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www.aerosociety.com August 2013 PPARISARIS AAIRIR SSHOWHOW RREPORTEPORT FIXED-WING AIR AMBULANCE ANGLO-FRENCH MISSILE TECHNOLOGY PILOT SHORTAGE TSUNAMI Elegant setting for weddings and special An extraordinary venue celebrations set in stylish Mayfair A choice of stylish rooms suitable for meetings and private use No.4 Hamilton Place is a classic Edwardian building which has an air of old luxury with a beautiful baroque staircase, opulent Louis XVI gilt cornicing, glittering chandeliers and our relaxing roof terrace with glorious views of Hyde Park. Excellent service with exciting menu options for all tastes Capacity for 10 - 300 guests Wi-fi internet access in all rooms Air conditioned Access for wheelchairs To make a booking or for further information contact Gareth Halstead, Events Manager on +44 (0)20 7670 4314 or email [email protected] www.4hp.org.uk Hi-specification lecture theatre which seats No.4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ up to 250 guests Volume 40 Number 8 August 2013 The 21st Century character of air power Flying for your lives The Sir Sydney Camm The special role of 12 Lecture, as delivered by 18 AirMed’s fi xed-wing air the then Chief of the Air ambulance service. Contents Staff Sir Stephen Dalton. Correspondence on all aerospace matters is welcome at: The Editor, AEROSPACE, No.4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ, UK [email protected] Comment Regulars 4 Radome 20 Awaiting the pilot The latest aviation and shortage tsunami aeronautical intelligence, A report on the second analysis and comment. RAeS/IATA training conference. 9 On the move The latest aerospace job 58 The Entente Aerospatiale Wake-up calls changes and promotions. — time for action Keith Hayward on the future 10 Transmission of Anglo-French defence In the space of a less than a year, two civil airliners land short of a Your letters, emails, tweets co-operation agreements. runway, one in Bali with Lion Air, the latest in San Francisco with an and feedback. Asiana Boeing 777 with the loss of three lives. What connects these two incidents? The answer must be airmanship, pilot monitoring and in manual handling skills. Though Features the NTSB is still investigating the crash at San Francisco, initial reports suggest that the approach was low and far too slow. Though there was no ILS in operation, the weather was clear and. barring an unknown factor such as a double bird strike, a visual landing should have been straightforward. Though the fatalities were thankfully low this time, this is yet another wake-up call that manual handling skills need to be 24 28 re-emphasised and given greater attention. The industry and stakeholders are already working to achieve this with new training Targeting tomorrow Gama — 30 years of Future research projects from progress concepts. However, the surging demand for pilots raises the spectre the Anglo-French Materials A look at the expanding that this level of quality will be diluted to fi ll fl ightdeck seats. and Components for Missiles worldwide business aviation These incidents are a warning. Next time the holes in the ‘swiss Innovation and Technology services provider Gama Partnership programme. Aviation. cheese’ safety model may line up completely to produce a far greater loss of life. Tim Robinson [email protected] 30 34 Apprenticeships reach new Age of extremes heights Report from the 2013 Paris NEWS IN BRIEF An overview of the modern Air Show. aero apprentice scene. Editor-in-Chief AEROSPACE is published by the Royal AEROSPACE subscription rates: Tim Robinson Aeronautical Society (RAeS). 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Printed by Buxton Press Limited, 54 Corporate Partners are available to view online on [email protected] Postmaster: Send address changes Palace Road, Buxton, Derbyshire 55 NATS Swanwick www.media.aerosociety.com/ Editorial Offi ce SK17 6AE, UK to IMS of New York, PO Box 1518, aerospace-insight Royal Aeronautical Society Champlain NY 12919-1518, USA. 56 RAeS Elections No.4 Hamilton Place Including: Europe’s civil UAV roadmap released, London W1J 7BQ, UK Distributed by Royal Mail 57 Society News Sweeping up space debris, Five daily blogs live +44 (0)20 7670 4300 ISSN 2052-451X from the 2013 Paris Air Show and [email protected] 58 The Last Word A400M readies for service. www.aerosociety.com @aerosociety i linkedin.com/raes f facebook.com/raes www.aerosociety.com AUGUST 2013 13 Radome INTELLIGENCE / ANALYSIS / COMMENT Aesthetics External styling and the futuristic look of the demonstrator were developed with help from Italian car design house Stile Bertone. Beyond hydraulics No hydraulics are used in the demonstrator. Instead the demonstrator's retractable landing gear, nacelle tilting mechanism and elevons are controlled by electromechanical actuators (EMA). Carbon-fi bre NEWSEntire exterior IN BRIEF surface is carbon graphite — produced by Lola Composities in the UK. Outer ??????wing ???? sections ???? ??? ???can also be ????? ????? ?????? detached for missions primarily ??????fl own ???? in ???? VTOL ??? ??? mode. ????? ????? ?????? ?????? ???? ???? ??? ??? Tilting nacelles ????? ????? ?????? Swashplateless blades are contained in tilting ducts for VTOL and ?????? ???? ???? ??? ??? conventional forward fl ight. Unlike a ????? ????? ?????? conventional rotor with a swashplate, each blade has its own dedicated ?????? ???? ???? ??? ??? electrically powered actuator to ????? ????? control the blade pitch. AgustaWestland 4 AEROSPACE / AUGUST 2013 First fl ights The demonstrator has already fl own in secret in VTOL mode. Its fi rst tethered fl ight was in June 2011. A smaller Battery power sub-scale demonstrator with the The Project Zero demonstrator is same confi guration has also fl own in powered by lithium-ion batteries. horizontal fl ight. An alternative diesel-electric powerplant is planned for longer test fl ights. Windmilling rotors can charge battery storage on ground. Remote control Despite the appearance of a one-person sized 'cockpit', the Project Zero is unmanned. AEROSPACE Electric VTOL dreams One of the most eye-catching aircraft on static display at the Paris Air Show was AgustaWestland’s Project Zero electric-powered unmanned technology demonstrator tiltrotor. “The aircraft was Italian, so it had to look sexy,” says James Wang, VP Research and Technology. The aircraft has been secretly in development with a small but international design team and was designed, built and tested in the space of 12 months. The Paris Air Show was its fi rst public appearance. Project Zero is designed to test technology concepts such as propeller blade control and no hydraulics that could be used in future tiltrotor designs. (See Paris Air Show report — Age of Extremes, p 34). @aerosociety i linkedin.com/raes f facebook.com/raes www.aerosociety.com AUGUST 2013 5 Radome AEROSPACE GENERAL AVIATION Siberian chopper crash A Russian Mi-8 transport fi re after crashing in the helicopter crashed on 2 remote Sakha region of July, killing 24 out of 28 Siberia in bad weather. people aboard, including Four survivors (three 11 children. passsengers and one Operated by Polar crew) were rescued in an Airways, the helicopter is operation that involved 400 reported to have caught people and nine aircraft. AIR TRANSPORT Tiger changes its stripes Asian budget carrier Tiger Airways has rebranded itself with a new livery and NTSB the name Tigerair. The Asiana 777 crash in San Francisco change is part of a revamp for customers. as well by the carrier’s Singapore- as drawing a line under leaves three dead based owner Tiger 2011 when Tiger Airways’ Holdings which includes Australian fl ights were US investigators are safely with180 injured. NTSB stated that the 777 more online services grounded for a week. looking into the causes Flight 214 from Incheon was fl ying well below its of the crash landing in South Korea hit the target landing speed. An of an Asiana Airlines seawall at the edge of attempt was made by the Reaction Engines gets Boeing 777 at San the airport after coming in pilots to increase speed Whitehall boost Francisco airport on 6 too low on fi nal approach. and abort the landing The UK Government’s spending review July. The tail of the 777 broke but too late to avoid the has delivered a boost to Reaction Engines Two passengers were off, ejecting two fl ight tail hitting the ground. killed in the crash and a attendants out of the back Asiana said that the pilot with a pledge to back its air-breathing third died later but the of the aircraft, while the landing the aircraft had rocket engine. The SABRE engine was remaining 288 passengers rest of the airframe spun nearly 10,000 hours fl ying picked out by Chancellor George and 16 crew members down the runway before experience but only 43 on Osborne as a technology programme the were able to evacuate catching fi re.
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