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Premier League Is the Uk No Longer a Tier 1 Military Power? February 2019 February MICRO SPACE LAUNCH LAUNCH SPACE MICRO REVOLUTION CHINA RISING CHINA AIR SERVICES POST BREXIT? PREMIER LEAGUE PREMIER IS THE UK NO LONGER A TIER 1 POWER?MILITARY www.aerosociety.com AEROSPACE February 2019 Volume 46 Number 2 Royal Aeronautical Society Don’t forget to renew your membership subscription for 2019 Membership fees were due on the 1st January and any unpaid memberships will lapse on 31 March 2019 As per the Society’s Regulations, all How to renew: memberships will be suspended where a payment for an individual subscription has Online: Log in to your account on the Society’s not been received after three months of the website to pay at: due date. This excludes members paying their www.aerosociety.com/login annual subscriptions by Direct Debit in monthly instalments. 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Contents 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. 13 A400M photo 10 Antenna competition winners Securing Gatwick’s skies Howard Wheeldon considers the implications of the 58 The Last Word Government’s Modernising Keith Hayward looks at Nearly a month on from a 36hour shutdown that saw thousands of Defence Programme review. space missions in 2019. passengers delayed, flights cancelled at the UK’s busiest single-runway airport during the most hectic time of the year, the motivations of who was Features actually behind the ‘Gatwick drone scare of 2018’ are still a mystery. Was it Alan Warnes one or multiple drones? Eco-protesters, criminal blackmail gang or a ‘hybrid warfare’ test? There is also the uncomfortable possibility, raised by the police themselves, that there was in fact no original drone menacing the skies and it was a case of escalating false alarms as people reported official UAVs searching for the intruder. False alarms and media hysteria about ‘rogue 30 drones’ popping up everywhere and causing a kneejerk reaction is nothing 22 new. Indeed over 100 years ago, there were reports of ‘Phantom Airships’ No deal – no flights by the public in the UK and US – mystery dirigible sightings by the public. China rising Will a no-deal Brexit result in In a sense then, the identity of the perpetrators does not matter. The public A report on China’s the UK reverting to limited and media outrage over the shutdown has seen counter drone (or C-UAS) fast-growing and vibrant European traffic rights last aerospace sector, used in 1992? measures catapulted right up the priority list of the UK Government’s showcased at the recent already stuffed inbox – and visibly demonstrated (luckily without loss Zhuhai Air Show. 34 A question of of life) the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure to this technology. For psychology Lockheed Martin Lockheed The implications of EASA’s defence planners, security experts and airports this has been a wake-up new rules on pilot mental call to prepare and defend against a cheap, yet difficult to counter, form fitness. of air attack. What was an asymmetric weapon used by ISIS in Iraq and Mark Harkin Syria, armed drones in radical groups hands have the potential to carry out precision strikes – as has been seen in Venezuela and most recently Yemen. The drone era is now with us. 26 Tim Robinson, Editor-in-Chief 38 Digital data – the threats [email protected] An increased reliance on Electric pioneer digital systems may also How a Britten-Norman pose a safety and security Islander is to be converted to risk for aerospace and provide the world’s first NEWS IN BRIEF aviation. electric aircraft passenger- Editor-in-Chief Editorial Office Printed by Buxton Press Limited, carrying flights. 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