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DAY 1 DUBAI November 17, 2019 Airshow News PUBLICATIONS Emirates Airline remains the operator of the world’s largest fleet of Airbus A380s, and one of the airline’s super jumbos made a dramatic arrival at the Dubai Airshow yesterday along with the UAE’s Al Fursan aerobatic team. Technology Edge consolidates UAE R&D effort › page 34 Urban Air Mobility McINTOSH Dubai looks to be DAVID UAM early adopter › page 14 Airlines Saab eye in the sky debuts here Mideast carriers feel Max pain by David Donald › page 28 Making its worldwide public debut at the An initial order for two GlobalEyes was Andalucia, Spain, where the good climate Dubai Airshow is Saab’s GlobalEye, a mul- announced at the 2015 Dubai show, and a ensured that the aggressive schedule Defense tisensor “swing-role surveillance system” third aircraft was added in February 2017. could be met. based on the Bombardier Global 6000 Having been supplied as a “green” Global The aerodynamic handling and enve- Hawk assembly a business jet, for which the UAE Air Force 6000 from Bombardier, the first GlobalEye lope expansion tests are now complete, is the launch customer. The first delivery flew after modification on March 14, 2018. with Saab (Stand 1060) reporting that big step for Saudi is expected sometime in the first half of The second aircraft took to the air on Jan- handling is close to that of a regular › page 6 next year. uary 3, while the third joined the test fleet Global 6000, despite the alterations. Test The aircraft features an Erieye ER radar in on August 30. crews also report that the three aircraft a “ski-box” fairing above the fuselage with a GlobalEye features extensive aerody- all behave identically and in full alignment Business Aviation primary role of airborne early warning and namic and structural alterations from the with ground-based tests and computer- Qatar Exec is control (AEW&C), with a belly-mounted baseline business jet, requiring an inten- modeled predictions. Leonardo Seaspray 7500E multi-mode sur- sive trials campaign that was conducted In the meantime, mission system verifica- first for new veillance radar that is mainly used for sur- using aircraft number one. Following tion trials have been performed using the sec- Gulfstream G700 face search. Complementing the radars is an initial tests at Saab’s Linköping plant in ond and third aircraft, which were completed electro-optic sensor turret. Sweden, the trials moved to Granada in continues on page 53 › page 30 Where are your next pilots coming from? Right here. 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Images: 11255674C03_R0_787_10_Aircraft.tif (300 ppi; CMYK), Boeing_white_60mm.eps STORY INDEX Airbus ..................................6, 10, 16, 23, 28, 33 Abu Dhabi Aviation ......................................... 50 Aerostar Training Services ............................. 40 Air BP .............................................................. 46 Alsalam Aerospace .......................................... 21 BAE Systems ..................................................... 6 Bahrain Airshow .............................................. 12 Boeing ............................................. 7, 16, 24, 28 Bizav in Saudi Arabia ...................................... 42 Collins Aerospace.........................20, 24, 36, 38 DAE ................................................................. 49 Dassault .............................................................7 DCAA ............................................................... 21 DHC ...................................................................8 Diamond Aircraft Industries ..............................8 Dornier ........................................................... 38 Dubai Airshow ...................................................4 Dubai South .............................................. 34, 42 INTOSH c Dubai World Expo 2020 ................................. 26 Edge ................................................................34 M DAVID Ehang ..............................................................44 Embraer .....................................................16, 54 Etihad Airways ................................................ 52 Dubai Airshow powers Mideast aerospace Euramec ......................................................... 38 by Peter Shaw-Smith Falcon Aviation ............................................... 32 Flyadeal .......................................................... 52 The Dubai Airshow sets out today to give A321neos and recently signed for another outlook remains a little bleak. Flynas ............................................................. 52 the regional aviation industry a fresh sense 10 Gulfstream business jets, this time the The Dubai Airshow nevertheless remains of energy, as uncertainty over regional all-new G700 ultra-long-range jet, bring- the world’s number-three aviation event, Fursan Al Emarat ............................................ 26 security, flat load factors, and a dormant ing the total commitment of charter arm after Paris and Farnborough and ahead of GE Aviation ................................................18, 22 order book blights optimism. With Emir- Qatar Executive to the U.S. aircraft man- Singapore, organizers claim. “We’re playing Gulfstream ...................................................... 30 ates Airline likely to stand pat and Etihad ufacturer to 58 aircraft. host to 1,300 exhibitors…and of course wel- of late paring its fleet, the only hope for Elsewhere, the haste with which Saudi coming something like 87,000 visitors,” said Honeywell .................................................20, 21 major commercial aircraft orders this week Aramco has launched its initial public Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports. ICAO ............................................................... 52 appears to be Air Arabia deciding to pull offering, after years of prevarication, only Orders are the hard currency by which Jetex ............................................................... 32 the trigger on 100 new narrowbodies, if serves to underscore the growing threat the world’s four main airshows are judged, CEO Adel Ali deems the timing right. to the region’s dependence on hydrocar- and Dubai has seen a total of just under Jetoptera ......................................................... 18 As the president and CEO of Emirates bon income, as the global quest for, and $640 billion in cumulative aircraft deals JSSI ..................................................................44 Tim Clark launches perhaps his sternest debate on, clean energy and renewables since 1999, say the show organizers. Ban- Leonardo .....................................................8, 16 defense of the airline’s A380 strategy to quickens. ner Dubai Airshow years included 2017, Lufthansa Technik .......................................... 49 date—and takes personal credit for the One bright spot for Dubai has been busi- when total orders were just shy of $114 bil- plan since inception—it is clear that the ness aviation, with total flights through lion, 2013, when the figure reached $206 MENA .............................................................. 54 recent retirement of two of the aircraft for the city’s two airports jumping 26 percent