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Beech130822 CEO-KA250_SP Aviation.indd 1 4/8/13 4:59 PM BAILEY LAUERMAN Beechcraft CEO KingAir 250 Beech130822 Pub: SP Aviation - April Color: 4-color Size: Trim 210mm (w) x 267mm (h), Bleed 220mm (w) x 277mm (h) table of contents vol 16 Issue 4 • AprIl • 2013 SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION ED BUYER ONLY) ED BUYER AS -B A NDI I 100.00 ( ` Aviation Sharp Content for Sharp Audience vol 16 issue 4 • April • 2013 www.spsaviation.net CASE STUDY NOVOAIR IAF MODERNISATION A TEDIOUS PATH High End FLIGHT SATETY IAF EXCELS F-35 /24199 MOTHER OF ALL PROGRAMMES UNMANNED EXPANDING ROLES RNI NUMBER: DELENG/2008 JETS VTOL NEW TECHNOLOGIES SP's Aviation Cover 04-13 Final.indd 1 30/08/13 10:41 AM COVER PHOTO: The Legacy 650 has three distinct DASSAULT FALCON 7X: OWNED BY THE cabin zones, wherein while some UBER RICH, THIS AIRCRAFT IS POPULAR work, others can dine or take a nap FOR ITS BREAKTHROUGH DESIGN AND EXTRAORDINARY CAPABILITIES Photograph by: Embraer TECKNOW TECHNOLOGY 10 Only One of its kind 27 VTOL Better Tech paGE 23 SP’S EXCLUSIVE CIVIL LEAD STORY 11 – Russia to revamp rotorcraft 30 Regional Aviation: Case Study strategy in India Brazilian Birds Sighted in Bangladesh – DRDO weighs unmanned 36 Regional Aviation rotorcraft development Missing The Mark JETS FOR THE UBER RICH – HAL to present UAV vision to They are high-end with all the Home Secretary REGULAR accoutrements of luxury living the growing – Imperial Eagle MAV ready for DEPARTMENTS breed of billionaires across continents user trials 3 A Word from Editor are known to live. During the 20-year period from 2012 to 2031, Bombardier 4 NewsWithViews MILITARY Efforts to Bring Transparency in DPP forecasts the large category jets to generate a total of 5,500 deliveries, 14 Modernisation 6 In Focus valued at $292 billion A Tedious Path Defence Spending: India vs China & Pak 17 Fighters 8 Forum Mother of all Programmes Nuclear Neighbours: Way Forward 20 Unmanned 39 Hall of Fame Forging Ahead Hugo Eckener 22 Safety 40 NewsDigest NEXT ISSUE IAF Records Lowest Ever 44 LastWord Office in the Skies Accident Rate Plagued by Uncertainty www.spsaviation.net ISSUE 4 • 2013 1 table of contents 17 F-35 Fighters PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DIRECTOR SALES & MARKETING Jayant Baranwal Neetu Dhulia SENIOR EDITOR SALES & MARKETING Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey General Manager Sales: Rajeev Chugh ASSISTANT GROUP EDITOR SP’s websites R. Chandrakanth Sr Web Developer: Shailendra P. 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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, photocopying, recording, electronic, or otherwise without prior written permission of the Publishers. WWW.SPGUIDEPUBLICATIONS.COM 2 ISSUE 4 • 2013 www.spsaviation.net A word from editor-in-chief AS THE IAF HAS INTRODUCED A SLEW OF CAREFULLY CRAFTED MEASURES, ACCIDENT RATES DURING THE YEAR GONE BY WAS JUST 0.22 PER 10,000 HOURS OF FLYING. THIS ACCIDENT RATE IS NOT ONLY THE LOWEST EVER RECORDED IN THE IAF, BUT IS ALSO COMPARABLE TO THE MOST ADVANCED AIR FORCES OF THE WORLD. WHILE THE MAJOR ECONOMIES of the world including India, left with no option but to depend on foreign sources for the lat- are grappling with the global economic slowdown and are explor- est generation of hardware which invariably comes at exorbitant ing ways and means to recover from the malaise, the world is cost. Writing from Goa, Joseph Noronha finds it difficult to pre- suddenly confronted with a new crisis and an ominous one at dict with any certainty the character of future battlefields except that, of the looming threat of war on the Korean peninsula. What that unmanned aerial vehicles, both armed and unarmed, will adds a completely new dimension to the situation is the possi- definitely play an increasing role, especially in South East Asia. bility of the use of nuclear weapons by North Korea against its In the civil aviation segment, R. Chandrakanth explores industrially well developed neighbours, South Korea and Japan, the dream world of high-end business jets and observes that thus possibly drawing Washington into the conflict. In the event despite the global economic uncertainty, the market for this of North Korea launching missiles armed with nuclear weapons, category remains strong. Even the business tycoons in India the possibility of nuclear retaliation by the US would be high and are not lagging behind in this race. Embraer has successfully near total destruction of North Korea a certainty. forayed into Bangladesh with their E-jets through a private The US B-2 bombers have already registered their presence carrier Novoair, opening up new markets and opportunities in in the Korean skies. In the event of the US joining the conflict, the region. On the subject of regional aviation in India, Joseph WChina is unlikely to remain a bystander. The consequences of Noronha concludes that the dream of providing air connectivity this part of the world being drawn inadvertently into a full-scale to the neglected population centres will remain as distant as nuclear war are far too horrendous even to be imagined. Hope- ever unless there are dedicated low-cost regional airports in the fully, saner counsel will prevail, the belligerent sabre-rattling by right numbers and locations. North Korea will subside and the anniversary on April 15, 2013, All these apart from the regular features in this issue. of the birth of the nation’s founder Kim Il-Sung, the grandfather Welcome aboard and happy landings! of the current leader Kim Jong-un will pass off peacefully, let- ting the rest of the world sleep in peace. Read more about this conflagration in the next issue of SP’s Aviation. In the first part of his article in this issue, aptly entitled Mother of All Programmes, Air Marshal (Retd) Anil Chopra traces the origins and the progress of what can be described as the most complex programme in the history of development of a combat platform, the F-35 Lightening II joint strike fighter (JSF) with variants for the US Air Force, the US Navy and the US Marine Corps. Air Marshal Chopra also focuses on the achievement by the Indian Air Force (IAF) in reining in the flying accident rate during the year gone by to just 0.22 per 10,000 hours of fly- ing through a slew of carefully crafted measures. This accident rate is not only the lowest ever recorded in the IAF, but is also comparable to the accident rates of most advanced air forces of the world. Undoubtedly a remarkable achievement. Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey provides an overview of the comprehensive modernisation programme that is under way in the IAF. He high- JAYANT BARANWAL lights the fact that as the indigenous aerospace industry has not PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF been able to deliver, in the interest of national security, the IAF is www.spsaviation.net ISSUE 4 • 2013 3 News with views NEWS: EFFORTS TO BRING TRANSPARENCY IN DPP Speaking at a seminar, Minister of the objectives of the defence forces for Defence A.K.