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VOLUME 182 NUMBER 5378<br />
forced to slow production merger has helped give<br />
of revamped jumbo if new EADS what it sought –<br />
orders fail to emerge 13 less state interference 22<br />
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19-25 FEBRUARY 2013<br />
COMMERCIAL ENGINES<br />
POWERING<br />
UP TO PARIS<br />
Partners in full flight to get Trent-engined<br />
A350 XWB airborne by June’s big show<br />
flightglobal.com<br />
HORNET DILEMMA 747-8 SLOTS ALERT FREE AND SINGLE<br />
AUSTRALIANS IN Boeing says it could be Ironically, failure of BAE<br />
TWO MINDS OVER<br />
FUTURE FIGHTERS<br />
AVALON PREVIEW<br />
INTERNATIONAL<br />
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COVER IMAGE<br />
This was taken as the first<br />
Rolls-Royce Trent XWB<br />
was delivered for Airbus’s<br />
flight-test A350. Our cover<br />
story, a programme update,<br />
leads an engines package<br />
that also focuses on CFM<br />
International’s Leap.<br />
See Cover Story P24<br />
NEWS<br />
THIS WEEK<br />
8 Split loyalties for new airline giant<br />
9 A330-200 eyed as Beluga successor.<br />
USAF refuses to reopen ‘flawed’ Raptor<br />
inquiry<br />
10 Turmoil as arrests rock Finmeccanica.<br />
Regulator searches for UAV integration<br />
test sites<br />
11 Booming sales prompt Mexico move.<br />
Airframers to fight soft market with new<br />
launches<br />
£3.30<br />
AIR TRANSPORT<br />
12 Rolls-Royce focus turns to A350-1000<br />
powerplant<br />
13 Empty slots could slow 747-8 output.<br />
Longer-range Superjet is airborne<br />
14 Crashed An-28 denied terrain warning.<br />
Aeroflot technical snags prompt Superjet<br />
defence<br />
15 Jat aims to revive latent Airbus deal<br />
DEFENCE<br />
16 SOCOM places urgent Insitu UAV order<br />
to fill critical gap.<br />
New Zealand’s NH90s clear testing<br />
milestone<br />
17 Russian Altius design is inadvertently<br />
revealed.<br />
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Rolls-Royce<br />
PIC OF THE WEEK<br />
YOUR PHOTOGRAPH HERE<br />
Keith Campbell gave this Panavia Tornado<br />
shot the title “Evening playtime” when he<br />
added it to his “sunshine band” AirSpace<br />
gallery. Our latest World Air Forces directory<br />
lists 119 Tornados in the UK’s fleet. Open a<br />
gallery in flightglobal.com’s AirSpace<br />
community for a chance to feature here<br />
flightglobal.com/imageoftheday<br />
Skimmer conversion kit offered<br />
18 UK reviews decision to retire Sentinel.<br />
United Aircraft chief urges full Medium<br />
Transport Aircraft contract<br />
BUSINESS AVIATION<br />
19 MEBAA offers to referee Rizon row.<br />
Chinese business jet fleet grew 40%<br />
in 2012<br />
20 Airbus Corporate Jets pins hopes on<br />
market rebound.<br />
Europe opens way to G280 deliveries<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
21 Rotor blade pressure may hold key to<br />
dynamic stall.<br />
Warning – weightlessness can ruin your<br />
eyesight<br />
BUSINESS<br />
22 Fruits of freedom for EADS<br />
REGULARS<br />
7 Comment<br />
42 Straight & Level<br />
45 Classified<br />
47 Jobs<br />
51 Working Week<br />
48 JOB OF THE WEEK Air traffic controller,<br />
Alderney Airport<br />
Proven and arriving soon at a gate near you.<br />
PurePower ® Engines<br />
Sunshine band gallery on flightglobal.com/AirSpace<br />
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INTERNATIONAL<br />
19-25 FEBRUARY 2013<br />
Eurocopter to invest $100 million in aerostructures facility<br />
in Mexico P11. US services issue new budget cuts<br />
warning P17<br />
COVER STORY<br />
24 COMMERCIAL ENGINES All eyes on<br />
XWB Rolls-Royce turns its attention to<br />
proving the maturity of the A350’s Trent<br />
XWB powerplant<br />
FEATURES<br />
28 COMMERCIAL ENGINES Leap of faith<br />
CFM’s A320neo engine has the edge on<br />
P&W’s rival offering, but the battle remains<br />
fierce as orders hang in the balance<br />
32 AUSTRALIA SPECIAL REPORT Fighting<br />
chance We analyse how the aerospace<br />
market is being reshaped in our country<br />
special<br />
NEXT WEEK HELICOPTERS SPECIAL<br />
Test pilot Peter Gray (above) runs the rule<br />
over Sikorsky’s S-92 in an exclusive flight<br />
evaluation. Plus: reports on the Bell 525,<br />
safety, aerial filming and the war on rats<br />
19-25 February 2013 | Flight International | 3<br />
Sikorsky<br />
Eurocopter, US Air Force