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2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 3 Global View Just a Country Airfield By Owen Zupp

It is always worth advancing with from Canada to South Africa. The modern day pilots of these seek to grab the last rays of light one eye cast over one’s shoulder. As you wander about the vintage machines offer their expert and skip through the sky one last Whether conducting a flight airfield, some original barracks insights and then it’s time for time. Seated silently where those on a sunny day and checking and buildings still remain while another graceful sweep of the sky pioneers once walked, a Pitts stall whether those clouds are closing more modern memorials provide by another graceful set of wings. turns overhead and an RV10 closes in behind, or forging a new a tribute to those that have gone Back at sea level there are the throttle as the ‘piano keys’ frontier and choosing to respect before. It is a scene repeated at active workshops to view from pass beneath. They are new sounds the lessons of the past. Hindsight various corners of the globe at the gallery, other veteran aircraft being sung by new aircraft in a new is not merely 20/20 vision, it is small country airfields. Almost to admire and walls and walls of world, saluting the roar of those a building block provided by forgotten today, they were once photographs and tales. Many of aircraft that have gone before. those that have gone before. pivotal facilities in a world at war. the specific skills required to keep Aircraft and airmen are always These building blocks can And should you opt to explore a these aircraft aloft are passed down well advised to build upon those take many forms; from air crash little further, you’ll undoubtedly from engineer to engineer; no lessons already learned. The investigations to a wise old pilot’s discover some old foundations or longer taught in technical colleges nostalgia of air shows can bring words of warning in the ‘back bar’. a patch of hardstand concealed or your regular hangar. It is a those lessons alive through both Regardless of the means of delivery, amongst the grass. Yet in this pleasure to watch true tradesman at men and machines of a bygone credible, respected knowledge digital age, this country town still work, preserving and conserving, time and all the grace that comes is worth its weight in gold and has something very special to offer while the world outside is one with them. And then, once the yet it is so often provided free of and some lessons from yesteryear of ‘new and improved’ models excitement has passed and the charge to those that possess the still to heed; for it is home to a and a throw-away mindset. day is nearly done, find a quiet patience to pause, look and listen. very special aviation museum. Then the sound of a Merlin corner and sit down amongst Recently I walked away from It is special because it is a engine catches the ear and all the grass. If you listen ever so the computer keyboard, files and living, breathing museum. The heads tilt skyward, shielding the carefully you might hear the wind manuals that are the life-blood of aircraft still fly and the words of sun in an informal salute. While passing through the wires of a my writing. With my family, we veterans are there for all to see modern aviation is dominated biplane, or catch a whisper from drove through along rolling ridges upon its walls and through its by fuel-efficient twin turbo- those excited youths who were and sun-struck Canola fields until oral histories. However, it is on fans, the air show gives the sky valiant airmen in darker days. we came upon a small country the flying days that some real personality; a face and a heart- Sit back, forget the world as it is township. At first glance, it offered magic happens. Those wondrous beat. Graceful silhouettes and and take in what it once was. At the usual sights of a rural setting; aeroplanes that flew in support magical sounds intermingle with a humble country airfield, such a livestock, harvesters and main of the Commonwealth’s freedom the occasional cloud and the dream is still within your reach. streets that are wide enough to across the years come to life and lightest of breezes. And yet even turn a bullock-team. But drive a fill the skies with sounds and sights these majestic aircraft are merely Owen Zupp has over 16 000 hours of little through the town and there’s that are now so rarely witnessed. inert metal without the people varied experience having first flown as a more; so very much more. Between the dashing fly past of behind them. From those veterans commercial pilot in 1987. His background A few kilometres out of town a Spitfire, or the gentle roll of of yesteryear to the professionals includes charter work, flight instruction and ferry flights. Serving as a Chief Pilot, and over the railway line lies a Gloster Meteor, the words of of today, it is the people and their Chief Flying Instructor and an Approved Temora Airport. In the dark days of veterans are there to be heard. passion that breathe the life into Test Officer rounded off his time in General Aviation before joining Ansett World War Two this airfield was the Their voices have weakened ever these wonderful machines. Australia in 1994 as a First Officer on thriving home to No.10 Elementary so slightly with the passage of And when the display has the 737. Flying Training School (EFTS). It time, but their memories are still finished and the Merlin’s sigh is He has a Masters Degree in Aviation Management. His writings on aviation was here that many of the Empire’s crystal clear as they are released replaced by the chug of the tractor have been published both in Australia pilots of that conflict first took to once again through the loud- putting the aircraft to bed, there are and abroad. Owen won the Australian National Aviation Press Club’s Aviation the sky and earned their wings in speakers overhead. Men and still special moments to be found. Technical Story of the Year award in 2006. the timeless deHavilland Tiger women who served selflessly in As the sun sits lower and the breeze In 2007 his first book, Down to Earth, Moth. It was a training scheme a very different time share their flicks the top of the blades of the was published and traces the combat experiences of a WWII RAF fighter pilot. that spanned the Commonwealth, insights with the gathered crowd. long grass, a few keen airmen

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and upturned exhaust for SAM It was in this town that Dad about the din after the turbo-prop had Flying in Africa avoidance and the Lynx with it’s would often allow me accompany landed and subsequent investigating twin Browning’s mounted above the him to his daily Operations HQ. revealed that the engines were by Richard Browne cockpit between the wings. I had it I would be allowed to watch the reversing. This had me confused until all down just as it was in real life. aerodrome proceedings where I one of the pilots, a real gentleman I’d sit on the garden wall became familiar with some of the named Derryl Boast explained and watch the aircraft depart on local farmers who owned aeroplanes. that it was only the propellers that a mission and then observe them Jimmy Aitken was one; a guy named were reversing and not the engines returning, the familiar whine of the Fennel was another. Jimmy’s name changing direction of turn. I’m sure Allouettes, which l thought sounded sticks because he was so friendly and I accepted this explanation despite more like a metallic staccato ring I was allowed to clamber all over thinking he was pulling my leg. than anything else. I loved them his machine. One day he took me in He was to help me on numerous and it would fill me with incredible it and he made me look outside the occasions at fixing my motorbike; l pride that they were ‘mine’. window while the wheels were being thought he was great as were the rest One day, I can’t say exactly when extended. I was completely bowled of the pilots at this company called as I was young and all the seasons over with this mechanical marvel and Barair. I owe a great deal to these seemed like one mixed-up event of couldn’t wait to relate the story to peers, they not only allowed me to playing with Tonka toys in the quarry my folks. Looking back now, it was work amongst them but they also or riding my go-kart, an Allouette single engine and must have been carried my sister’s coffin at a hastily came in quite close then hovered a Cessna high-wing retractable. arranged service in Windhoek. over the house to eventually set itself I was also introduced to the Dad would only allow me down on the lawn at the back. In “Buffalo”. A monstrous aircraft with forward to look at the aircraft doing so it knocked over a pottery two massive engines and propellers when the guests were gone. He jar that adorned the piano. I’m not to boot. I still have a photo of the was ever still the military officer Getting sure why this made an impression on Buffalo somewhere, customary and respect was foremost. me; perhaps it was because I’d never nose down and approaching I remember the humming of Started been close enough to the machines to the runway. I recall being quite the instruments in the cockpit, feel the actual power under its rotors. concerned with it because it seemed the big lever labelled FLAP, I have just completed a wonderful Anyway the crew alighted, a pilot to be off-line with the runway and the blades changing pitch with book written by Peter Petter-Bowyer and tech, and strolled across to see I was stressed it would land on increasing RPM. I knew all the called ‘Winds of Destruction’. if there was anything Mom needed the grass. Again, looking back, I registrations, it was an obsession. It relates to his involvement in and if everything was ok. Dad spent must have had a perception error From then on it was written, the Rhodesian Air Force and many weeks in the bush and they as I was standing somewhat off the my life’s future pages while still how he got into aviation and his would check up on us frequently, runways edge. Needless to say the blank had been indelibly etched development along the way. although not in a helicopter. They pilot did his thing and the aeroplane with aviation ink. I now enjoy I found it quite a tug at the old had a pot of tea and some biscuits, touched down on the tarmac. a lofty perch because of these heart because, aside from the fact homemade of course due to When I saw my first Hawker influences, human and machine, that it was also my country of birth, sanctions, and then set off again Hunter I was in awe, then came not a day goes by when I look out it was probably he, and others, blowing everything over once more. a Canberra and I figured life was the window at the most glorious of who had indirectly influenced It was so exciting and right never going to get better than this, all views with thanks and grace. my life’s path and career choice. there was probably the most how could it possibly? While I never Little did I realise that in a few Remembering how it all began, decisive moment of my short enjoyed the freedom of interacting short years, I’d be the one flying when people ask me, I always give life, I was going to become a with these two types, I saw enough that Kingair and the Citation for the same answer. When you are a Pilot. I didn’t have a lending as to of them in the air to realize my Barair and there Dad would be young boy, it’s a fireman, policeman the discipline yet, helicopters or initial thoughts of becoming a standing, waiting to meet me. I was or a pilot. I can’t remember it fixed-wing. They all seemed the pilot were totally justified. so proud and wanted them to be as being any other choices really and same to me and if it could fly, I Our move to South Africa well. I guess it must have panned subsequently an aviator I became. wanted to be the one to operate it. placed us on a farm in the Eastern out alright because my bars and I was raised on a farm and the I was sent off to school in a Transvaal and it was here that Dad wings have taken place next to the first house I ever lived in was on an separate town from where my folks built a 1000m airstrip capable of line of military achievements of airfield, in particular a military base. were eventually living. During those carrying Kingair and Cessna Citations each generation of my family. It was there that as a youngster, I years the roads were too dangerous with ease. These two aircraft would How does one qualify that used to move around the aircraft and to drive. Consequently I and my ferry company executives to the you have made the correct career make friends with the personnel. sisters were flown between the two farm and it’s several guest houses choice and are happy in your I suppose being a child I wasn’t towns in a Beechcraft Baron and, for their weekends filled with trout daily remuneration strive? I guess considered a security threat, unlike get this, I still remember the pilot’s fishing and relaxed surroundings. for me, it’s based on two things. nowadays, and so I was left to name – Chris. I don’t know what his I would always accompany Dad Firstly I simply could not imagine climb aboard Allouettes, Cessna surname was, that was irrelevant, the to the hangar to watch these machines doing anything else and second, 337’s or Lynx as they were called fact that I got to fly was paramount. perform their graceful arrivals. I most aviators I know, upon leaving and also the odd DC3 or “Dak”. It was indeed the finest aircraft knew exactly where to look for them, work take up a hobby in flying or Drawing these aircraft came I’d ever seen, it smelt of leather the same hills they’d always appear involve themselves in private flying. easily to me and I was very and I had to walk on the wing, out from, where they’d lower their Simply put, we cannot stay away. conscious of every detail such as which seemed utterly important landing gear and the white dust they’d I have never heard my accountant, the Allouette having dust screens from a young lads social stature. kick up in swirls. I was confused lawyer or doctor mates say that. •

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Airline News

Fastjet receive their Foreign Operator Permit from the SA Department of Transport Ed Winter, Chief Executive Officer of fastjet announced that the company have received thier Foreign Operator Permit from the South African Department of have a very positive effect on the load factors for the month grew Transport. This meant that the final critical trade, commercial and tourism from 68% to 78%, with yield per administrative hurdle has been industries between South Africa seat also growing substantially. overcome so they were confident and Tanzania.” fastjet continues to Also as previously announced, that the important and popular grow in popularity, performance in June fastjet carried its 200,000th Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg and revenue. As reported recently, paying passenger including infants. route would be on sale soon. June revenue in Tanzania exceeded Ed added – “We believe we are “We expect this to be a $2.2m, which is a 22% increase well on the way to becoming the particularly popular route, due to the on the previous month. Fastjet first pan African low cost carrier." • fact that South African Airways has had a monopoly on this route for far too long. We are very keen to offer substantially more affordable fares to SA Express Airways expand amid customers and further stimulate the much excitement as they launch potential traffic between these two Ed Winter, Chief Executive key African cities, which can only Officer of fastjet Durban – Harare service Proceedings on 28th June airside to see the new aircraft in its commenced with a wonderful splendid beach livery which was dance performance by Zulu dancers impressive. SAX special guests clad in South African flags. boarded the CRJ 200 52 seater International Flight We then adjourned to the SAA and the excitement was massive as lounge for the opening address by SZ NHN left bound for Harare. Clearances the SAX CEO Inati Ntshangha. Up We managed to have a chat next was MEC Mike Mayabhukulu to Minister Gigaba and he is very Africa’s aircraft handling and for a provincial overview and positive about SAX and SAA clearance company planning perspective followed by stating that he would like SAA the Ethekwini mayor James Sithole. to end up with some A380s. Minister or Public Enterprise, Mr Inati Ntshanga too was very Malusi Gigaba gave a good summary excited about the significance of of exactly what this new route means this mini hub at Durban to SAX to the country and to the province operations and stated that there in terms of trade and economic are further expansion routes using expansion and employment creation Durban as a mini hub which nationally and in the Kzn region. are being looked at this time. SAX invited guests were then For more on SAX invited into the international terminal see www.flyexpress.aero

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by checking in online, via a mobile The baggage machine prints a checked in more than 640,000 pieces Airline News device or at a check-in machine self-adhesive luggage tag, which of luggage via the machines. within 23 hours before departure can can be attached to the bags easily. simply make their way to one of the The luggage is then transported The new baggage machine baggage machines and send their by the machine to the airport’s locations at a glance luggage on its journey themselves conveyor belts and the passenger Frankfurt: 16 baggage machines, Simply drop off without having to queue. Customers receives a print-out of their receipt. 8 in departure hall B, 8 in can then pass directly through This service was tested in departure hall A (Terminal 1) your bags yourself security and go to their gate. Munich and Frankfurt over a number Munich: 19 baggage machines, 13 39 baggage machines of months last year. Due to the at the south and 6 at the north side Here’s how it works: positive feedback from customers entrances (Terminal 2 Departures) at Frankfurt, Munich To drop off luggage, it is placed and the high level of use, this service Hamburg: 4 baggage machines and Hamburg airports on the belt and the barcode printed has now been expanded. To date, at the end of check-in rows on the boarding pass is scanned. Lufthansa passengers have already 7 and 8 (Terminal 2). • Lufthansa is investing in innovative technologies that provide greater comfort for passengers. Just in time for the summer travelling season, Naikuni feted for ‘contribution to air transport business’ passengers at Frankfurt, Munich Kenya Airways’ Chief Executive an individual who has made a panel, which comprises highly- and Hamburg airports can now Officer, Dr. Titus Naikuni, has lasting strategic contribution to the respected industry professionals take advantage of the 39 baggage been recognized in the prestigious air transport business, during this including analysts and former chief machines and drop off their luggage Airline Strategy Awards 2013. year’s edition of the awards that executives, noted: “During his themselves. Passengers who have Dr Naikuni received the ‘Airline were held in London during July. 10 years at the helm, Dr. Naikuni already received their boarding pass Business Award’, which recognizes In the citation, the judging has steered Kenya Airways on to

Keith Williams, British Airways CEO, British Airways takes Eric Schulz, Roll-Royce President Civil Large Engines, Fabrice Brégier, delivery of its first Airbus President and CEO and other of twelve Airbus A380s senior executives, BA’s first A380 is being flown to the UK carrier’s British Airways (BA) has become the home base at London Heathrow tenth operator to receive an Airbus where the cabin is being unveiled. A380 after taking delivery of the first British Airways’ chief executive of 12 aircraft on order. BA is the first Keith Williams said: “We’re delighted UK operator of the A380 and will to be the first UK airline taking delivery start to deploy its new flagship aircraft of the A380. It is a great aircraft that on routes from London Heathrow has been developed with huge amounts to Los Angeles and Hong Kong. of British engineering ingenuity and After a handover ceremony at we believe it will prove very popular Airbus’ delivery centre in Toulouse with with our customers when it starts

10 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 a profitable and stable growth whose support has contributed Air Namibia to path and established it as one to this recognition,” the Kenya introduce Airbus of Africa’s leading airlines.” Airways CEO added. Among “During the course of his past winners of the ‘Airline A330-200 later this year tenure, revenue has more than Business Award’ are: Akbar Al From the 1st of October this year trebled to $1.2 billion, passenger Baker, the CEO of Qatar Airways Air Namibia will be introducing a numbers have jumped to 3.6 (2012) and Tim Clark, the CEO new Airbus A330-200 aircraft to million and the airline’s fleet has of Emirates Airline (2011). its operation, which will operate doubled to 42. Kenya Airways Other individuals recognized Windhoek – Frankfurt daily service. has totally revamped its fleet and in this year’s Airline Strategy The new A330 will replace current become the first carrier in the Awards included: James Hogan, A340 service. The airline’s A330 region to join a global alliance, the CEO of Etihad Airways will be configured in 30 Business as well as a leading beacon of in the Executive Leadership Class and 214 Economy Class seats. private enterprise in a region category; Carolyn McCall, the The airline concluded that this where state ownership remains the CEO of Easyjet in the Low planned Airbus A330 operation norm,” the judges added in part. Cost Leadership category and would remain subject to change. • Speaking after receiving Tewolde Gebremariam, the news of the recognition, Dr. CEO of Ethiopian Airlines in Naikuni said that it was a great the Regional Leadership Award honour to be feted by colleagues category. Ryanair, Turkish in the aviation industry from Airlines, Lufthansa and KLM across the world. “I would like to were also awarded in the Finance, acknowledge colleagues at Kenya Marketing, Technology and Airways and our customers, Environment categories. •

flying to its first destination of Los Angeles.” UK sites in Filton and Broughton, as well as at resulting in higher load factors wherever it flies. “It is a very proud moment for everyone at our many partners’ facilities across the country.” The A380 also provides vital extra passenger Airbus to see our A380 in the livery of British All BA’s A380s will be powered by Rolls- capacity without increasing the number of Airways, one of the world’s most pioneering Royce Trent 900 engines. Airbus currently has flights, and is therefore part of the solution for airlines. With this new flagship in their fleet, 262 firm orders for the A380, from 20 customers. sustainable growth at congested airports. the British carrier opens a new era of long-haul The A380 is capable of flying 8,500 nautical To date, 40 million passengers have flying and offers its passengers an all-new travel miles or 15,700 kilometres non-stop, carrying already enjoyed the unique experience of experience”, said Airbus President and CEO, more people at lower cost and with less impact flying on board an A380. Every five minutes, Fabrice Brégier. “It is a special day for UK on the environment. The spacious, quiet cabin an A380 either takes off or lands at one of industry too, as a significant proportion of this and smooth ride have made the A380 a firm the 30 airports where it operates today and amazing aircraft was designed and built at Airbus’ favourite with both airlines and passengers, the network is constantly growing. •

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 11 institute Skytrax this reflects the Airline News high standard and service of the facilities. The fact that Lufthansa was awarded best airline in Western Europe and on transatlantic routes was a clear sign that Lufthansa standards were satisfying customers, Skytrax stressed. Lufthansa “We are working hard to make our customer services even better receives award and even more comfortable. These awards are further confirmation for its first of the investments we have made in the passenger experience and class lounge in our employees’ training. With Top rankings for our exclusive First Class Terminal Lufthansa at the in Frankfurt, we offer a tailored premium service on the ground – World Airline Awards we are delighted that our guests appreciate this,” said Dr Reinhold 2013 in the categories Huber. “We are investing around Best First Class Airline one million euros a day in the refitting of our new Business Class Lounge, Best Western alone. We have made significant European Airline improvements to our in-flight meals and have opened a large number and Best of new lounges on the ground. Transatlantic Airline We are currently in the process of expanding our entertainment service, Over the past ten months, 18 million and innovative products such as passengers from over 100 countries FlyNet – which we are the only have participated in the world’s airline worldwide to offer on long- largest aviation passenger survey and haul flights – round off our range of have recognised Lufthansa’s First services. We have a clearly defined Class lounges as the best in the world. goal: to become the first Western The airline has also been voted “Best Five Star Airline by 2015. We still Bombardier C-Series Western European Airline” and “Best need our fifth star in Business Class The Bombardier C-Series, is a to seat 80 to 120 passengers, Transatlantic Airline”. Dr Reinhold to get there, and that is what is family of narrow-body twin-engined abutting the smallest narrow bodies, Huber, Senior Vice President driving us forward,” Huber added. medium-range airliners that are like the 2-3 MD 80/ Boeing 717 Product & Marketing, received these This customer survey was being developed by the company. or the 3-3 A318 /737-500/737- prizes on Lufthansa’s behalf at the handled by the airline quality Models include the 110-seat CS100, 600. The project was shelved by World Airline Awards, hosted at assessment institute Skytrax, an and the 130-seat CS300. These Bombardier in favour of stretching the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget. aviation specialist. The study were initially named C110 and the CRJ 700 into the CRJ 900. The Lufthansa First Class examined over 40 different customer C130, respectively. In certification Meanwhile, the 72-seat Embraer Terminal at Frankfurt Airport satisfaction and service quality issues documentation, the C-Series E170 came to market (production received top marks in the survey, for each airline. It focused equally family is designated Bombardier began in 2002), followed by the with the First Class Lounges at the on the airlines’ in-flight experience BD-500, with suffix-1A10 for the 110-seat E-195. Both models were hubs Frankfurt and Munich were and their airport services. Skytrax CS100 and -1A11 for the CS300. widely adopted, and Bombardier also highly ranked by customers. has carried out this independent This new C-Series jet, which had no product to compete with According to the assessing study every year since 1999. • offers 110-seat and 130-seat versions, them in that capacity range. competes with the Boeing NG 737- 600, 737-700, A318 and A319 and Development Embraer 195. Bombardier claims In July 2004, Bombardier announced the C-series will burn 20% less fuel the development of the C-Series per trip than these competitors. family of airliners to replace the In November 2012, Bombardier cancelled BRJX project. The C-Series announced that the 110-seat CS100 would be larger than the current would take its maiden flight in CRJs, and capable of carrying 110 June 2013 and enter service in to 130 passengers. For the first time, 2014 Q2. The 130-seat CS300 Bombardier would be competing is to follow six months later. directly with the smallest airliners During the demise of Fokker , from Boeing and Airbus. At the Bombardier considered purchasing time, Bombardier expected the that company in order to gain access aircraft to be available by 2013. to the Fokker 100-seat short-haul In March 2005, Bombardier's aircraft. They eventually decided board decided to promote the plane against a purchase and ended to airlines to gather advance orders. discussions in February 1996. Two models were announced: the The Bombardier BRJX, C110 with layouts from 100-125 or "Bombardier Regional Jet seats, and the C130 with layouts from eXpansion", was a project for a 120-145 seats. The C-Series would larger regional jet than the Canadair feature new, more fuel-efficient Regional Jet. Instead of 2-2 seating, engines and a higher percentage of the BRJX was to have a wider composite materials in its fuselage, fuselage with 2-3 seating, and a strategy similar to that used on underwing engines. It was projected the widebody B787and the A350

12 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 The new aircraft would seat passengers in a 2-3 arrangement in coach and a 2-2 arrangement in business/first class, similar to the Boeing 717. With the 2-3 arrangement, 80% of the seats would be aisle or window seats, contrary to 'middle' seats (seats set between two other seats). The aircraft would have under-wing engines. The C-Series' fuselage was designed to give enhanced seating comfort for passengers, with features like broader seats and armrests for the middle passenger and larger windows at every seat to give every passenger the physical and psychological advantages of ample natural light. In May 2005, Bombardier secured agreements with the Federal Government of Canada, the Provincial Government of Quebec, and the Government of the United Kingdom for support and loans for the CSeries project. The Canadian government has committed US$350 million in financing; the British government has committed US$300 million. The program will cost about $3.5 billion, and Bombardier will share the cost with suppliers and governments. BOEING The fuselage was to be built in China by Shetang Aircraft Corporation. Final assembly of Business Jets (BBJ) the aircraft was to be at an airport outside Montreal. Substantial recently displayed their portions of the aircraft were to be constructed at Bombardier facilities BBJ 3 for the first time in Belfast, Northern Ireland. On 31 January 2006, Bombardier announced it would not go forward The airplane, based on the 737-900ER, was with plans to develop the C-Series fitted out with its custom VIP interiors at Jet after it had failed to secure significant Aviation in Basel, Switzerland. The BBJ 3 is orders to that point. It stated that it currently for sale, so the exterior remains "green" would keep a small team of roughly or unpainted, ready for a livery to be selected by 50 employees working on the a new owner. C-Series marketing plan, and would The range of the BBJ 3 exceeds that of include other risk-sharing partners in other business jets in its class. It can fly 4,900 the program. With the C-Series on nautical miles; more than 1,500 nautical miles hold, Bombardier announced on 18 (3 hours) farther than its direct competitor. February 2006 that it would begin The BBJ 3 range advantage is the reason work on the 100-seat CRJ 1000. why it has outsold its direct competitor by The C-Series cabin will feature seven-to-one according to Capt. Steve Taylor, large, rotating overhead storage president, Boeing Business Jets. bins, allowing each passenger The aircraft also features lower cabin altitude, to stow a sizeable carry-on bag pressurizing the cabin at 6,500 feet versus 8,000 overhead. Compared to the cabins feet of other business jets. This allows BBJ of current in-service narrow passengers to arrive at their destination relaxed body aircraft, the C-Series is to and refreshed without feeling jet lagged. provide airlines with the highest The cabin interior is finished in a bright, high- overhead bin volume per passenger gloss sycamore wood, with hand-crafted marquetry and a wider aisle that would woodwork integrated in the entrance panel. It allow for faster boarding and features a large main lounge and a smaller area disembarkation of passengers. for staff, a dining room and a bedroom suite with The C-Series aircraft contain a queen-sized bed and bathroom with a shower. 70% advanced materials comprising Jet Aviation has completed the interiors of two 46% composite materials and dozen Boeing commercial and private aircraft 24% aluminium lithium which since 1978. allows for a 15% lower seat-mile The BBJ 3 can carry 38 passengers and eight cost and a significant reduction crew members. It has a large cargo area that in maintenance costs. Computer holds 230 pieces of luggage. software design tools were used on To date, seven BBJ 3s have been ordered. the project, including, and similar Three are in completion; four are in service. technology that was employed Another BBJ 3 was scheduled to enter into service Best in its Class! in the Learjet 85 programme. • on June 1. •

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 13 Duty Time proposed by EASA. In some countries the figures are time limitation rules might not During a Parliamentary Hearing as high as 90%. With regard to the resolve the fatigue issue after Business News in the EU Transport Committee current situation, the recent EASA’s all. For instance, EASA suggests Skaiste Knyzaite - CEO of AviationCV.com held recently, the parties were initiative to review flight and duty the reduction of night flights still unable to reach common time limitation is loudly saluted. from 11 hours 45 minutes to 11 ground as concerns the issue. With Unfortunately, it seems that the hours maximum, but the industry controversial new regulations proposed amendments may still representatives claim that the allegedly to be put under vote in be a little bit too harsh on pilots. overnight duty should not exceed the EU Parliament already in H2 A Pan-European pilot union - the 10-hour limit. The latter opinion 2013, time for discussions and the European Cockpit Association is based on various scientists’ amendments has almost run out. (ECA) – along with the European recommendations, including Fatigue in the cockpit and Transport Safety Council those stated in the MOEBUS among the cabin crew members (ETSC), the British Airline Pilots' report, a special Scientific and is undoubtedly the topical issue. Association (BALPA) and a set Medical Evaluation of Flight Time The figures indicate that over a of other industry organizations Limitations. Furthermore, an 11- half of European pilots tend to have been continuously raising hour long night shift has also raised experience fatigue whilst on duty. their concerns that the new flight certain concerns within some of the EU member states. For example, the British Parliament’s Transport Committee has stated that ‘the proposed 11 hour duty period at night for pilots flies in the face of scientific evidence. It should be reduced to a 10 hour maximum.’ The new Flight Another point of the discord between the industry representatives Time regulations and the authorities is the flight duty period (FDP). The new regulations to be put under may lead to a situation when pilots are forced to land an aircraft after the EU parliament 20-22 hours of being awake, which includes 14-15 hours of FDP, 4 vote keep raising hours of standby, and additional time between the one when a pilot concerns for pilots wakes up and the one when he actually reports to duty. Another On 18th June, the representatives related issue is standby. Critics of of the European aviation authorities the new regulations point out that and airlines as well as aircraft crews even home standby may ‘interfere gathered to yet once again discuss with a normal sleep pattern’ and the new regulations on Flight and thus it should be at least partially included in the FDP limitations. Otherwise home standby may last for days, potentially triggering sleep disruptions. ATNS announces new CEO Critics of the new EASA proposals are referring to both The Air Traffic and Navigation service provision and steadfastly the relevant scientific studies and Services (ATNS) Board has continue to play our part in actual current situation in the announced the appointment – with ensuring safer African Skies for community of pilots. However, immediate effect - of Mr. Thabani all.” concluded Mr. Mamashela. one should bear in mind that Mthiyane to the position of Chief Mr Mthiyane is currently these proposals are also aimed at Executive Officer, following a serving as the Civil Aviation and unifying the flight and duty time rigorous and thorough recruitment Navigation Services’ (CANSO) standards across the entire EU. At process and subsequent Africa Region Chairperson. some point, the proposed standards approval by the Cabinet. His career is notable for the may be lower in comparison to Mr. Mpho Mamashela, contributions he made in the those already adopted in certain Chairman of the entity’s technical, technological and member-states. But considering Board of Directors, said that operational spheres of aviation. the majority of other countries, the Mr. Mthiyane has extensive He holds a BEng (Hon) new regulation will actually assist technical and operational Mechanical Engineering in bringing the standards to a new experience in all aspects of (University of Pretoria), BSc higher level. Furthermore, should Air Traffic Management. Eng in Electrical Engineering the EU Parliament be persuaded to “He shares the same values (University of Natal) and a vote against the EASA’s proposal, and commitment to our business National Diploma in Electronic it may take years until there will and industry as our Board and Mr. Thabani Mthiyane. Engineering (Technikon be another opportunity to bring fully understands the needs Natal). He is completing Europe’s defragmented flight of our stakeholders. He also and commitment to his work, and his World Executive MBA duty regulation under common has the right credentials and most importantly, the staff’s support through the George Washington principles. Needless to say, the skills to take ATNS forward” during his recent interim acting term. University, Washington. new regulations might not be stated Mr. Mamashela. “Our ability to stay committed, Mr Mthiyane is a registered perfect, and in time they should In congratulating Mr. passionate and focussed as a Professional Engineer and is and will definitely be improved Mthiyane on his appointment, Mr company is what will take us into the also a member of the South whilst taking into account the Mamashela said the Board has next twenty years, as we forge new African Institute of Electrical opinions of all stakeholders. But noted Mr. Mthiyane’s dedication frontiers in the area of air navigation Engineers (SAIEE). • meanwhile it is vitally important to make the first move. •

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2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 15 Paris Air Show by Fabrice Morlon - pics Aero3A NEWS

Paris Air Show 2013: Attendance down, orders up

Above: Pride of the French Air Force: Pa- trouille de France and A400M. emonstration flights by the as a number of concept machines Airbus A380 and Boeing were unveiled during the week with D787 and the announcement companies vying with each other for from Boeing regarding its 777X orders and interest. Amongst these were not enough to detract from were unmanned UAVs by Piaggio the undoubted star of the show: and Selex who presented their P.1HH, the Airbus A350XWB which an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) made its first public flight, a short built with the same shape as the flyby before returning home to manned P180 Avanti II. It is a 6 ton the Airbus test platform. Accord- UAV set to compete against the other ing to Boeing the 777X will be medium altitude long endurance the largest and most fuel-efficient (MALE) craft. Sagem and Thales twin-engine jet in the world, with displayed their respective UAV, the Above: Alphajets lined up. Patroller and the Watchkeeper, with a new configuration. Cassidian, Main pic: The Patrouille de France Alphajets Dassault Aviation and Finmeccanica in front of the A380. announced their intention to join up to design a new generation MALE. In terms of general aviation, General Electric unveiled the GE9X, a 46 ton thrust engine with fuel consumption reduced by 10% in 20 per cent lower fuel consumption comparison to the former GE engine. and 15 per cent lower operating costs This “pinnacle of engineering” than today's 777. will undoubtedly be the future Also popular was the comeback engine dedicated to Boeing, who by Russian aircraft when Sukhoi chose GE as an exclusive partner presented a spectacular display by for the 777X development. the Su-35, making its first appearance Environmental issues, noise and in Europe, while Antonov brought consumption form part of the study back its AN-70 after almost a decade and research in the general aviation of tests and modernization. world. Safran and Honeywell A number of new aircraft as well unveiled their EGTS, an electric Paris Air Show First Thales A400M Full Flight Simulator Ready for Training The first A400M Full Flight Simulator (FFS) designed and built by Thales for Airbus Military received European Aviation Safety Agency’s qualification for training on the 7 June at Airbus Military International Training Centre in Seville. This qualification is a key enabling milestone that allows Airbus Military to start to train A400M flight crews for their complex missions in a safe environment. The Full Flight Simulator utilises aircraft hardware and software that represents the initial configuration of the A400M aircraft cockpit and simulates the ground and flight operations of the aircraft in Above: Safran Silvercrest, a new engine scheduled for 2017 dedicated to business jets various natural and tactical environments. It includes an enhanced that will reduce fuel consumption by up to 15%. field of view visual system that is capable of supporting training in all aircraft manoeuvres, including air-to-air refuelling and low level tactical operations. A six degrees of freedom motion system, on-board and off-board instructor stations and a record and replay system to aid crew briefing and debriefing is also provided. As new aircraft data is made available, Thales and Airbus Military teams are also working to obtain Level D certification for this simulator. Peter Hitchcock, VP Avionics, Thales UK, says: “Thales is the leading provider of training solutions for Military Aircraft with contracts to provide A400M Full Flight Simulators and Flat Panel Trainers to Spain, France, Germany and UK. We are proud to offer our long-standing experience to help train pilots for this exciting and highly capable new aircraft”. •

Above: Dassault Aviation presented its work on a large stand with the models of the current airplanes, here the Rafale B.

green taxiing system placed on presented its Ka-52 in flight the main landing gear that allows during the first days of the show. a significant gain of fuel, almost Mick Maurer, CEO of Sikorsky, 4% per flight. The EGTS will be said during the Paris Air Show efficient in 2016. EADS presented that contra-rotating rotors are the E-FAN, a twin seat electrical obviously the future and stated plane dedicated to private pilots, that a version of the X2 will be scheduled to be produced in 2017. developed for a civilian use. With regards to the helicopters, The engineers at UK-based high velocity and contra-rotating aerospace firm AgustaWestland propellers are now seen most are already focusing on tilt rotor frequently. Eurocopter displayed aircraft, having recently developed the X3 on static and Kamov the intriguing commercial-use AW609. It also seems that some 18 months ago, they began secretly test-flying what has now been publicly unveiled as being the world’s first electric tilt rotor airplane. It’s known simply as Project Zero. The technology demonstrator aircraft was reportedly designed and built over a period of just six months. It made its first unmanned tethered flight at the company's Cascina Costa facility in Italy, in June of 2011 and has since been flown several other times in 2011 and 2012, including some untethered flights “inside a secured area.”

Left: The E-FAN on the left side and on the right the DA36 E-STAR two experimental electric planes developed by Diamond Aircraft, EADS and Siemens.

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As with other tilt rotor aircraft, rotors can be tilted to “windmill” the lift when cruising, with elevons Project Zero’s two rotors can be in the oncoming wind, charging (combined elevators and ailerons) tilted up to 90 degrees. This allows the batteries as they do. controlling pitch and roll, and the it to take off and land vertically Project Zero’s control systems, V-tail adding longitudinal stability. and to hover, like a helicopter, flight controls and landing gear For missions that are primarily while also flying forward with the actuators are also all electrically taking place in “helicopter mode,” speed and efficiency of a fixed- powered, which means no hydraulic however, the outer portion of wing aircraft. Each of the rotors system is required – the plane also the wings can be removed for are driven by their own electric doesn’t require a transmission. increased manoeuvreability. motor, which is powered by The aircraft's entire exterior Additionally, because Project rechargeable batteries – technical surface is carbon graphite to Zero’s electric motors don’t details are sparse at this time. maximize strength and minimize require oxygen in order to operate, When parked on the ground, those weight. The wings provide most of the aircraft could conceivably

Left: The star of the displays: The SU-35.

20 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 fly at very high altitudes or in heavily-polluted air. It should also be difficult to detect, as it makes little noise and has a low thermal signature while in flight. It’s hard to say when or if a production version of Project Zero will be seen, as it was designed as “an insight into what advanced rotorcraft of the future may look like.” AgustaWestland is looking into the possibility of a hybrid version, which would use a diesel The Safran EGTS, the Electric Green Taxiing System allows a engine to power a generator. • significant gain in fuel savings.

Left: The star of the displays: The SU-35.

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 21 Paris Air Show Photograph by Verruer/Sunlight Image

22 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 23 Paris Air Show Thales unveils avionics 2020 The cockpit of the future On the opening day of the Paris core functions supplied by third Air Show 2013 Thales, world parties. Furthermore, it can be leader in avionics innovation personalised so as to merge with unveiled the cockpit of the future. the cockpit concept as defined by Named Avionics 2020, this the customer. Personalisation duties cockpit is the natural evolution can interchangeably be handled of the cockpit concept for which by Thales or by the customer, who Thales has become famous, the may wish to retain control over IP ODICIS demonstrator. Unveiled at aspects and enjoy greater autonomy the last Paris air show, the ODICIS in the development and management concept illustrated the technologies of changes to their solution. The this by merging data from the which consist of giving the pilot a and innovations Thales imagines cockpit’s concept introduces a modern different avionics and non-avionics time constraint at metering point to will be need on commercial aircraft and effective cockpit implementation systems and present them to the pilot each aircraft converging to this point, in the next 20 years. With the which integrates a large, secure in a transparent manner, making in order to better sequence traffic. groundbreaking Avionics 2020 display area associated with several decision instinctive and less reliant on Furthermore D-Taxi (Digital-Taxi) cockpit, Thales demonstrates to the reconfigurable means of control. cognitive analysis, thus mimicking functionalities will be included in world, the technologies and concepts This user-friendly organisation the processes which the human brain the cockpit. D-Taxi is a real-time manufacturable now and which can of the cockpit incorporates multi- goes through in order to make a uplink of the cleared taxi route via be made flight-ready on commercial touchscreen capabilities, offering decision, especially under stress. CPDLC (Controller-Pilot Data Link aircraft in the next 7 years. pilots an intuitive interaction Perhaps most significantly, Communications) and representation Avionics 2020 incarnates a solution comprising all aircraft this cockpit anticipates the future of the taxi path in the cockpit new-generation cockpit founded on systems and functions. challenges of the air transport systems. In addition, ASAS (Airborne the principles of natural and direct Continuing on from the most industry, in their continuing efforts Separation Assistance Systems) will hands-on interaction and human- important innovations presented to maintain growth trends in air also be displayed. ASAS spacing machine interfaces, designed to on the 2030 concept, Avionics traffic, whilst at the same time helps create a regular traffic flow serve the pilot through the use of 2020 is centred on enabling pilots reducing carbon emissions, noise by ensuring an aircraft adjusts its the latest head-up and head-down to capitalise on their strengths and pollution and ease congestion in the speed so that it can keep its spacing technologies. Its totally scalable help them manage their weaknesses. skies without compromising safety relative to another aircraft, and model, can also include bi-chromal Thales has therefore worked closely standards. This critical future proofing therefore merges according to the head-up displays enabling enhanced for a number of years with researches, is accomplished with the integration requirement set by the controller. collimated piloting data organisation scientific institutions and world class of SESAR and NextGen capabilities And finally the ground-breaking and discrimination, associated experts in the field of human-machine already built into the cockpit so that Thales concept of ECO Take-Off, with a synthetic representation interface, to refine its understanding the pilot can easily and efficiently use will be available on the Avionics of the outside environment. of this field of development. These the full range of the new functions 2020. ECO Take-Off is an optimised Much like its overall avionics, efforts, culminated into a cockpit required by these programmes. take-off and climb profile in order the human-machine interface of entirely focused on the tasks to be The capabilities built into the to define the trade-off between CO2 Avionics 2020 can connect to completed by the pilot. It achieves cockpit include I4D operations, emissions and noise reductions. •

OEM Defence Services has signed a five year maintenance contract with Eurocopter covering more than 100 equipment items, including avionics, hydraulics and mechanical systems, installed on all versions of the NH90 helicopter in service worldwide. The single contract covers through-life support services for the equipment and systems manufactured by five major players in the aerospace sector that are shareholders in OEM Defence Services: Diehl Aerospace, Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation, Safran, Thales and Zodiac. Through this new agreement, which is based OEM Defence on a shared-services model with contractual commitments on performance levels and costs, Services announces OEM Defence Services is helping to drive the a signature with process of simplification of onboard equipment maintenance and improve the overall performance Eurocopter of a of through-life support for the NH90 fleet. OEM Defence Services draws on the best-in- throughlife support class industrial capabilities of its shareholders and contract for worldwide partners to propose a collaborative, service-oriented model with innovative solutions that leverage NH90 helicopter fleets synergies to adapt to the needs of customers. With the conclusion of this contract, Eurocopter and OEM Defence Services will deploy an optimised model of industrial cooperation that will improve the operational efficiency of NH90 customers and help to control their through-life support budgets. •

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Industry News

Beechcraft answers need for light ISR capabilities with the Baron G58 Company delivers first Baron G58 with ISR package

During the Paris Air Show the Beechcraft Corporation announced that it was offering the Baron G58 The 230-HD EO/IR camera on the undercarriage of the Baron G58. with Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. representation of the target location. admissible evidence for prosecution. the mission package integration is The company recently delivered The multi-band communications All of the surveillance mission done without customized software, the first Baron G58 with an ISR radio gives the flight crew and equipment for the Beechcraft making it easy to troubleshoot package to the Fuerzas Unidas de the sensor operator the ability to Baron G58 ISR is commercially and maintain in the field. More Rápida Acción (FURA), an agency communicate directly with the available with short lead-times and than 6,700 Barons have been within the Puerto Rico Police military, police vehicles, coast high reliability. While the physical produced to date and Beechcraft Department that uses the aircraft guard and other maritime vessels integration of the mission sensors to maintains a large inventory of for law enforcement surveillance and the recorder provides court the airframe is highly specialized, spares around the world.• missions within the region. Beechcraft has long served the ISR markets with its range of King Air turboprops. The company first Piaggio Aero announces revised maintenance introduced its version of its twin- program for its twin turboprop engine piston Baron G58 aircraft with ISR capabilities last year at In its ongoing quest to make the required daily check and monthly PT6-66A engines on the aircraft. the Farnborough International already fuel efficient aircraft, even inspection, represented a reduction Paolo Ferreri, VP of Worldwide Air Show, and plans to launch a more cost effective to operate, of up to 18% in the maintenance Customer Support for Piaggio Aero company demonstrator aircraft in Piaggio Aero announced today man-hours for the aircraft. recently announced that approval the fourth quarter of this year. that it is has now approved a In early 2013 the 10-year, of the new maintenance program “Since we first introduced revised maintenance program with Time Between Overhauls (TBO) had been enabled following an the Baron G58 ISR concept last extended inspection intervals for of the Piaggio Aero P.180 Avanti/ extensive study of reliability year, we have seen interest from its fuel efficient twin turboprop. II aircraft landing gear was data gathered over 800 thousand countries around the world needing In 2012 the Italian extended from 10 to 12 years. flight hours, accumulated by the a light aircraft solution that offers a manufacturer reduced the tasks Piaggio Aero now announces worldwide fleet of Piaggio P180 balance of high dash speeds, long covered by its "A" check service, that the C and D checks, due Avanti aircraft in a variety of endurance, state-of-the-art glass making it a "light inspection respectively at 1500 and 3000 flight mission profiles. He added that cockpit avionics, exceptional flying and servicing" operation, while hours, have been extended to 1800 the company was consistently and handling qualities, a rugged at the same time extending and 3600 flight hours respectively. seeking ways to provide savings for airframe and low operating costs,” the compliance interval from These newly approved intervals their aircraft operators around the said Dan Keady, Beechcraft senior 150 to 200 flight hours. allow the operator to match the world and that they were confident vice president, Special Missions. This change, together with airframe inspection schedule with that the extended maintenance “The Baron is unique in that it the cancellation of the previously that of the Pratt & Whitney Canada times would do just that. • can provide all of these features for special mission operators, and we are pleased to deliver the first aircraft to the FURA.” The Baron G58 ISR package includes a FLIR 230-HD electro- optical/infrared (EO/IR) camera system, an operator’s console which houses the mapping/mission management computer, a recorder and a multi-band communications radio system and data link for special mission operators. The 230-HD EO/IR camera has the ability to virtually see both day and night, over land and water, in both good and poor weather. The mission mapping system provides the camera operator with a visual

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manufactured by de Havilland at Havilland Vampire. It served with 6. The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin Did you Know? its Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United the Royal Air Force as a single-seat was an American prototype fighter Kingdom headquarters, the Comet fighter-bomber and two-seat night aircraft conceived during World War by Cesaré de Villiers 1 prototype first flew on 27 July fighter. The Venom was an interim II by McDonnell Aircraft. It was 1949. It featured an aerodynamically between the first generation of intended to be deployed from the clean design with four de Havilland British jet fighters – straight-wing bomb bay of the giant Convair B-36 Ghost turbojet engines buried in aircraft powered by centrifugal flow bomber as a parasite fighter. The the wings, a pressurised fuselage, engines such as the Gloster Meteor XF-85’s intended role was to defend and large square windows. For the and the Vampire and later swept bombers from hostile interceptors, a era, it offered a relatively quiet, wing, axial flow-engined designs need demonstrated during World War comfortable passenger cabin and such as the Hawker Hunter and de II. Two prototypes were constructed showed signs of being a commercial Havilland Sea Vixen. The Venom before the program was terminated. success at its 1952 debut. was successfully exported, and saw service with Iraq, New Zealand, 7. The XF-85 was a response to Sweden, Switzerland and Venezuela. a United States Army Air Forces 1. Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (May (USAAF) requirement for a 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972), 5. The Yakovlev Yak-25 was a fighter to be carried within the was a Russian American aviation Soviet military aircraft, an early Northrop XB-35 and B-36, then pioneer in both helicopters and turbojet-powered interceptor under development. This was to fixed-wing aircraft. He designed aircraft designed by the Yakovlev address the limited range of existing and flew the world’s first multi- OKB. The designation was later interceptor aircraft compared engine fixed-wing aircraft, the 3. The de Havilland Ghost (originally reused for a different interceptor to the greater range of new Russky Vityaz in 1913, and the first Halford H-2) was the de Havilland design. Tasked by the Council of bomber designs. The XF-85 was airliner, Ilya Muromets, in 1914. Engine Company’s second turbojet Ministers in a directive issued on a diminutive jet aircraft featuring After emigrating to the engine design to enter production 11 March 1947, with producing a a distinctive egg-shaped fuselage United States in 1919, Sikorsky and the world’s first gas turbine straight winged fighter similar to and a forked-tail stabilizer design. founded the Sikorsky Aircraft engine to enter airline (BOAC) the earlier Yak-19, but powered The prototypes were built and Corporation in 1923, and service. A scaled up development of by a Rolls-Royce Derwent V, underwent testing and evaluation developed the first of Pan American the Goblin, the Ghost powered the OKB-115 swiftly produced the in 1948. Flight tests showed Airways’ ocean-conquering de Havilland Venom, de Havilland Yak-25, which blazed several trails promise in the design, but the flying boats in the 1930s. Comet and SAAB Tunnan. as the first Soviet fighter with aircraft’s performance was inferior In 1939, Sikorsky designed a fully pressurised cockpit, air to the jet fighters it would have and flew the Vought-Sikorsky conditioning, jettisonable canopy, been facing in combat, and there VS-300, the first viable American and hydraulic airbrakes on the were difficulties in docking. The helicopter, which pioneered the fuselage amongst other innovations. XF-85 was swiftly cancelled, and rotor configuration used by most the prototypes were thereafter helicopters today. Sikorsky would relegated to museum exhibits. modify the design into the Sikorsky The 1947 successor to the USAAF, R-4, which became the world’s first the United States Air Force mass-produced helicopter in 1942. (USAF), continued to examine the concept of parasite aircraft under 2. The de Havilland DH 106 4. The de Havilland DH 112 Venom Project MX-106 “Tip Tow”, Project Comet was the first production was a British postwar single-engined FICON and Project “Tom-Tom” commercial jetliner. Developed and jet aircraft developed from the de following the cancellation.

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Gigaba, said: “The approximately socio-economic imperatives. the equipment from lightning, Military News ZAR200-million (€15.1m) work The contract strengthens Denel’s hail damage and bird strikes. package is contracted to run position in South Africa’s aerospace The fuselage Top Shells

over the entire life of the A400M industry and reconfirms the are made up of more than 1 programme and demonstrates company as a strategic national 100 individual parts and a large Airbus Military’s confidence in asset, its contribution to skills machined skin, engineered out Denel and South Africa’s design development and advanced of an aluminium alloy. Each and manufacturing capabilities, manufacturing, as well as its A400M is fitted with two Top Airbus Military coupled with our ability to deliver potential to generate export revenue Shells, positioned in front and on time and within budgets.” for the country,” Mr Saloojee said. behind the wings where they awards A400M DAe has already begun Under a renegotiated contract join the fuselage. They are also preparing to launch production of announced last September, the fitted with approximately 1 000 the components at its plant near South African manufacturer is also brackets which support electrical tailplane work Johannesburg and will deliver responsible for two other A400M and electronic wiring, hot air the first finished shipment to work packages involving the and heat exchange pipes and the package to South Airbus’s specialised vertical design, engineering and fabrication aircraft’s emergency life rafts. tail plane factory at Stade, of the Wing-to-Fuselage Fairing Africa´s Denel Germany in March 2014. and the fuselage Top Shells. About the A400M “Our success in establishing The wing-to-fuselage fairing The A400M is an all-new military Aerostructures and maintaining partnerships like is the largest single aerostructure airlifter designed to meet the needs the one with Airbus Military is one component ever produced in of the world's Armed Forces in the Airbus Military has placed a third of the pillars of our growth strategy, South Africa and provides 21st Century. It is ideally suited work package with South Africa’s and it will make Denel profitable an aerodynamic shroud over to the typical African peace- Denel Aerostructures (DAe) for on a sustainable basis, improve sensitive equipment located support missions which continue the manufacture of structural our financial performance while in the centre wing part of the to be undertaken by South Africa components for the A400M also contributing to our national A400M. The fairing protects in support of the African Union military transport programme. and United Nations mandates This multi-million Rand on the continent. Thanks to its contract was received at the most advanced technologies, the Paris Air Show today on behalf A400M is able to fly higher, faster of South Africa’s Minister for and further, while retaining high Public Enterprises, Mr Malusi manoeuvreability, low speed, Gigaba and Denel’s Group and short, soft and rough airfield CEO, Mr Riaz Saloojee. It capabilities. It combines both will see DAe producing the tactical and strategic/logistic ribs, spars and swords (ie. the missions. With its cargo hold skeletal support structure) for the specifically designed to carry the A400M’s vertical tail plane. outsize equipment needed today Airbus Military CEO, Mr for both military and humanitarian Domingo Urena, said: “Denel, disaster relief missions, it can bring with its diverse set of expertise, this material quickly and directly to capabilities and capacities, is where it is most needed. Conceived central to Airbus Military’s to be highly reliable, dependable, ambition to develop an expanded and with a great survivability, and multi-faceted partnership with the multipurpose A400M can do South Africa’s high-tech aerospace Above (l-r): South Africa’s Deputy Director General of Public Enterprises, more with less, implying smaller and defence industry, tied to Mr Kgathatso Tlhakudi celebrates Denel’s new Airbus fleets and less investment from the Military contract in the cockpit of an A400M military South Africa’s military aircraft transport plane with Denel Chairman, Mr Zoli Kunene. operator. The A400M is the most requirements and acquisitions”. cost efficient and versatile airlifter South Africa’s Minister of ever conceived and absolutely Public Enterprises, Mr Malusi Below:  The Airbus Military A400M takes off for a flight presentation at unique in its capabilities. • the 2013 Paris Air Show .

32 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 is the leading combat fighter system innovative design. Gripen with the The test team included representatives Gripen first with great opportunities for fast and Saab PS05 radar and the Meteor from Saab, FMV and British MBDA. cost-efficient continuous integration missile represent the absolute best During the autumn, additional to first Meteor of new capabilities, such as weapons in the world when in comes to air tests will be conducted so that missile and sensors, thanks to our efficient defense,” says Lennart Sindahl, Head delivery of the new capabilities way of working and Gripen’s of Saab's business area Aeronautics. can be made during 2014. • In cooperation with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), defence and security company Saab has successfully conducted the first test firing of LAST SAAF PC-7 Mk II BACK IN SERVICE the version of the Meteor radar- by Clinton Barnard controlled air-to-air missile, On June 25, 2013, the 35th and which, following upgrade, are 2013. The last three PC-7 Mk developed for mass production. final Pilatus PC-7 Mk II, serial no longer known as such, but IIs modified, serials 2020, 2024 Gripen is thus the first combat 2025, was returned to service simply as the PC-7 Mk II. and 2025 respectively, were all fighter system in the world with the with the South African Air PC-7 Mk II serial 2019, which appropriately adorned Silver capability to fire this version of the Force (SAAF) Central Flying was already at the Pilatus factory Falcons Aerobatic Team aircraft. Meteor, which has been developed School at AFB Langebaanweg at Stans undergoing a corrosion On May 16, 2013, the project for Gripen, Eurofighter and Rafale. following the conclusion of rectification programme, became closure function was held and the At the end of June, the first two the Avionics Replacement the prototype conversion and hangar and equipment employed Meteor missiles in mass production Programme called Project made its maiden flight from there at Langebaanweg were due to configuration were fired for the Ithambo. The project involved during September 2009. Following have been vacated by June 28 and first time from Gripen at a remote- the replacement of obsolete testing, this same aircraft was the Pilatus personnel involved controlled target. The test firing cockpit avionic equipment officially unveiled back at returned to Switzerland. demonstrated separation from the and displays that had become Langebaanweg on July 13, 2010. Attempts by this writer to aircraft and the link function between unsupportable by local industry The modified aircraft are most request a complete list of all the aircraft and missile, as well as following the demise of the South easily identified by the presence of modified aircraft were declined the missile's ability to lock in on the African companies concerned. a small disk-shaped GPS antenna by the SAAF's corporate target. The test firing was also used The upgrade introduced new on the very front top of the communications department as to verify the command support that Honeywell avionic equipment vertical fin. Less noticeably, the being “too sensitive to release!” has been developed for the pilot. as specified by the PC-7 Mk II's wing root fairings are also more ARMSCOR, South Africa's “Testing has been completed as original designer and builder, prominent on modified aircraft. armaments acquisition and planned and we've now taken yet Pilatus Aircraft Limited of The 31st example modified, disposal agency, is to market the another important step in work Stans, Switzerland. This then serial 2015, was accepted back bulk of the 18 or so examples with integration and development de-South Africanises the Astra, into SAAF service on March 12, that have not been modified. • of Gripen C/D,” says Michael Östergren, FMV's project manager for the Meteor. “I'm impressed with the results that we've jointly accomplished and it instills considerable confidence in continued work with integrating the Meteor on Gripen.” The Meteor is a BVRAAM (Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile) developed to enable engagement of airborne targets at long distances. The missile is the result of a European collaborative project involvingSw eden,France,Italy,Spain,Germany andGreat Britain.Great Britainhas responsibility for contracts and work is led byUK’s defence procurement The easiest means of identifying a modified PC-7 Mk II is evident in this view of serial 2018 seen at Africa Aerospace and and support organisation – Defence Defence 2012 at Air Force Base Waterkloof on September 22. The GPS antenna is clearly visible on the front top of the Equipment and Support (DE&S). vertical fin, the more prominent wing root fairings less so - Pic Clinton Barnard. “Once again it’s clear that Gripen

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ilatus Aircraft Ltd is pleased to 2013 at the Indian Air Force Acad- awaited and significant milestone in basic flight training was announce that the first Indian emy at Dundigal, Hyderabad. as promised and on time. achieved following delivery of PAir Force Basic Flight Training The Indian Air Force, the More than eighty cadets the fourteenth PC-7MKII trainer course using the PC-7MKII aircraft Indian Ministry of Defence and will participate in this first aircraft in June 2013, fourteen commenced, as planned, on 8th July Pilatus have achieved this long- training course. The resumption months after contract signature.

34 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 In parallel, Pilatus has also The Pilatus team wishes the that the introduction of the PC-7 We look forward to continuing provided training to Indian Air instructors and cadets at the Air MkII into the Indian Air Force deliveries of the 75 PC-7 MkII Force maintenance personnel and Force Academy Dundigal, who training system will prove itself training aircraft to the Indian instructor pilots and has delivered a are taking part in this first course, to be an extremely capable, safe Air Force and in supporting the complete logistics support package. much success. Pilatus is confident and reliable training platform. aircraft for the coming years. •

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 35 Military News Philippe Duhamel named Chief Executive Officer of ThalesRaytheonSystems Philippe Duhamel will become for Ground-Based Radars and the Chief Executive Officer of contributed to the development ThalesRaytheonSystems. He of the product policy for air succeeds Jack Harrington. surveillance radars and the Philippe Duhamel joined integration of Thales’s French and The test range the Thales Group in 1987 Dutch operations in this area. as head engineer for an anti In 2010, Philippe Duhamel successfully aircraft defense system. became Chief Executive Officer He was then appointed of Thales Raytheon Systems SAS, supported two director of command information the French operations of the joint systems programs for European venture between Thales and Raytheon satellite launches and North-American customers. specializing in air defense systems in different parts In 1998, he was named director for armed forces worldwide. of bids and proposals for Thales’s Philippe Duhamel is 51 years of the world air traffic control business. He then old and holds a degree from the became the director of programs Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble During May this year, two and integration for Thales’s naval and has been admitted to take part telemetry specialists from radars and ground-based air defense in the 65th defense policy session Denel Overberg Test Range and systems for Thales Netherlands. of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de their mobile telemetry station In 2007, Philippe Duhamel la Défense Nationale (IHEDN). He successfully supported the second New CEO Philippe Duhamel. was promoted to Vice President is married and has three children. • launch of the VEGA launch vehicle (VV02) while deployed in Northern French Guiana. phase of the ascent of the launch Leon Korkie and Deon van vehicle from shortly after launch, der Hoven assembled the mobile from the Guiana Space Centre Patrick Dewar to Lead New Organization telemetry station on site, integrated near Kourou, until it disappeared Focused on Global Expansion it with the French Space Agency over the horizon in the North. telemetry kit and participated in The second mobile telemetry Lockheed Martin Corporation responsibility, including vice the qualification of the telemetry station of The Test Range was has launched Lockheed Martin president of Corporate International network before supporting the actual deployed and prepared by Herman International (LMI), a new Business Development, vice mission. The mobile telemetry Steenkamp and Nico du Plessis organization responsible for president of Business Development station of The Test Range provided at Invercargill in New Zealand strengthening international customer for the Electronic Systems business key coverage for the powered during March 2013. On 5 and relationships and industrial area, and the European program partnerships, and growing the director for the Medium Extended company’s global business. Patrick Air Defense System (MEADS) based M. Dewar, 52, has been named in Munich, Germany. Dewar has Executive Vice President of LMI and served as Chairman of the Boards of will continue as a corporate officer. Directors for Lockheed Martin UK The LMI team will work with Holdings Limited, Lockheed Martin global Lockheed Martin customers España, S.A., and Lockheed Martin to deliver the company’s products, Australia Pty Limited, as well as the technologies and services to meet Lockheed Martin UAE Advisory their national security and citizen Board. He holds a Master of Science services needs. The LMI organization degree in Electrical Engineering is headquartered in London, from Drexel University and a England, and the Washington, D.C., Bachelor of Science in Engineering metropolitan area; has corporate from Swarthmore College. offices in Ottawa, Riyadh, Abu Headquartered in Bethesda, Dhabi, Singapore and Canberra; Md., Lockheed Martin is a global and regional offices in Tel Aviv, security and aerospace company Above: Denel Overberg Test Range’s mobile telemetry station’s antenna at the New Delhi, Tokyo and Seoul. that employs about 118,000 people deployment site in French Guiana where it provided key coverage during Prior to being named to lead worldwide and is principally engaged the second launch of the Ve. LMI, Dewar was senior vice in the research, design, development, president of Corporate Strategy and manufacture, integration, and Business Development. Throughout sustainment of advanced technology his 28-year career with Lockheed systems, products, and services. Martin, Dewar has held a number The Corporation’s net sales for of leadership positions of increasing 2012 were $47.2 billion. •

6 June 2013, Leon Korkie and 10 day period of free flight. Herman Steenkamp flawlessly Mr Japie Venter, Project supported the fourth launch of the Manager for these stations, Automatic Transfer Vehicle (ATV4: remarked, “This is also a record Albert Einstein) from Kourou on for us, because it is the first an Ariane 5 ES Launch vehicle. time that two Denel Overberg The launch of the Albert Test Range mobile telemetry Einstein space vehicle with a stations successfully supported mass of more than 20 metric two different missions on tons was a record-setting heavy- opposite sides of the world.” Above: Mr Herman Steenkamp, Mr Gilles Sonny, Telespazio - Kourou, Mr Robin McNeill, Venture Southland – New Zealand and Mr Leon Korkie, lift mission for Ariane Space. It Both missions were contracted celebrating the successful support of the fourth Automatic Transfer Vehicle docked with the International Space by the French Space Agency (CNES) (ATV4) launch. Station on 15 June 2013 after a under a current umbrella agreement.•

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CMagazineHOPPER for the Helicopter, charter, travel, maintenance, training and Military industries O in Africa NESA - R25 Magic Merlins Dirk Jan de Ridder and Menso van Westrhenen visit Esquadra 751 at Montijo airbase as the squadron celebrates its 35th anniversary.

Main pic: After a SAR training mission over the Atlantic Ocean, crews regularly practice at the cliffs along the coast. This may include a rescue diver being hoisted down onto the beach as well as a 'slope landing'.

Above: A plate at the entrance of the squadron building proudly GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 38 displays the number of lives saved over the past 35 years. squadra 751 ‘Pumas’ was named after the Standard features available in all three and other sensors, an external loudspeaker and helicopter it received when the squadron variants of the Merlin include a primary and an additional bubble window on the starboard Ewas commissioned in April 1978, the a secondary winch, a NITESUN search light, side. The EH101-516 features CSAR mission SA330 Puma. By the turn of the century the a FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) camera, a equipment such as armored plating and a SA330 needed replacement and the AgustaWest- Galileo search radar with the ability to monitor full defensive aid suite, consisting of a radar land EH101 Merlin was selected after a thorough 32 surface targets simultaneously and emergency warning receiver, missile warning system evaluation, which also included the Sikorsky S-92 floats. All helicopters are also NVG (night vision and countermeasures dispensing system. In and Eurocopter Cougar. Twelve Merlins were goggle) compatible. For passenger transport case no EH101-516s be available for combat delivered between December 2004 and July 2006, 30 front-facing seats or side-facing seats for missions, then these defensive measures can be comprising six models EH101-514 for basic Search 35 fully equipped soldiers can be installed. installed in the EH101-514 as well. The main And Rescue (SAR), two EH101-515 for fishery Other missions performed by Esquadra 751 rotor blades and the tail rotor of the CSAR patrol (SIFICAP), and four EH101-516 for Combat include aeromedical evacuation, air logistic Merlin feature a fully automatic folding system Search And Rescue (CSAR). While the latter two support operations and maritime surveillance. for operations from Landing Platform Docks. models are specially equipped for a secondary role, The EH101-515 is adapted for fishery patrol Finally, they are also configured for air-to-air all helicopters are being used for the squadron’s with a cabin console behind the cockpit for primary mission of Search And Rescue. the operation of the 360-degree scanning radar

The squadron's 35th anniversary patchand a Patch of 751 Squadron

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 39 refuelling and hover-in-flight- would allow future EH101 pilots flight hours logged by the squadron in Europe. In fact, Portugal is refuelling, but these capabilities to fly a multi-engine helicopter decreased from 2208 in 2011 to responsible for the second largest are currently not being used. before converting to the Merlin. 1744 in 2012. When talking about area worldwide, behind Canada. Initial maintenance issues and At present, rotary flying training is operational SAR missions, in 2011 Besides operating from the lack of experienced crews sparked performed on the Alouette III and the squadron logged 608 hours while squadron’s home base Montijo the Portuguese Air Force to bring the pilots describe learning to fly the saving 173 lives. These numbers (near Lisbon), two Merlin crews are SA330 back in service shortly after EH101 as ‘learning to fly all over decreased to 430 hours and 157 permanently detached to Lajes air retiring it in 2006. A lack of spares again’. Portugal is among the worst lives the next year. Each pilot flies a base in the Azores (some 850 miles led to half the Merlin fleet (mainly hit European economies though rough average of between 150 and west of Portuguese mainland) and SAR versions) being grounded in and it will be difficult to find the 180 hours per year. Although this an additional crew is detached to order to provide spare parts for the money to replace the Alouette III. may seem a very fair amount, this Porto Santo airport (440 miles west other six helicopters. A contract Under the command of LtCol includes frequent rescue missions, of Casablanca, Morocco). In order signed in 2008 with AgustaWestland, João Carita, who is one of only three leaving only around a hundred to have the helicopters deployed as saw the manufacturer take pilots in the world with over 2000 hours for training. One pilot told long as possible they only fly when responsibility for secondary-level hours on the EH101, Esquadra 751 the authors he scrambled into called into action. All three locations maintenance of the helicopters consists of around 100 personnel, action for the past three consecutive are provided with round-the-clock as well as the provision of spare including some 25 pilots, 12 24-hour shifts he was on alert. If SAR coverage. The response time parts and technical support. This systems operators and nearly 20 there is a sudden increase in rescue is 30 minutes during the day or 45 has led the entire fleet of Merlins rescue swimmers. Defence budget missions, or an increase in flying minutes at night. Since crews at to become operational again. cuts have affected the squadron’s distance to emergency locations, Porto Santo are accommodated off- When the authors visited flight hours, but the importance pilots will get less training. base, they require an additional 15 Montijo, several Alouette III, of their mission is such that other At six million square kilometers, minutes. Deployed crews generally Super Lynx and Merlin pilots were Portuguese Air Force squadrons Portugal has the largest area stay for two weeks. At Lajes they evaluating the AW109. The AW109 have been hit harder. The number of to provide SAR coverage for alternatively work 12 or 24-hour

40 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 shifts, while at Porto Santo they are on standby 24/7 for the whole duration of their deployment. Lajes tends to get the most alert calls, due to tropical storms and its strategic position astride major shipping lanes between Europe and the Americas. Over the 28 years the squadron flew the Puma, 1800 lives have been saved (an average of 64 per year). In November 2012, less than 8 years after service introduction, the EH101 has already saved its 1000th life. Undeniably, the squadron is busier than ever, even on a limited budget. Pilots with previous experience on the Puma told the authors they prefer it to the Merlin when it comes to hovering over a ship, but they love the EH101 in all other aspects. In the Puma it was very easy to look down, whereas pilots are seated further away from the side windows in the EH101, making communication with the systems operator hanging out of the cargo door even more important during winch operations. The Merlin’s range of up to 400 miles, double that of the Puma, has been a major improvement. Several missions have already been carried out as far away as 350 miles offshore. Lieutenant Ricardo Nunes, pilot-in-command on the EH101: “Long-range missions bring planning to a whole new level. Every small factor can influence the mission. For example, if the sea state is worse than expected it might take a couple more minutes to rescue someone from a ship. You can imagine how this adds up if we have to rescue ten or more people. So, in long-range SAR missions a good plan is essential. We often fly OEI (One Engine Inoperative) profiles in long-range missions because it can give us a 12% saving in fuel consumption. When you have someone’s life at risk in the middle of the Atlantic, The Merlin is a very at night, in stormy weather, that can make a difference!” Another powerful helicopter, suitable pilot told the authors how the for both long-range SAR wind affects their range more than it does to aircraft, because of a missions and tactical flying helicopter’s relatively low speed at low level. and its non-streamlined design. On one occasion, they planned to do a long-range mission with a strong Several types of training are headwind on the way to the scene. On the way back the tailwind would always combined during easily take them to solid ground. a flight. Rescue swimmers However, the wind turned and they faced it again on the return flight! are frequently hoisted down They made it back with just enough onto sailing ships and into fuel, but it was a very close call. SAR crews comprise a pilot- the ocean to practice every in-command, co-pilot, systems type of situation they may operator, rescue swimmer and flight nurse. While the co-pilot encounter for real. directs, plans and executes actions related to the flight, the pilot-in- command is ultimately responsible for all decisions taken by any

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 41 Depending on the mission, the EH101's Pre-flight inspection. The fishery potrol versions are cabin is fully customisable with seats, equipped with loudspeakers. stretchers or both.

42 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 As soon as the EH101 reaches an altitude of 60 feet above the water, the cargo door is opened and the systems operator will prepare to hoist down a rescue swimmer.

As the salt is washed from the helicopter after All versions of the EH101 are The systems operator hoists down the rescue swimmer onto a a sortie, two rescue swimmers walk back for a equipped with a NITESUN moving ship and the rescue swimmer is hoisted back up as the shower as well. search light. EH101 moves away from the ship.

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 43 crewmember that will influence the taken care of by the flight nurse. operator and rescue swimmer to single flight, which can become course of the mission. The systems A typical everyday SAR carry out their training. Depending a little uninteresting for the pilots operator will guide the pilots over training mission lasts two and a on training requirements they will when it comes to hovering over a ship or drowning victim and he half hours and will see a crew of winch down a dead weight or the open sea for dozens of minutes. operates the winch. Of all crew four (usually without the flight rescue swimmer, with or without a Ship training never gets boring members, the rescue swimmer is nurse) fly out to the ocean, looking stretcher or a real-weight training though. The level of concentration the most exposed to the elements. for a random vessel willing to dummy. The same types of winch needed for it wouldn’t allow for He will be winched down with or cooperate with their training. As training are frequently carried out it anyway. Other frequent types without a stretcher, and he has to a rule, the Merlin will position at in the water and near cliffs along of training include tactical flying, bring the victims on board safely, 60 feet above the vessel moving the coast during the same flight, IFR and VFR navigation flights, often in non-ideal weather and sideways at the exact same speed as well as at night. Sometimes exercises with force protection at night. Once taken on board, if and in the same direction of the multiple systems operators or rescue and special force units, general necessary, victims are medically ship. This will allow the systems swimmers get their training on a handling and emergency training.

Esquadra 751 - EH101 Merlin variants Variant Registrations Role EH101-514 19601-19606 Search And Rescue EH101-515 19607-19608 Fishery Patrol EH101-516 19609-19612 Combat Search And Rescue

44 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 Monday morning 30 March the area, the scene was like a in a state close to hypothermia.” to hospital and the helicopter 2010, 06:35h, and 751 Squadron’s Hollywood movie. The sea was “Some others had in the crew takes a well-deserved break phone rings. A vessel named ‘Kea’ very rough with waves up to seven meantime been picked up by before returning home later that from Barbados, carrying 24 people meters. We found the Kea turned nearby ships. After rescuing two afternoon. The total flight time is sinking 170 miles off the coast of upside down, with the bow slightly more sailors, we initially decided that day amassed 8 hours and 30 Cape Finisterre, Spain (to the north raised and we could see almost the to remain on station looking for minutes. For this mission, the of Portugal). Ground personnel entire hull. The sailors were already two sailors still missing, but after Spanish maritime rescue and safety quickly install an external fuel in the water so there was no time consulting rescue coordination agency SASEMAR awarded the tank before ‘Rescue23’ takes off. to loose. We decided to go into the and due to the status of the sailors crew with the ‘Silver Anchor 2010’, Lieutenant Nunes, the co-pilot on hover immediately and rescue three already on board we decided to head but for them it was just another this mission, picks up the story victims floating in line, clinging to a back to Santiago de Compostela, day in which they lived up to their as they approach the ship after a cable. Their anti-exposure suits were where we refuelled earlier in the motto ‘So others may live’. • 400-mile transit: “As we reached filled with water causing them to be morning.” The sailors are taken

Main Pic: To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the squadron, the tail of one EH101 was painted in a low- visibility special colour scheme. This side shows a merlin (bird of prey) and the other side a puma.

Right:  Tactical missions regularly train with Air Force force protection teams and navy seals. 2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 45 Helicopter News

Speed record for EurocopteX3 pic Anthony by Pecchi

urocopter has announced a rather than level flight, also besting added to the main rotor hub – is based. This is more or less new pair of speed records set the X2's record in descent – by a which will be beneficial for drag identical to eurocopter-x3-hybrid- Eby its hybrid helicopter dem- single knot. optimization across Eurocopter's helicopter that notched up 232 onstrator, the X3 which reached a In a company press release, overall product range," he said. knots (430 km/h) in May of 2011. level flight speed of 255 knots over Eurocopter flight test engineer Otherwise, Eurocopter reports However, having amassed the south of France recently eclips- Dominique Fournier, who was a familiar specification for the more than 140 hours in the ing the 250 knots) HYPERLINK aboard the X3 during its record- aircraft that flew on June 7. Two air since its maiden flight in "http://www.gizmag.com/sikor- breaking flight, reveals how the adapted Rolls-Royce Turbomeca September 2010, it's thought that sky-x2-demonstrator-250-knot- extra performance was eked out of RTM322 turboshaft engines power the Eurocopter X3 will retire milestone/16424/" \n _blankset the machine. "These flights allow the X3's five-bladed main rotor before the year is out although it by Sikorsky's X2 demonstrator us to further explore the behavior and twin propellors mounted is possible that the X3 may live back in 2010. The X3 reached 263 of main rotors at high speeds, and on the X3's stumpy fixed wings on in the form of LifeCraft, a knots (487 km/h) several days enable us to make effectiveness which differentiate it from the high-speed helicopter proposed beforehand, achieved during a dive assessments of the fairing we've Eurocopter EC155 on which it by the European Commission. •

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AgustaWestland Multi-roleAW169 in 4.5 ton class AgustaWestland responds to the growing market demand for higher mission flexibility and multi-role capability helicopter in the 4.5 ton class with the AW169, a new generation multi-purpose twin engine light intermediate category helicopter. The AW169 has been designed to meet the most stringent needs of commercial and government operators worldwide thanks to its large cabin, high performance, advanced avionics and the availability of a large selection of dedicated state-of-the-art role equipment.

by Georgina Hunter-Jones Pics by Alan Norris

Flying the Cabri G2 Every so often someone comes out with a new idea for a light helicopter that will revolutionise helicopter flying with its cheapness, its ruggedness and its safety features; then the idea goes into R & D, attempts are made to gather Guimbal funding and slowly the idea and its practical application dies away. Very few of those ideas actually get even runo Guimbal, like Frank inson he brought this idea to his up to the prototype stage and even fewer get actually Robinson, was an engineer employer and like Robinson he put into production and sold. One notable exception, of Bworking in the helicopter found that his idea did not fit with field, in his case for Eurocopter, the employer’s schedule. However, course, is the Robinson R22, which led to a whole stable of when he had his dream of a small unlike Robinson’s case, but perhaps Robinsons. The Cabri Guimbal G2 is another. light piston helicopter. Like Rob- learning from it, Eurocopter agreed

50 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 to give Guimbal a lot of support, include the main structure, which by a rugged monofilament are light and have tip weights including the use of their research is made of carbon fibre with fibreglass winding ‘safety belt’ to keep the inertia high and to facilities and test rig. Guimbal took only a few uses of metal, such that will hold the rotor hub together improve the tip-plane path. full advantage of this generosity. as the fire-wall, the rotor hub, even if it cracks in flight. The The main rotor has three blades His first prototype was produced the engine, the fenestron tail and manufacturer says that this safety with a high inertia system. This in 1992, but that got no further and the skids. This use of composites belt has been tested by deliberately was designed to avoid the problems he returned to development, finally makes the helicopter light as fracturing the head, and then encountered in the R22 of a low bringing out the current G2 in well as strong, avoids corrosion subjecting it to 700 hours at 1.5 inertia teetering-head system. 2007. Since 2007 he has sold forty and allows parts to be ‘on- times the full design loading. The The G2 head has elastrometric helicopters, which between condition’ rather than time-lifed. safety belt extends the whole way bearings and dampers and has used them have flown 14,000 hours. The rotor-hub is an aluminium up the blades to the tip weights, the Eurocopter example of the Differences from other light alloy with magnesium forging for which it holds in place. As the star flex technology in the head. helicopters currently in service greater strength, and is surrounded blades are also carbon fibre they The G2 is the only piston

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 51 in every garage). Cleverly, if the battery goes flat and you are left away from home without a charger (something familiar to any owner of a mobile phone) there is also a mechanical method of getting in to the helicopter through the luggage hold. Once in, it is possible to start the helicopter using a code known only to the owner. Once flying this anti-theft device has to be disabled, which it does automatically, so it is possible to restart the engine in the event of a failure. The blades do hang rather low – so you need to warn any passengers, especially if they are getting out with the blades still moving. Although the pilots operating hand book prohibits start-up in wind speeds of 40 knots or more the Cabri is good in wind – we flew in 32 knots and I hardly felt anything, except when doing spot turns when it was a bit of a fight but that would be the same in any light helicopter. Three blades so as to avoid Above:  The landing gear is composite and because there are no oleos mast bumping and the dampers there is a damper between the are easily seen and checked. skids and the body of the G2. The engine is set in a ‘double redundancy space frame’. This Right: The engine is a standard Lycom- is a safety measure and means ing 360, fitted with one magneto that if two of the space frame and one plasma ignition system. bars are broken the helicopter is still serviceable to get you home. Moreover, Andy Moorhouse engine helicopter with a fenestron explains, “The mounting tail. In this case it is a seven brackets above the MRG absorb bladed fenestron, with a 9x the torque loading. The upper gearing with the main rotor. part of the space frame absorbs Because the fenestron blades are the transmission loads and the almost completely flat the blades lower part of the space frame move very fast and increase absorbs the flight loads.” the aerodynamic efficiency. As an added safety system While it is not surprising that the G2 has crash-worthy seats, a light helicopter with Eurocopter which were tested on a sled-bed. influence has a shrouded tail This is a first for a light helicopter rotor Guimbal enthusiasts and the manufacturer says that talk of the clear advantages survival can be expect in a fall of including its quietness; safety up to 2000 feet pm. There are two in a public environment and the places to check on a walk-round, reduced likelihood of damage one behind the seats and the other from the shrouded tail blades. adjacent to the door, where the However, on the downside, it is seat rails have a crash absorber. less powerful than the normal The fuel tanks are made tail rotor and has a different of Kevlar and were inspired usage range that is not linear. by Formula 1 racing cars. In Many parts of the Cabri G2 testing they survived a drop are made by outside contractors from 50 feet, fully fuelled, using moulds created by Guimbal and without spilling a drop. This includes the fenestron tail, The landing gear is composite which is made in two pieces and and because there are no oleos joined together in the factory. there is a damper between the I went to do a test flight with skids and the body of the G2. Cotswold Helicopters at Kemble, This stops a sympathetic vibration doing a walk-round with Andy occurring and causing ground Moorhouse and the flight with resonance: this should also be Chief Pilot Oliver Heynes. checked on the walk-round. As a bonus this damper makes Walk-round sloping ground very easy. There are no locks on the doors and The engine is a standard no key. Instead the doors open with with an on-board computer to your Cabri in the parking area Lycoming 360, fitted with one remote opening device like a car, recognise the owner. And, like a (no doubt Guimbal was looking magneto and one plasma ignition this includes a sophisticated anti- car, the key-fob will light-up the ahead here with anticipation to system. The exhaust opening theft sensor that works in collusion navigation lights so you can find the day when there is a Guimbal is in the roof of the helicopter

52 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 cockpit blowing upwards, possible systems. As a safety system for because this is a piston not a the digital box itself there are turbine engine and hence will not back-up lights if the screen goes damage the blades. The advantage dark and these are tested too. is that it makes the helicopter There is no Manifold Pressure quieter - the noise signature gauge, instead an electronic of the Cabri is 75.7 decibels at multiple limit indicator system with HS 400 Rotor max power, for comparison a a flow mode versus power mode, R22 has a 78.2 db level and the which shows a warning when S300 is 80 dbs. A fixed wing pulling too much power: a red Cessna 172 is around 60 db. square with 102% (for eg.) inside The clutch system is another flashes up on the screen to warn unique Guimbal factor. When the pilot. Thanks to this it is almost the clutch switch is activated impossible to overspeed the engine. a hydraulic piston situated in As this is a piston engine front of engine pivots the engine with a carburettor you need to downwards round a hinge in have a carburettor heater and the engine bay, this prevents in the G2 this is automatic, bending strain on the rotor mast. reacting to temperatures inside Walking around the back the carburettor. It is worth noting of the helicopter there is a chip that Robinson has had problems detector on the fenestron to check, with its own automatic carburettor which is a very simple pull out, heating, which suffered from and the gear-box oil level. the warning being disguised by It is noticeable that most of governor movements, however the parts are easy to get at and this one is said to be different. check, something that shows The clutch will not start up the designer had been a working if rotor brake is connected. One engineer himself and knew the massive belt instead of many small importance of easy access. ones but if it was damaged it would be possible to fly with some inches Start-up and flight out – in an emergency only. Once inside the helicopter, the There is a damper under the cockpit is noticeably wider than skids to prevent ground resonance the R22, though smaller than the this does make the Cabri a little S300 or the Enstrom 280FX with a see-sawey on start-up , it is actually width of 1.24m (4.07 feet) same as a rather reassuring feel, rather R44 and .12m wider than the R22. like being rocked in a cradle. We closed the doors as the The controls are normal, temperature was cold but in hot although the Cabri has a conditions the doors can be left off standard cyclic stick rather in flight without reducing any speed than the Robinson T-bar. limits. This is different from the JetRanger, for example, which has Actual flight notable differences between doors- The pilot sits in the right hand on and doors-off characteristics. seat, and probably the biggest Above our heads were the difference for most current light mixture and rotor brake and aviation pilots is the direction of behind us the circuit breakers. the blades – clockwise instead of I plasma ignition and one anticlockwise, which means right magneto have separate switches instead of left pedal in power- in the cockpit ceiling . on situations. Because fenestron The start-up procedure is not performance is not linear this does complicated but different and relies need to be thought about as well heavily on the computer and is as felt. Andy Moorhouse pointed actually quite intuitive, Moreover, out that while ab-initio pilots have to save on the cost and weight of no trouble with this, pilots trained fuel injection they decided to use on the American models find it electronic plasma system instead. quite hard to adapt to the new There are a series of ‘checks’ pedal thinking and they currently that relate to the computer recommend that while you are warnings. The digital screen has learning on a right tractor model it a list of every flight taken place is better not to fly a left tractor one. and whether any ‘events’ occurred We took off and flew across therein and it performs a self-test the Gloucestershire countryside. before start-up showing previous The cyclic is quite heavy compared flights, problems and the fuel to an R22, though similar to a

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2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 53 Many parts of the Cabri G2 are made by outside contractors using moulds created by Guimbal. This includes the fenestron tail, which is made in two pieces and joined together in the factory.

Guimbal G2 Dimension

SPECIFICATIONS General characteristics Performance Crew: 2 (Removable controls for left seat) Maximum speed: 185 km/h (115 mph) Engine: 180 hp (134 kW) Lycoming O-360 piston engine Cruising speed: 166 km/h (104 mph) derated to 145 hp (108 kW) VNE Power on: 130 kts @ sea level Average fuel burn: 38 litres an hour Range: 800 km (431 Nautical miles) Fuel capacity: 170 litres Endurance: 5.8 hours @ 55 knots Length: 6.31 m (20 ft 8 in) Service ceiling: 3963 m (13,000 ft) Main rotor diameter: 7.2 m (23 ft 7 in) Width: 1.24 m (4 ft 1 in) Height: 2.37 m (7 ft 9 in) Gross weight: 700 kg (1543 lb) Typical empty weight: 420 kg (926 lbs)

S300, but has the cocked-hat trim to discover later is something the on the cyclic (like the Hughes factory is looking at very closely. 269, now Sikorsky 300) which Turns were fine, although is extremely useful and takes the there is a tendency to climb. This, weight off well. There was some ironically, is due to the excellent vibration in the right hand seat, vision out of the front cockpit; but not so much as to make it having no impediments to vision uncomfortable, however when means there is also nothing to we increased speed to see if this relate the horizon to and some increased the vibration it remained early pilots have had difficulty the same. This was a surprise as I with pitch control because of this. Above: The rotorhead is aluminium alloy with magnesium had been told vibration increased However, again this is something forging surrounded by a fibreglass ‘safety belt’ for protection a lot over 80 knots, and as I was students who are not expecting a if the head cracked.

54 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 The Cabri has a stable hover even in a strong cross-wind

Above: Georgina Hunter-Jones hovering the Cabri next to instructor Andy Moorhouse.

Left: The interior is well finished off with a place for everything.

‘prop’ get used to very quickly. has a solid leading-edge weight in slowed to the hover. I had been the H269 and heavier so it is very It is noticeable that you steel and an additional tip weight warned that you need to watch useful to have the trim. Although need a lot of right pedal in to increase this inertia. The rate the change from forward flight there are moments of low pedal flight, which is different to the of descent was around 1500 feet, pedal position to hover and so work when changing from one type American models and a result of which is to be expected with the was thinking ‘feet’ in a serious of movement to another the feet are the shielding of the fenestron. Tail power to weight ration of this manner, but in fact it seemed a kept quite busy, but this is simply rotor machines have stabilisers type of machine and is less than natural progression and we were a matter of practice and getting at the rear, but the fenestron does the low-inertia R22 and H300, not in danger of any false swings. used to subtle pedal movements. not need these and this and the the latter of which descends at There was also a fairly significant To buy a new Cabri G2 relatively small amount of pedal 2000fpm. The autorotation felt very wind holding us straight. costs £240,000 but Andy needed in the hover is the result. controllable and, thanks to the trim, While in the hover we did Moorhouse explains that this is We did several autorotations it is possible to do it hands-off. We some quick stops, which were the consequence of such intensive and it can only be described as initiated go-around a little earlier nice but also require a fair testing and points out that while benign although you do need a as the governor has a decisive ‘bite’ amount of pedal work, some a new R22 is about half the fair amount of left pedal. The when it kicks back in and there spot turns and some landings. price it is also a throw away blades have higher inertia blades is quite a lot of pedal movement, helicopter that has to be replaced than the Bell 206, hence the good however this would not be an issue Conclusion: in 12 years, so as far as an asset autorotation characteristics. Their in the case of a real engine failure. It was a lovely machine to fly. The keeping its value is concerned the fiberglass laminated composite We returned to the field and controls are stiffer than the R22 or G2 is far more cost effective. •

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 55 By Mike Wright

We fly with h Red Bull’s Glen Dell Saturday 15th June was Top Gear day in Durban and I had a rare opportunity to fly with Red Bulls’ Glen Dell in the Extra 330 LC. When Glen phoned me on the Friday afternoon to invite me the response was a resounding, Yes Please!

he machine is the strong, nimble, it is a delight to fly in. amazing product of the Walter It was good to have an opportunity Extra factory in Germany and its to chat to this amazing aviator. He is a light on the controls extremely former World aerobatic champion. He Tresponsive and frankly it will break you raced in Red Bull Air Races, has won before it breaks (and is stressed to plus the World Aerobatic Championships, is and minus 11g) about that there is abso- senior training captain at SAA on the lutely no doubt. In Glens very able hands A340 with 30 000 flying hours to is credit

56 GA / Vol. 5 / No.8 / AUGUST 2013 When did the aviation bug bite? line of aircraft from Walter Extra. philosophy is safe transport at My father flew in WWII. Normal The certification of the Lycoming minimum cost. To this end, the fly trainers, Baltimores, Catalinas and AEIO580 engine allowed Walter by wire on their aircraft provides Sunderlands. After that he flew for to incorporate it into his latest a stable platform controlled (in South African Airways. In those days designs satisfying the markets normal operation) within clearly one could get up close to the planes incessant desire for more power. defined limits. The fly by wire which we did every time we picked In order to keep the weight down system will not allow pitch Dad up from Jan Smuts International. in this particular aircraft, it was angle, bank angle or speeds to be I was two or three at the time and fitted with one oil cooler. In the exceeded. Whether this reliance reckon that is when the flying bug bit. USA, pilots were struggling with on technology is a good thing or temperature issues but in South not is a matter of constant debate Red Bull air racing - this must Africa it was simply impossible to however statistics show that have been a huge event for you? operate. Although the performance modern Air Travel is the safest way The Red Bull Air Races were an was great, I could not fly the of getting to your destination. amazing event, extremely well run plane as I had my original 300L. and well presented. The demands on Extra worked on the problem but What is your favourite aircraft? the organizers and participants was because of EASA Certification I suppose all pilots would have high. There was a constant media issues, it took two years to resolve a favourite aircraft. There are so presence and pilots were expected the problem and re-certify with an many different facets to flying to be available to the press 24/7. additional cooler. All is well now though and so many different The RBAR certainly set the bar with though and it really is a good plane. aircraft designs to fulfil those regard to aviation as a sport and it is requirements. Big, small, fast, unlikely that they will not return. You are based at Kitty Hawk. slow (hover), stable, aerobatic etc. Tell us a bit about this field I could choose the best of each Your SAA career - you are Kitty Hawk is situated to the East of but there would be too many. currently training captain Pretoria and is probably best known on the SAA A340 fleet as the friendliest airfield in South Are you still involved with the I went through the normal path as Africa. It has an 880 meter long Slick 360 program - tell us a First Officer on the Domestic and tar runway, no landing / parking about the machine and International fleets and am now on fees, fuel and one of the most well your involvement. the Airbus A330/340. The Airbus run Clubhouses and Restaurants Dev Howett had a fuselage frame certainly has an interesting design and around. Probably the best breakfast and a wing mould of a Lazer/ operating philosophy. It fits in with fly in venue on the Reef. It is a Lazer type aircraft. I obtained modern airline transport requirements short distance from the general these from Dev and took the - safe A to B transportation at flying area and has little traffic. package to the guys from Aerocam. minimum cost. Sales show that the Most of the people that hangar at Francois Jordaan did the structural Airbus does this extremely well. Kitty Hawk are aviation nuts. design work and Chris Hattingh did almost everything else. The What about your early Your current air show program. idea was to build an aerobatic career - types flown etc. Where can we see the Red Bull airplane that could compete I learnt to fly on a Cessna 150 Extra in action this year? against the best for a fraction of with Ted Baines in Queenstown / Red Bull’s marketing program is the cost of what was out there at Grahamstown in 1978. I was 16 and well developed and targeted. Their the time. The Slick (with pilots at school. After getting my PPL and activations are mostly extreme such as Johnnie Smith at the matriculating I went to the SA Air sport orientated and often aviation controls) has won the Advanced Force and did pilot training there, centered as with Flugtag. Saturation SA Champs many times since, receiving wings in 1981. In 1982 I advertising however, is not where Red usually competing against planes did my Commercial Pilots License Bull wants to be, and consequently that cost two or three times more. and Instructors Rating in 1983. only three or four Air shows are flown The Instructors Rating gave me per year. I participate in around 24 Any unfulfilled aviation dreams? the opportunity to fly as much as I Air Displays per year however, of I have flown a J3 Cub on floats wanted and in some really wonderful which six per year are International. around the Southern States of the aircraft. There are about 275 of them USA and have now purchased now, from the J3 Cub to the Boeing Sponsors - how do you keep them? an Icon A5 Amphibian. I 747 and Robinson R22 to the SA330 Look after their needs, exceed intend flying that around the Puma. Besides helicopters, vintage their expectations. lakes of North America and planes and warbirds are my favourite. Canada when time allows. Your thoughts on fly by wire Your new Extra 330 - what are Fly by wire allows a philosophy Thanks so much Glen – catch you feelings of this machine? to be employed through a him at an air show near you. The Extra 330LC is part of the new computerized interface. Airbus

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 57 Piston Heads

Deliveries begin for world’s fastest ceftified single engine aircraft During June the Cessna Aircraft Company delivered the first production units of the Cessna TTx to customers following a ceremony at the Cessna facility in Independence, Kan. The TTx holds the distinction of being the world’s fastest commercially designed for advanced pilots with assist with the event. PAC is a displays and touch screen controls. produced and certified fixed- advanced technology and greater Cessna authorized sales center “Cessna has a versatile, reliable gear single engine aircraft. comfort in mind. The leather- covering the southwest United workhorse in the 208 and the “The customers will now wrapped side-stick control and States, with bases in Long Beach, world’s dominant flight trainer find out what we know, that the additional horsepower provide Calif., and Scottsdale, Ariz. in the 172, so it is rewarding TTx is an aircraft which will advanced TTx pilots with speed and Production line flow of the TTx to see an aircraft as unique and wow pilots with its performance, performance close to that of a jet. was announced in April of 2012 distinctive as the TTx leave the and surprise passengers with The speed comes with style, as the at the Sun ‘n Fun International Cessna hangar to round out our its comfort,” said Brian Steele, fit and finish of the TTx has been Fly-In and Expo in Lakeland, Fla. single engine offerings,” said Jodi business leader for the Cessna likened to detailing reminiscent The aircraft has a top speed of Noah, Cessna senior vice president TTx. “Everything about it is fun, of a luxury sports car interior. 235 ktas (270 miles per hour), an of single engine/propeller aircraft. fast and sporty, while at the same One of the customers accepting operating ceiling of 25,000 feet and “In true Cessna fashion, the teams time intuitive and comfortable. delivery is David Barnes, Chief an optional Flight into Known Icing involved in delivering the TTx The G2000 avionics are so Executive Officer of Watermark (FIKI) system, enabling pilots to to the marketplace have placed advanced and at the same time Retirement Communities. Barnes file flight plans allowing for varying quality and performance as top familiar. The interior appointments said he plans on using his TTx to weather conditions. The TTx is the priorities, and they delivered.” add a refined touch of class to travel between the 32 Watermark first aircraft to be equipped with Cessna provides additional the overall TTx experience.” properties throughout the country. the Garmin G2000 avionics system training for pilots in the TTx, due A high performance, all- Representatives from Pacific Air which features a glass cockpit to the additional horsepower and composite aircraft, the TTx is Center (PAC) were on hand to with dual 14.1 inch high definition capabilities of the aircraft. •

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n the 29th June it was Piet- flew the pants off this machine 2 performance again showed his for the show considering that ermaritzburgs turn too host even taking Ian Douglas and excellent airmanship. That knife one display by this machine Othe Kzn Winter Air tour and his Durban Skydive teams aloft edge he does in both directions consumes 200l of fuel. the day started with an impressive twice. The machine’s short field was awesome and an aviation Geoff Dyer and Noel Mc ‘rocket’ takeoff by Airlink’s RJ 85 capabilities are exceptional – photographers dream come true. Donogue from Light Flight had at 0830 from runway 34. Christine after dropping the parachutists it The aerobatic teams of Goodyear an impressive static display Smith, Airlink head at PMB had came down like a lead machine. Eagles Pitts (Dennis Spence, which included the newest arranged a live patch between Capt Warren Haslam with his Johan Van Solms and Neil Trollip) addition to their family being Timo Rebel and the Capital broad- Russian SU 29 with its Veneyedev and the Extra Harvards (Scully the Sling. The SAAF museum cast tower for the departure so the 9 cylinder radial engine and Roger Levin, Gavin Brown, Jeff Earle society was also represented. crowd could hear exactly what the Deere in his Zlin 50 provided and Sean Thackeray) gave their The car/plane race was a great crew were doing from before start good entertainment for the crowd normal polished displays. draw card, with Fed Air pilots up to passing 3000 ft. as did Michel Leusch with his Aso in attendance was the Luke Rattray and Jon van Duyn New for this show was Chris SU 29 who gave an outstanding beautiful Impala ZU IMP under in Chantelle Hickley’s very fast Briers in the New Zealand built display that included 3d stalled Mike Weingartz and owned by Mini Cooper taking on Dennis PAC 750 XSTOL and Chris work. Nigel Hopkins’ Cirrus MX David Laas. This was special Spence in the Goodyear Pitts.

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A. Yak 52 lining up for take-off. B. Eqstra Flying Lions lines up on runway 16, led by Scully Levin. C. Scully Levin with daughter Hayley. D. Mike Wright with Brian Emmenis. E. Light Flights Chief Flying Instructor Geoff Dyer. F. Fedair pilots with Fedairs Chantelle Hickley. G. Chris Briers arrives flying the Airteam PAC 750 XSROL H. Michel Leusch gives an impeccable performance in the Decathlon.

Chantelle arranged flights in the Fed Luke and Jon facilitated transport at lunchtime and the public were able and Deputy mayor of PMB. Air Caravan for the mayoral party to Richards Bay on 22 June. to see the aircraft and meet the pilots. Justin Scott head of marketing and some children. The Federal Air For the first time in It was great to see the of the Kzn tour was very pleased C208 Caravan is branded in Kzn Pietermaritzburg Brian Emmenis premier Dr Zweli Mkize in with the great crowd attendance Winter Air Tour colours and pilots opened the gates to the aircraft stand attendance as well as the Mayor which was larger than 2012. •

2013 AUGUST Vol. 5 / No. 8 / GA 61 Scully Levin and Brian Emmenis Skydiver boss Ian Douglas with Mx 2 pilot Nigel Hopkins Tom Chalmers (Airnews) and Goodyear Eagles celebrate 28 attendance of Fed Airs Chantelle Hickley. chats to crowd Leon du Plessis Capital Air. Glen Warden. consecutive Durban air shows.

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KZN’s Winter Air Tour By Mike Wright Carl Trieloff and CC Pocock and friend. Dr Clive Coetzee, one Stu Low - President Impala pilot Federal Air Pilot, Jon van Duyn with safety Chantelle Hickley of the organizers. Durban Wings club. Mike Weingartz. officer, Fred Bebington. of Federal Air. Stu Davidson’s P-58Sea Fury

Above: A happy Ayre team on airshow day. Top: Eclipse taking off for its display.

he past six weeks have and delivered plenty of exciting been very busy in Kzn with moments and numerous firsts Tthe Winter Air Tour doing at a South African air show. the rounds but everyone always It was evident from early on looks forward to the big grand that this air show would go down finale and this year's show did as the best Durban air show yet, not disappoint in any way despite with a completely revamped line-up there being no SAAF or SAPS that pulled in thousands of people. Airwing participation. The air show proved to be a The action packed program fun day out for the whole family offered spectators a full day of while also providing aviation display slots which saw a unique enthusiasts with an exhilarating day Above: R44 of Kzn Aviation taking off for a flip. mix of thrilling sky-high aerobatics, of aircraft displays with over 30 biz jets, war birds and much more. different planes and 40 pilots while two aviators and their teams break went down very well. A big screen was on hand and stalls and tents provided additional are based at Rand Airport. On the formation aerobatic front also brought the spectators closer entertainment that included a Visitors were treated to the we had the Eqstra Flying Lions, to the sky-high action with live flight simulator to compliment sight of not the usual one but two Gabriel Pitts, Good year Pitts with 4 feeds into the cockpit of some the aviation theme on the day. P51 Mustangs and as a bonus planes and team Extremes MX 2s. of the planes while legendary Stu Davidson brought in the Sea A great bonus this year was commentator Brian Emmenis Fury as well. I chatted to both Stu the presence of not only of former entertained the crowd with his What was different about and Patrick before the show on world champ Glenn Dell in his Red special commentary and vast this show? Friday afternoon and one thing Bull Extra 330 LC but also Nigel knowledge on all aviation issues. Scully Levin was interviewed was clear - they are both very Hopkins in the amazing Mx 2. The KZN Winter Air Tour by Brian Emmenis and it was passionate about aviation and Michel Leusch was superb team wrapped up their very revealed that he, Brian and of their 'air force' kept at Green in the aerobatic Decathlon and successful second annual air Dennis Spence had attended 28 Bushes airfield just south of PE. Radio Controlled jet while another show series on a high, as the consecutive Virginia air shows – The business jet park polished display was given by the Durban air show attracted the a very impressive commitment and the opening of the Impala flown by Mike Weigartz. whole city to the Virginia Airport when you think that these crowd line at the lunch time He and owner David Laas have

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1. Chris Briers in action I the military trainer PAC CH4T 3 2. CC Pocock in action. Bush Pilot bar none! 3. The Quest Kodiak flown by JP Fourie takes off for his display. 4. Menno Parson’s P-51 Mustang taking off. 5. Scully and Ellis Levin depart off runway 05 for their display. 6. Nigel Hopkins in the MX 2. Nigel has just become SA National Aerobatic Champion.

attended every Winter Tour show. raffled a Cherokee 235 with the An extremely unusual sight proceeds going to Reach for a at air shows over the past years Dream. The prize included training has been gliders but Virginia at 43 Airs school Port Alfred. broke that drought when a In the hotly contested Car 4 JS-1 took to the skies. versus Plane race Shane Botha “We haven’t seen a glider from SMG Rocks in a Mini beat at the air show for many years flying legend Dennis Spence in and spectators were captivated the his Goodyear Pitts Special by the silence, grace and beauty in a most exciting race. of this unique aircraft,” said Finally 13 parachutists from flight director John Neilon. Durban Skydive Centre ended off Gliders normally take off by the day with a jump which finished means of a winch or are ‘tugged’ up along the entire crowd line to up by another aircraft. However close off the best show in years. some gliders do have engines Keeping their promise to bring and the JS-1 in particular has a aviation to the people, the KZN small turbine engine on board that Winter Air Tour team also made enables the pilot to extend the sure that visitors came as close flight. Once a glider has gained as possible to the aircraft and the 5 enough altitude the pilot will adventurous pilots with planes lined exchange height for distance by up along the runway and pilots gliding to the next thermal source. interacting with the crowd and Said pilot Ocsar Goudrian - signing autographs. At lunchtime, Gliding is a relatively cheap way in another first for the Durban show, of flying and also very safe. About the organisers opened the spectator flying in his glider Oscar says, “It line and allowed visitors to admire gives me a great sense of freedom the aircraft up close, including the while also challenging my abilities. famous “Mustang Sally” P51D of A good friend once said it’s like Menno Parsons, 'Queen of Hearts' having a conversation with nature.” of Patrick Davidson and the mighty Dennis Jankelow and Associates Sea Fury of Stu Davidson. •

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August 2013 African Pilot 103 and into the aircraft interior. technology has been around Which all sounds great Aircraft Technical So any reasonably modern for a lot of years, and so it’s – but does it really work that flying machine is a sealed unsurprising that this is how most well? In truth, only partly. by Dr Guy Gratton space into which we keep aircraft deal with the problem Firstly I’ve learned over the pumping heat. That’s clearly of heat build-up. It’s still an years that apparently the cabin not ideal, and something inefficient way of cooling things, pressurisation designers and the needs to be done about it. so the natural ventilation will be air conditioning designers don’t In a small unpressurised used for the major heat areas – in really talk well in most aircraft aeroplane – say your typical particular engine ancillaries and companies. The cabin outflow Piper, Cessna or Robinson – or the avionics bay, which between valves are usually located just even something a little bigger them will often produce several under the floor which whilst like an Islander or Do228, this tens of kilowatts of heat – a single great for getting rid of unwanted

is really not difficult . You just seat fighter, full of avionics may be heavy waste gas – the CO2 we keep pulling cool air in from producing 50kW of heat from the all breath out, it rather ignores outside the aircraft, and hot air avionics bay alone, and an airliner that hot air rises. In an ideal naturally leaks out of the cabin whilst containing less computing world we’d probably have larger maintaining a reasonably cool power, isn’t much better –dumping outflow valves under the floor

environment. Some aircraft will all that heat into space is easily to get rid of the CO2 and smaller even let you open the window, the best thing to do with it. ones in the roof space to get rid of a portion of the hot air – but no, we just get the floor valves, and so have to expend a lot of energy running air conditioning pumps back in the tail. Oh well, it works. There have been other solutions over the years – the Stay Cool famous Supermarine S6b of Schneider trophy fame circulated water between twin skins of the huge seaplane floats, whilst the magine you’re in a powered later development Spitfire had aircraft – fixed or rotary, with monstrous great radiators, mostly Idoors and a canopy, one or for engine cooling – which less- more engines, and some combina- than-cunningly were located just tion of electrical and hydraulic behind the undercarriage doors so systems running through the that an aeroplane on the ground aircraft. At the very least there’s had to get airborne very quickly a pilot, but the odds are that there before the engine overheated and are other occupants as well – some had to be shut down to protect mixture of crew, passengers, and the engine. More recently I’ve even (hopefully invited) livestock. seen a few British designed small If it’s daytime, then as likely as aeroplanes, particularly in the not there’s also sunshine falling microlight class, which partly use on the airframe. That’s easy to coolant from the engine cooling imagine, because it’s probably system to heat the fuel line and most aircraft you’ve ever flown, or carburettor body, thus pretty flown in. much eliminating carb icing – a And in every one of those rare bit of cleverness, but only aircraft, all of these things create A heavy duty ground cooling unit preparing a passenger aircraft for flight from Tucson, Arizona. one that really works with a heat. Typically a human body liquid cooled engine of-course. generates about 80 watts of Another common trick heat – so a largish airliner with although the relatively high Within most cabins, what incidentally is to use a much 300 people on board that’s a speeds of an aircraft make this will be done is that a certain larger and heavier ground substantial 24kW of heat from the a lot less comfortable than in a amount of new air is passed based air conditioning unit to passengers alone. Flying above car so most pilots don’t use that into the cabin continuously, cool an aeroplane before flight. cloud or in cloudless conditions, ability unless it’s in something with leakage controlled through The reasons for that are simple an aircraft will see about 1.4kW particularly small and slow. two or more outflow valves enough – it’s a lot easier to keep for each square metre of fuselage The real complications come to maintain the required cabin an aircraft cool which started that so again for a typical airliner, in when you get onto pressurised pressure. A proportion of the air way than to cool a hot aeroplane. that’s hundreds of kilowatts, aircraft. The pressurisation system in the cabin however must also be The message however is which even with the normal shiny will be pumping air continuously continuously cooled, otherwise that cooling an aeroplane – its white-painted reflective roof into the cabin either from an the temperatures will soar and it’s engine(s), avionics, and cabin will be a few tens of kW making engine driven pump (most likely likely to be minutes rather than is most of the time, really really its way into the cabin. Every a pressurised piston-prop such as hours before temperatures become important. Fail to cool an engine electrical system on board the a Cessna C421) or more likely dangerously high. So normally properly, and it’ll overheat and aeroplane as well will eventually from engine bleed air (pretty some mixture of the air already in in extremis seize up; fail to cool turn most of the electrical power much anything with a gas turbine the cabin, and the new air being electronics properly and just it receives into heat – a little will engine). Either way this air will be brought in, is passed through heat about anything will fail; whilst make it into radio transmissions heated up by being compressed, exchangers, usually in the tail, failing to keep people cool results or light from lamps and displays, whilst also the flow of air out of which pulls heat out of that air in all sorts of nasty problems. So but most just heat. Pumps are the cabin has to be restricted, to and puts it either into external respect for cooling systems, not particularly dreadful, and although ensure pressurisation. The result air which will then be dumped messing about with arrangements bigger aircraft have engines well is a pooling of heat in the cabin out the back with all this extra and coolants, as well as making away from the cabins, smaller that unless you’re somewhere heat, or into the fuel, which takes sure that anything new going ones don’t and heat can make its very cold, needs to be dealt with. advantage of the extra little bit of into an aircraft has the ability to way regularly across firewalls Air conditioning as a energy going into the engines. be cooled properly is vital. •

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