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SP's Military Yearbook 2021-2022
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SP's Aviation - ISSUE No 3-2022

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Issue Features

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    SPACE | MARS
    Mars is Active & Alive: Indian Scientists
    By Ayushee Chaudhary

    Indian scientists from PRL have found frequent seismic activities on Mars that indicate important geological action on the Martian surface

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    SPACE | ISRO
    75 Satellites Marking 75 Years of Independence
    By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

    Indian Technology Congress Association (ITCA) is playing the lead role in this mission for ensuring design, development, fabrication, testing and launching of the 75 nano-satellites, and is being supported by ISRO in the mission

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    CIVIL | POLICY
    Vision 2040: Roadmap for India
    By Isha Jaiswal

    Vision 2040 for the Indian aviation sector will improve the technical knowledge threshold of the nation and provide jobs to both technical and non-technical personnel

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    CIVIL | INDUSTRY
    Looking Back at India’s Civil Aviation Industry
    By Ayushee Chaudhary

    Amid relief, expectations, corona variant fluctuation, new schemes, changes in the leadership, shifts in the airlines’ ecosystem, 2021 has been an active year for the Indian aviation industry

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    CIVIL | CARGO
    Stellar Year for Air Cargo in 2021
    By Ayushee Chaudhary

    The data released by IATA for global air freight markets showed that full-year demand for air cargo increased by 6.9 per cent in 2021

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    CIVIL | CARGO
    Embraer Introduces E190F and E195F Freighter Aircraft
    By Ayushee Chaudhary

    We’ve just launched a new freighter programme that will right-size the cargo industry with E-Jets: Embraer

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    ENGINES | TECHNOLOGY
    Advances in Aero Engines
    By Isha Jaiswal

    The world renowned Pratt & Whitney company has toiled for less than two decades and has produced a brilliant technological feat named the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine series

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    BUSINESS AVIATION | TRENDS
    BizAv’s Flourishing Rebound Bids Adieu to 2021
    By Ayushee Chaudhary

    With 3.3 million flights from January through December, business jet traffic was 7 per cent higher than in 2019

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    AIRPORTS | INFRASTRUCTURE
    The Way Ahead
    By Air Vice Marshal Sanjay Bhatnagar (Retd)

    To cater to the rising air traffic in India, the Government and Airports Authority of India has been working towards increasing the number of airports

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

    The government has at last understood the importance of Civil Aviation sector and has rolled out a roadmap named as Vision 2040 to make India one of the best performing aviation hubs by the year 2040

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    HALL OF FAME
    Antonov-225 Mriya – Obituary of a Dream
    By Joseph Noronha

    Aviation enthusiasts and plane spotters, whose wish list invariably included the world’s largest and heaviest plane, will be sad that they will probably never see Mriya again

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    LAST WORD
    Restructure BA/GA Policies
    By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

    Despite the host of advantages that business and general aviation (BA/GA) has to offer, this segment of the industry has not received the required attention of the departments under the Government

  • NEWS DIGEST: MILITARY | ASIA-PACIFIC
    MoD Identifies 18 Major Platforms for Industry-Led Design and Development

    In a significant boost to ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ and in sync with the announcement in the Union Budget 2022-23 that allocated 25 per cent of Defence R&D Budget for industry led R&D, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)...

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    NEWS DIGEST: MILITARY | ASIA-PACIFIC
    India and US Hold 19th Military Cooperation Meeting

    The 19th edition of India-US Military Cooperation Group (MCG) meeting was held in Agra, on March 1-2, 2022. The meeting was co-chaired by Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) Air Marshal B.R. Krishna from the Indian side...

  • NEWS DIGEST: MILITARY | ASIA-PACIFIC
    Government Invites Applications from Drone Industry for Production Linked Incentive

    It was reported on March 11, 2022 that the Government has invited applications from drone industry for Production Linked Incentive (PLI).

  • NEWS DIGEST: MILITARY | ASIA-PACIFIC
    Scheduled Commercial International Passenger Services to/from India to Resume from March 27, 2022

    In order to prevent spread of COVID-19, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation had suspended operations of scheduled international commercial passenger services to/from India with effect from March 23, 2020.

  • NEWS DIGEST
    QuickRoundUp

    Upgradation and modernisation of airports is a continuous process and is undertaken by Airports Authority of India (AAI) and other Airport Developers.