VOLUME 181 NUMBER 5323
COVER IMAGE
Our first front cover of
2012 is graced by an
Embraer-sourced artist’s
impression of a KC-390
tanker, to which Portuguese
colours were added
by our senior editorial
artist Tim Bicheno-Brown.
See Portugal Special P24
NEWS
THIS WEEK
6 Chinese carriers in revolt over ETS
7 Wichita exit branded act of betrayal.
Lockheed lets slip sixth-gen concept
8 Emirates and Airbus pursue twin-track
safety approach.
Airline fatal accidents show sharp climb
in 2011
9 Boeing stumbles over 787 deliveries
AIR TRANSPORT
10 Arrogant captain sealed A321’s fate
11 MRJ ‘airborne’ as testing switches to
iron bird phase.
ARJ21 on home straight to Chinese
certification
12 A330 upset pinned on rare data-spike.
Short-cut pilots were lost before taxiway
take-off
13 Vital weight check slipped past crew
DEFENCE
14 Seoul signs production deal for 20
FA-50 fighters.
Pilots, protocols blamed for UH-1
flypast fatalities
15 USMC expands unmanned ambition.
Japan looks to the future with F-35
commitment
flightglobal.com
Embraer/Tim Bicheno-Brown
PIC OF THE WEEK
YOUR PHOTOGRAPH HERE
Joseph Cheung – AirSpace username Binky
Airways – posted this photo of a Belgian air
force Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon
at the UK’s Biggin Hill Air Fair in 2010. Open
a gallery in flightglobal.com’s AirSpace
community for a chance to feature here.
flightglobal.com/imageoftheweek
16 Riyadh advances F-15, Typhoon deals.
Lasta trainers join Serbian air force fleet as
service eyes more Mi-17s
BUSINESS AVIATION
18 Number’s up as final G200 makes way for
successor.
Embraer to ground test Legacy 500
19 Icing the key suspect inTeterboro TBM 700
crash.
Business jet activity continues to rise
Binky Airways Gallery on flightglobal.com/AirSpace
NEWS FOCUS
20 Piper has no laments for jet
TECHNOLOGY
21 Cold air key to single-stage orbiter
BUSINESS
22 Where now for American?
REGULARS
5 Comment
31 Interactive
32 Letters
34 Classified
36 Jobs
47 Working Week
36 JOB OF THE WEEK Head of Quality,
Jet2.com, Leeds Bradford International
Airport
I AM GLOBAL
FLIGHT
INTERNATIONAL
10-16 JANUARY 2012
Chinese airlines could face ban if they persistently refuse
to pay carbon emissions charges P6. K-Max unmanned
helicopter takes off in Afghanistan P15
COVER STORY
24 PORTUGAL SPECIAL Embracing
Embraer The Brazilian airframer is
shaping to be the saviour of Portugal’s
aerospace industry, setting up its first
overseas aerostructures facility in Evora
and sealing an industrial partnership on
the KC-390 military airlifter. We have
been to find out how Portugal’s
aerospace companies – large and small
– are preparing for the Embraer dividend,
what other projects they have been
involved in and how a political decision a
decade ago could have sent the industry
on an entirely different path.
NEXT WEEK SAFETY REVIEW
Last year brought a rise in the number of
fatal airline accidents, but a relatively low
fatalities total. We explore trends behind
these figures in our annual analysis
Access the free Interactive Business Aircraft Guide
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