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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 />

<strong>FLIGHT</strong><br />

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

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