevin McAllister, president and a broad suite of engine mainte- “50,000 aircraft will change product knowledge with CEO of GE Aviation Services. nance offerings for the commer- hands over the next decade. our rapidly growing “To my knowledge GE is the cial aviation industry with the That’s 4,300 a year. digital capabilities. This only company to invest in data ability to customize data analyt- “We can be a key partner in marriage of physics and analytics to match its industrial ics and service options for the transactions and help fleet plan- analytics is delivering scale.” needs of individual customers. ning objectives for used aircraft Investment in GE Digital, the � TrueChoice Flight Hour brings around the world.” better customer company-wide center for Big customized offerings that help TrueChoice has operational outcomes faster than implications, too. ever before.” For example, in — Kevin McAllister, president and comparing shop CEO, GE Aviation Services visit data of a par- ticular airline’s engines to the fleet, GE Aviation New Products was able to deter- A new software application mine that the air- called Flight Phase Analyzer line typically used is enabling customers who Data, will total US$1.4 billion optimize cost of ownership over higher thrust settings than most provide continuous engine this year, giving business units the entire life cycle with flex- when taking off in hot-and-high operating data to access the access to 1,100 data scientists ible risk transfer and payment conditions. This operating prac- power of GE’s Predix analytics whose job it is to help derive new options; tice was causing unnecessary platform to gain new insight data-based products. � True Choice Overhaul tailors stress to turbine blades, leading into optimizing their flight Working under the umbrella time and material workscopes to their premature replacement. operations. Predix, they make sense out of specific to shop visit objectives, Now the airline has changed its huge amounts of data and bring economic priorities and owner- procedures and the parts are The Water Wash Optimizer new insights into products and ship horizons, whether for one lasting longer. application details the sig- services. “Scale doesn’t work engine or an entire fleet; McAllister explained that nificant time-on-wing gains if you have only five people � TrueChoice Material deter- data analysis showed this was that can be achieved through [in a back room]” or farm out mines the right mix of new, used an airline-specific issue, and effective water wash and data analysis to outsiders, says and repaired parts, and helps there was no need to inspect or offers tools to optimize the McAllister. “Now we can com- determine technology upgrades replace similar parts throughout procedure for maximum fuel bine our depth of aviation prod- for airlines and MROs that the fleet. savings. uct knowledge with our rapidly enhance engine performance One size doesn’t fit all. “We growing digital capabilities. over the life cycle and support live in a world of tremendous It delivers fleet-wide and This marriage of physics and higher engine residual value; variations: The environment analytics is delivering better � TrueChoice Transitions ana- can be hot or 50° below, sandy, engine-level views of engine customer outcomes faster than lyzes a broad range of options for salty or dusty, and operations operating parameters before ever before.” changing ownership horizons, can range from long to short and after engine water wash, For GE Aviation this amounts including green time leases, flights, slow or fast climb, hot- making it easy to see the to personal healthcare for the exchanges and material buyback, and-high takeoffs. We have an amount of exhaust gas tem- 35,000 engines it has in the plus custom workscopes with abundance of data: 35,000 perature recovery achieved field. For its customers it moves shorter builds and maximum engines talking to us, as well from the procedure. It also engine care and maintenance used material. as airline operators and service provides a fuel savings sce- into the world of prediction, Different airlines and leas- shops. Lots of engines, big scale, nario planner to customize not only by fleet but engine-by- ing companies have different and lots of variation. wash procedures for maxi- engine, and even by individual cost and life cycle objectives “Analytics gives us insights mum fuel savings. components. for the engines, and these tools we wouldn’t otherwise see, and

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Unmatched Experience | World-Class Support | Exceptional Value Origami in Space n origami-inspired deploy- geostationary platforms with Aable composite structure is very large boom systems, but poised to go into space aboard of course we have to take those an Indian launch vehicle. stepping stones,” says OSS Developed by UK-based Oxford CEO Mike Lawton. Space Systems (OSS), here in Hall One product, the AstroTube, 3/A10, the extendable payload is an ultra-lightweight pay- deployment system is the ﬁrst of load-deployment boom capa- a series of innovative products ble of extending and retract- designed for the new space age. ing antennas, solar panels or Founded in September 2013, the anything desired. Scheduled award-winning start-up says an to be sent into space next origami-like folding technique is month aboard a cubesat on used to enable this new genera- India’s Polar Satellite Launch tion of deployable structures. Vehicle (PSLV), the launch Using a combination of both will set two world records for traditional and qualified pro- Lawton and his team. The Oxford Space Systems is showing its deployable composite structures here. prietary materials, OSS says its AstroTube will be the world’s products have received serious longest composite payload remarkable achievement consid- panels and larger deployable interest as they are lighter, less retractable system. Secondly, ering it takes NASA an average antennas, and has development complex and cheaper than those Lawton notes, the implementa- time of 10 years to do the same, collaboration contracts with currently available in the global tion of the AstroTube will mean according to Lawton. some of Europe’s largest satellite space industry. “Ultimately, OSS “has gone from concept to In addition to the AstroTube, builders, including Airbus. the endgame is to get onto ﬂight in less than 30 months,” a OSS is developing deployable —Greg Norris

The Vital Element in Aerospace Design Passengers might not wish to think too deeply about the ditching component of their preﬂight brief, but somebody has to. And that is likely to be Element (Hall 4/D141) – an independent company with long experience in materials and products testing. The fascinating details of constructing and ditching a scale model in a water tank will be presented in an open seminar at the Hub in Hall 3 at 11 a.m. on Thursday. The speaker is Stuart Brown, general manager of Element’s Materials Technology division at Warwick.

SULSA preparing to land Around 60% of Element’s assessment work is connected with in the water after its aerospace and usually takes place during the phases of late R&D, Royal Navy scouting sortie prototype and production. And 70% of this is undertaken in the U.S., on everything from a foreplane to a passenger seat. Element’s boast is that it “adds certainty” on behalf of its clients, Southampton Shepherds assuring them that their products are safe, compliant, fit for pur- pose and up to quality. Sailors With Sintered Aircraft And before you ask: Yes, they do also fire dead chickens at dummy windscreens. —Paul Jackson ONE OF THE world’s first totally launched from the Royal Navy’s 3-D-printed aircraft makes its ice patrol ship HMS Protector Farnborough debut this week, to assist navigation through secreted away at Hall 3/IZC21 in the Antarctic ice floes, complement- Innovation Zone. SULSA, the ing a quadcopter that was used Southampton University Laser for short-range scouting mis- Sintered Aircraft, is a UAV that sions. SULSA is controlled from can be fully assembled from its a laptop and cruises at nearly component parts to flight-ready 60 mph. Cost is no more than in just 10 min., without use of GBP7,000 (US$9,300) – cheaper Element’s test tank at Wallingford, UK, is used for measuring airliners’ tools. than an hour’s flying time by a compliance with ditching specifications. Earlier this year a SULSA was naval helicopter. —Paul Jackson

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ockheed Martin is marketing only one aircraft that could do the Brazilian rainforest. some systems and primarily the Lits LM-100J civil Hercules all the jobs we needed it to do The LMH-1 is expected to avionics are changed to reflect variant in tandem with the newly to serve our customers: the LM- enter service in 2018, the same the LM-100J’s commercial role, unveiled LMH-1 cargo carrying 100J,” says JR Pereira, president year as the LM-100J, and is a big says Orlando Carvalho, EVP of hybrid airship as part of the com- and CEO of Bravo Industries. move for Lockheed Martin in Lockheed Martin’s Aeronautics pany’s broader strategic initiative The first aircraft will be delivered more ways than one. If success- business. Although originally to grow its commercial aerospace to the Brazilian operator in the ful, the vehicle represents the first designed under FAA certification business. fourth quarter of 2018, with final generation of a planned series of standards, the flight test program The company sees the LMH-1 deliveries in 2020. progressively larger hybrid air- will clear “all the upgrades made as a well-suited running mate Lockheed’s LMH-1, a 280-ft.- ships that will culminate in the to the aircraft over the past 20 with the LM-100J commercial long hybrid airship, which is mid-2020s with 500-ton trans- years,” he adds. freighter, firm orders and letters capable of carrying 47,000 lb. ports capable of competing with As for integrating sales of the of intent for which have grown of payload and up to 19 passen- ocean-going vessels. Along with LMH-1 into campaigns for the to 25 with the sale of 10 to Bravo gers over ranges up to 1,400 nm the LM-100J, the venture also LM-100J, Carvalho says “we’d be Industries, a Brazil-based logis- at a cruise speed of 60 kt., is tar- represents Lockheed’s first sig- extremely open to those discus- tics and defense group. Bravo’s geted at much the same market. nificant foray into civil aviation sions.” Working through Hybrid Logística division, which con- The vehicle is designed to pro- since the 1980s when it refo- Enterprises, its Atlanta, Georgia- sists of Bravo Cargas and Bravo vide lower cargo transport costs cused on the defense and space based wholly owned reseller and MRO (maintenance, repair to remote areas that road and markets following disappoint- aftermarket provider, Lockheed and overhaul), will operate the current air alternatives cannot ing sales of the L-1011 TriStar Martin is securing orders and let- LM-100J for air cargo operations match. airliner. ters of intent for around 12 cargo in Brazil. “We’ve talked to oil and gas and The first LM-100J is currently airships from the mining and oil Bravo is acquiring the LM-100J mining companies. I think there’s under assembly at Lockheed and gas exploration industry. It for operations in remote and definitely a market there [for the Martin’s Marietta, Georgia, facil- also has potential sales of a fur- austere locations around Brazil. LMH-1],” says Pereira, who adds ity and is expected to make its ther 15 LM-100Js in addition to “When we examined the market that the airship offers “an envi- first flight in the first half of 2017. the current order group but sees and regional demands for our ronmentally friendly” solution to Although structurally identical orders “for at least 100 more.” logistics operations, there was the problem of cargo transport in to the military C-130J variant, —Guy Norris

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16 July 14, 2016 | AviationWeek.com/ShowNews Find out more at SSJ100RIGHTNOW.COM RUAG Pitches Reinvigorated Dornier to the U.S.

RUAG’s 228 is taking aim at the U.S. market.

Don’t call it a 228NG anymore, says the manufacturer. in Raleigh, North Carolina; a depot in the The future has now become the present. same state at Sanford; and other centers at Addison, Texas, and Carson City, Nevada. here comes a time,” says Martin fly the first of the follow-ons before the end of Noting that many previous special-mission “TBüsser, senior VP of sales and mar- this year. Passenger (with 19 seats) and cargo aircraft have been equipped with specific cus- keting at RUAG Aviation (Chalet A21), “when the markets are, naturally, in RUAG’s sights, but a tomer equipment – at unnecessary expense new generation becomes the present genera- concerted effort is also being made to expand – Büsser says RUAG is looking at options for tion.” Thus, the Dornier 228NG is dead; long the 228’s employment in special missions. standard equipment suites for both different live the Dornier 228. The U.S. is seen as a key market now that purposes and in three standards of complex- RUAG has already completed and sold the RUAG has obtained (in March) FAA certifi- ity. These packages will be installed in the start-up batch of eight “ex-228NGs” from its cation of the current 228-212 and named U.S. and can be swapped at speed through relaunched production of the modernized AMC Aviation as its regional sales and autho- the aircraft’s wide freight door. Dornier turboprop-twins and is expecting to rized service center. AMC has headquarters —Paul Jackson

Progresstech to Distribute Altair Software Russian engineering company Progresstech expertise and regional presence will help the has partnered with U.S. software special- U.S. company, which has no direct local office ist Altair to promote and distribute Altair’s in Russia, to establish the use of its products software technology and methods in Russia in the Russian and related region’s commer- and the Commonwealth of Independent cial and educational markets. States (CIS). Under the memorandum of Progresstech is known as a provider of understanding signed on July 11, the Russian engineering services to the world’s largest company will become an official reseller aircraft manufacturers. The Russian com- of Altair’s HyperWorks Suite, a computer- pany worked with Boeing on a number of aided engineering platform that is used in programs, including the 787 Dreamliner. In The Diamond Pandion aircraft design. The partnership also includes cooperation with Spirit AeroSystems it was in- lands at Farnborough. solidThinking software products and Altair’s volved in such programs as the Airbus A350, methods for lead time reduction and weight Gulfstream G280 and G650, Bombardier C optimization. Series and Learjet 85, and Mitsubishi Regional A Double Diamond “We are very happy to include Altair’s Jet. In the domestic market, it participated in solutions in our portfolio and to work with the Sukhoi Superjet 100, Kamov Ka-226 and Works Wonders their methods,” said Ekaterina Vasilieva, VP Ka-62 programs. —Maxim Pyadushkin wo versions of the popular Diamond of international cooperation for Progresstech TDA-42 light twin have been launched Group. She explained that the company at the show this week. The first, known as would include the Altair software as the Pandion (Osprey), is at Diamond’s flight-line primary tool enhancing its engineering exhibit (OE18), fitted with camera, radar and processes but mentioned the partners were satcom antenna for patrol of coastal fisher- not ready to disclose what projects the new ies. It is priced at 2.2 million euros (US$2.45 software will be used for. million), including ground station. Dr. Pietro Cervellera, managing director of Still awaiting a definitive name, the second Altair Engineering, added that Progresstech’s new DA-42 is fitted with radio-frequency and gamma-ray sensors able to “see” beneath the Dr. Pietro Cervellera, managing director of Altair ground. Applications include monitoring Engineering, and Ekaterina Vasilieva, VP of international cooperation for Progresstech Group, nuclear power stations, prospecting for raw signed the deal here at the show. materials and detecting buried ordnance. —Paul Jackson

18 July 14, 2016 | AviationWeek.com/ShowNews DHL Signs With EFW for A330P2F Conversion Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), the joint venture between ST Aerospace and Airbus Group, has signed an Airbus A330-300P2F passenger-to-freighter conversion launch contract with express and logistics company DHL Express.

nder the agreement, EFW will convert for every kilo of cargo carried within four Airbus A330-300 passenger aircraft our air network.” Geoff Kehr, SVP Global Air Fleet Management of DHL Express, and U Dr. Andreas Sperl, president and CEO of EFW, with a model of the to 26-pallet cargo configuration, capable of The A330P2F conversion pro- converted aircraft. carrying payloads up to 61 metric tonnes. The gram, launched in 2012, is a col- first aircraft will arrive at EFW’s Dresden facil- laboration between Airbus, EFW and ST Of the two variants, the larger A330-300P2F ity this month, and is scheduled for redelivery Aerospace. ST is the program and technical is suited for integrators and express carriers to DHL by the end of 2017. lead for the engineering development phase, due to its high volumetric payload capability “The A330-300P2F conversion will and is responsible for applying for EASA and with lower-density cargo. Complementing this address an important requirement within FAA Supplemental Type Certificates for the will be the A330-200P2F, which is optimized our global aviation fleet for mid-range, high- freighter conversions. Aircraft OEM Airbus for higher-density freight and longer range. volume cargo aircraft,” said Geoff Kehr, contributes to the program with data and DHL Express is EFW’s first customer for SVP, Global Air Fleet Management of DHL certification support, while EFW leads the the A330-300P2F conversion, while a launch Express. “It will bring added flexibility and industrialization phase and marketing. contract with Egyptair Cargo was secured capacity to our operations, and will further The A330P2F conversion is available in two in December 2014 for the A330-200P2F support our aims of improving fuel efficiency versions: A330-200P2F and A330-300P2F. conversion. Strata Awarded Airbus Contracts STRATA MANUFACTURING PJSC, the Abu Dhabi, UAE-based advanced composite aerostructures manufacturer that is owned by Mubadala Development Company, has been awarded two contracts to supply composite components and complete major Please join us: Hall: 2 Booth: B2 assemblies to Airbus. The combined deals, valued at more than US$1 billion, will see Strata become a source for the Airbus A320’s tailplane and A350-900’s inboard flaps. Strata CEO Badr Al Olama said, “We are proud of our longstanding partnership with Airbus and are privileged to be manufacturing components on the A330, A350 and A380. Looking ahead, and building on our latest contracts with Airbus signed today [Wednesday], we are confident in our ability Unison is the technology leader in Line Replaceable Units (LRUs). to continue strengthening our competiveness, Our products include ignition, PMGs, sensors, harnesses, tubes, growing our national workforce and playing a key role in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain’s position- ducts, air-starters, and heat exchangers. Unison serves both ing as a global aerospace hub.” original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket customers in The A350-900’s airframe is made up of all aerospace segments. 53% light composite materials. Strata will manufacture composite components, per- form assembly of them and manage the supply chain from its facility in the Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park, where it is expanding its Empower Inspire Execute capabilities to meet the growing demands of world-leading aircraft manufacturers.

AviationWeek.com/ShowNews | July 14, 2016 19 Arms Across the Baltic: Dowty to Supply Props for Antonov AN-132D Norway’s Air Force Deploys Dowty Propellers has started component deliveries of NASAMS to Poland its R408 propeller systems to equip the demonstrator for Antonov’s AN-132D twin-engine transport. Dowty Last weekend’s NATO summit produced a Propellers’ support for the AN-132D program includes few headlines, but one story from the event commissioning the propeller systems on the demonstrator has gone largely unreported. For the Warsaw aircraft, rigging of strain gauges for its ground and flight meeting security was provided, in part, by testing, and assistance during demonstration flights. The ground-based air-defense equipment and company has also signed an LoI to develop and supply personnel from the Norwegian Air Force, who the propeller electronic controller for Xi’An Aircraft Company’s twin-engine MA700 deployed NASAMS (Norwegian Advanced regional aircraft. This agreement follows earlier selection of Dowty six-blade propellers Surface to Air Missile System) teams to for its P&WC PW150C powerplants. Poland after a cross-government agreement. The number of personnel and the laydown TAI, SNC to Explore International Trainers of the NASAMS equipment – which includes Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) and Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) signed an MoU here command-and-control entities, launchers yesterday to explore opportunities in the global training market, including ground-based and radars – have not been made public. training and logistical support. The partnership addresses a broad spectrum of military But members of the NASAMS team with co- flight training needs, with combined skill sets creating tailored, total-training system solu- developer Kongsberg have revealed some tions to strict customer requirements. The agreement leverages TAI’s more than 30 years details to ShowNews. of experience as an aerospace manufacturer, and SNC’s five decades as an integrator and “The final decision [to deploy the systems] innovator in design, manufacturing, modification, certification, integration, and support was taken just a couple of weeks before of some 400 different aircraft for both military and commercial customers worldwide. the event,” says Hans Christian Hagen, VP of business development for Kongsberg’s integrated defense systems division. “That Air Europe LEAPs for New B737 MAXs actually shows the flexibility and the abil- Air Europe has ordered CFM International ity of both the Norwegian forces, and also LEAP-1B engines to power 20 Boeing 737 MAX the system.” aircraft. The engine order, announced Wednes- The equipment was transported via day, is valued at more than US$800 million at road from Norway, through Sweden. The list prices, including a maintenance agreement. NASAMS command-and-control nodes were Under the terms of the 12-year rate per flight hour linked back to higher command echelons (RPFH) service agreement CFM will guarantee in Norway, though Kongsberg declines to engine maintenance costs on a dollar-per-engine flight hour basis. Air Europa, headquartered in say by what data-link system. The different Palma de Mallorca, Spain, is a long-time CFM customer and currently operates a fleet of sites were connected via line-of-sight UHF 20 CFM56-7B-powered Boeing 737 NGs. radio links. The equipment is in the Norwegian Air Force’s inventory partially because the Gardner Aerospace Wins Airbus Contracts effector is an AMRAAM missile. NASAMS Gardner Aerospace has been appointed by Airbus to collaborate on development of the launchers can use a range of different mis- A330neo’s engine pylon. The first phase of the program will see Gardner working on eight siles without modification. Of the seven cur- development aircraft, with the first sections on track for delivery in Q3 2016. The company rent NASAMS customers, three are air forces has also won more than GBP110 million in new contracts and existing work package exten- and three land forces (the seventh is the U.S. sions from Airbus UK for wing components and subassemblies for the A320, A330 and A380 Army National Guard). for the next five years, as well as extending an A400M contract to life of program.Hall 1, Booth B50. Deliveries have been completed to six of the seven customers: The seventh order, to Qatar Signs With Boeing for 24 Apaches Oman, is currently being filled. Boeing (Chalet B6 and OE G4) continues racking up international orders for the AH-64 Apache, sign- ing a US$667.5 million Foreign Military Sales contract with Qatar for 24 AH-64E Guardians. Qatar was approved by the U.S. State Department in 2012 to buy 24 Apaches, just as the Boeing production facility in Mesa, Arizona, was transi- tioning from the AH-64D to the Apache Longbow Block III, now known as the AH-64E Guardian. Qatar joins Egypt, Greece, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates and the UK as international customers for the AH-64.

20 July 14, 2016 | AviationWeek.com/ShowNews Historic Auster Makes Farnborough Debut A 64-year-old historic Auster originally restored by the editor of Aviation Week ShowNews is appearing over the public weekend in the static display at Farnborough Airshow.

Travel to Two Continents towers of the World A veteran of the Korean War Trade Center, and to where it spotted Communist the historic airfield at positions for the British Army, the Auster has more tales to tell than many a warbird. And in its later civilian life it was well known as G-APRO, the personal mount of the former Commandant of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at The email came from Farnborough, Air Commodore John Bridges, a for- Allen Wheeler. He used it to mer British Army commute to film sets as tech- pilot, now 88 years nical advisor to such classics Heather and Adam Wankowski will bring the Auster here. old and living on the as the 1965 comedy “Those Isle of Colonsay, off Magnificent Men in Their Flying Old Rhinebeck, famous for Cole the west coast of Scotland, who Machines” and the 1966 World Palen’s World War I flying circus. went on to explain that he flew it War I drama “The Blue Max.” for more than 1,000 hr. in Korea John Bridges flies the Auster again. After Wheeler’s death in Back to the UK – Again and on its return to the UK. He 1984, the Auster was imported In late 2009, the Auster was added “Korean sorties were at several times, and, of course, he into the U.S. by John Morris, acquired by current owners 10,000 ft., flying along the demar- flew it again. Despite a gap of 57 editor-in-chief of Aviation Week Adam and Heather Wankowski of cation line using high power bin- years, he commented on a slight ShowNews. He completely restored Stowmarket, Suffolk, and thanks the aircraft and won the award for to them it has become the only Outstanding Limited Production Oshkosh prize-winner to appear AUSTER 6/6A G-APRO Classic Aircraft at the 1986 EAA at Farnborough. For the last few eì2+-2)BìO,4ì-47=ì%.36ì^ì Oshkosh convention. years it has been a regular visitor eì 9-08ì%29%6=ì Aì)-')78)6Aì Aì%7ì%2ì @ For many years G-APRO (car- to fly-ins across the UK. eì)6:)(ì-2ì ^ 61=ì8,639+,ì Aì7)6-%0ì! rying FAA registration NX370WJ The Wankowskis restored the eì Bì3ì -6ì 3113(36)ì 00)2ì!,))0)6ì%7ìO in the Experimental Exhibition Auster to pristine condition after eì Bì 32:)68)(ì83ì 978)6ì ì;-8,ì0%6+)6ì8%-0ì796*%')7 category) was the only DH Gipsy its 23 years of wear and tear in eì Bì14368)(ì83ì @@ì&=ì3,2ì366-7Aì6)+-78)6)(ì"! Major-powered Auster flying in the U.S. They also installed dual eìBì)8962)(ì83ì ì&=ì (%1ì%2(ì)%8,)6ì!%2/3;7/- America. It made many note- controls so that both Adam and worthy trips, including non-radio Heather could fly it. flights along the Hudson corri- “After it being so much of my oculars to view the North. It was change in handling: Yes, Adam dor through Manhattan, over the life, I was sorry to see the Auster very cold!” told him, larger tail surfaces were Statue of Liberty, past the twin go,” says Morris. “But it couldn’t The military logbooks for the installed in 1964 at the edict of the have gone to a more Auster alas are lost, but Bridges British Civil Aviation Authority. enthusiastic, capable has discovered his pilot records home.” and completed that history. A Nose for History Then a remarkable Curiously, despite its long his- Bridges had long treasured a thing happened. Out of tory, Bridges, Wheeler, Morris and polished copper spinner made the blue, Adam received Wankowski are the only pilots to for the Auster by his maintenance a phone call asking if have logged significant time in the crew in Korea. “It’s on my desk. ‘NX370WJ’ might have Auster since it rolled out of the But it should be on the aeroplane,” anything to do with a factory in Leicester, in the British he told the Wankowskis. Now it is, military Auster serialed Midlands, in 1952. and that’s the way the aeroplane is ‘WJ370.” Adam replied it The Wankowskis have since appearing here at the show. A younger John Morris won the award in 1986. was the very same aircraft. taken the airplane to visit Bridges —John Morris

AviationWeek.com/ShowNews | July 14, 2016 21 BY DR. FRANK LIEMANDT OPINION HELICOPTER INDUSTRY CONSULTANT, MUNICH

Helicopter Operators Must Embrace Drones This year’s Farnborough Airshow lists 93 exhibitors that are involved in some way with unmanned aerial systems or drones, while just four light rotorcraft, including an autogyro, are on display. You don’t have to be Einstein to see that the importance of UAS is going up, while that of lighter, single-engine helicopters is going down.

The two trends are not necessarily linked to each other. For ex- not even taking into consideration that there might be manned ample, the crisis in the offshore market simply has its genesis in aircraft that have to use the same airspace and should have the low oil and gas prices. And if you look at the special offshore “right of way.” Logistics companies also are pushing the FAA to “support of windparks” sector, this business is even growing. allow unmanned operations of their freighters. But of course many markets are feeling the pressure of un- But while some of these “visions” are only PR hype and at- tempts to influence authorities, one thing is clear: We already have hundreds of thousands of private drones in the air, mostly in the hands of “buy and fly” users with no understanding of aviation. They are increasingly causing trouble by interfering with public safety missions or approaching aircraft. Why? To get nice YouTube shots! Until now, there aren’t international regulations for them as drones – especially the small ones – aren’t even “aircraft” in the view of the authorities. In Europe this will change with the new basic regulation: All types of UAS operations will be strongly embedded into the laws of aviation. Accordingly, there is a “non-paper” of EASA currently circulat- ing with reasonable ideas hooked on a “concept of operation” developed by JARUS. It aims to divide the operations and neces- sary qualifications/certifications by risk categories from open to specific and certified. EASA also has taken into consideration that most of the private users are not comparable to model airplane pilots. So, the idea is to make the drone itself “secure” manned services, or have already been attacked by them. Film- through production standards that at the minimum include ing and photography by helicopters is only “a fraction” of what identification and limitation. it had been. Farming seems set to go the same way, followed The final goal is to create a “bubble,” where these toys are next by “inspection” of gas and electricity lines, especially if the operated without any conflict with manned aviation. Smart authorities ease up on their restriction that all UAS operations ideas, but of course it all will come down to the question of how be conducted in line-of-sight. to control not only the European market but also the (ab)users. The sheer dynamic of these developments is amazing. Many Meanwhile, we can only hope that the almost daily reports of of the producing companies are still somehow “mom-and-pop” drones flying close to helicopters and aircraft will diminish, but I shops but with strong investors behind them. Sometimes the doubt so. mood in this growing industry for lightweight drones seems Back to the commercial side. What is the solution for helicop- akin to a second gold rush: Regulators are fueling the flames of ter operators? “If you can’t beat them, join them.” The helicopter change by shaping a philosophy within the EU “to exploit the big operators know the uncontrolled airspace, the regulations and potential of drones and their contribution to growth and employ- (plenty) of the customers. So don’t leave this potential mar- ment.” The only things holding them back are legal and techno- ket open to new players, but start to add some drones to your logical uncertainties. helicopter fleet. Because as Dr. Siegfried Sobotta, former head No one knows where the rapid technological change will lead. of Eurocopter Germany, once said to me: “In the end we are not Some multicopter companies are claiming the “end of manned aircraft, but whatever the customer wants us to be, and only by aviation.” Amazon wants a dedicated airspace from 200-400 ft. luck and by technology are we using the airspace for this service.” exclusively for automatic UASs, with a further 100 ft. above it as So, in the years ahead, we might have only service providers a declared a no-fly zone to avoid contact with normal air traffic, left and the customers pick the tool they like: helicopters or UAVs.

22 July 14, 2016 | AviationWeek.com/ShowNews