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SP's Aviation - ISSUE No 12-09

Issue Features

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  Chandrayaan-I - Moon Mission
  By Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. Bhatia

  Among the many accomplishments of Chandrayaan-I, its biggest discovery perhaps was to find hydroxyl and water molecules on the lunar surface

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  Dubai Airshow - Antidote to Downturn
  

  With the aerospace industry in disarray and the media insistent that the Dubai bubble has burst...
  
  (SP’s Aviation, December 2009, Pg 26)

• Problems, Reforms & Role of Air Power
  By Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. Bhatia

  Intelligence gathering and post-event investigation are but two facets of the entire gamut of anti-terror capabilities. What is also needed is to create comprehensive preventive and counter-terrorism capabilities.

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  VLJS - Light up the Sky
  

  Arguably the world’s first Very Light Jet (VLJ), the Eclipse 500 was frequently cited at the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Corporate, Air Taxi & Personal Jets conference held in London on March 18 and 19.
  
  (SP’s Aviation, Issue 3/2009, Pg 8)

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  Business Aviation - Mid-Size Marvel
  

  A medium—or mid-size—business jet, as the term is generally used, is one which offers much of the utility of the large jets...
  
  (SP’s Aviation, Issue 2/2009, Pg 11)

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  Safety - Feathers Strike Fear
  

  A tiny spot appears on the horizon, closes in with startling rapidity and WHAM! Sometimes the bird emerges undetected from the dust or smoke-filled air.
  
  (SP’s Airbuz, Issue 2/2009, Pg 8)

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  General Aviation - Come, Fly a Plane
  

  Light sport aircraft (LSA) are good news for wannabe pilots who fear that flying might be too difficult, as well as for experienced pilots who secretly long for that ‘free as a bird’ feeling.
  
  (SP’s Airbuz, August-September 2009, Pg 8)

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  MRO - Forging Ahead
  

  India’s commercial aviation boom from 2003 to 2008 occurred without proportional growth in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities.
  
  (SP’s Airbuz, October-November 2009, Pg 9)

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  Environment - A Lifelong Commitment
  

  Each day brings more dire predictions on climate change. Emissions are growing faster than what most scientists had forecast...
  
  (SP’s Airbuz, Issue 1/2009, Pg 10)

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  A Word from Editor
  By Jayant Baranwal - Publisher & Editor-in-Chief

• Beyond Believe
  By Air Marshal (Retd) B.K. Pandey

• ’09 Year-End Special
  

  SP’s Aviation presents a collection of a few important and pertinent moments from its archive of 2009