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SP's Aviation - ISSUE No 3-2022

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.