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CONTENTS

28 JANUARY-3 FEBRUARY 2020

Volume 197 Number 5720

Stratos Aircraft

THIS WEEK

8 Bombardier looks towards A220 exit

9 EC approval key to Embraer turboprop.

US Navy’s ‘lifeline’ advances as CMV-22B flies

10 Return of the Max expected in June, Boeing

tells carriers

11 Details emerge of Iran 737 shootdown

AIR TRANSPORT

12 Bek Air probe reveals safety problems

13 A380 makes way for A321 in Toulouse.

Airbus trials fully automated take-off system

14 AAIB warns Portuguese airports over

‘confusing’ terminology

15 A220 gains lift under new ownership

DEFENCE

16 Stealthy 5GAT has ambitious targets

17 F-35 passes muster as airborne sensor.

Flight-test Gremlins end X-61A debut with crash.

UK to increase Jupiter fleet

18 Delayed Defiant pushes the envelope.

Falco Xplorer begins airborne test campaign

NEWS FOCUS

20 Now back to the Moon, via Germany

BUSINESS AVIATION

22 Stratos starts 716 prototype assembly.

‘Tough year’ triggers slip in shipments for Daher

23 Farnborough breaks movement record.

Toyota funding offers lift to Joby electric air taxi

Airbus

BEHIND THE HEADLINES

Dan Thisdell travelled to

Paris to report on ESA’s

spaceflight ambitions

(P20). Meanwhile,

Dominic Perry and

Garrett Reim span up our

Heli-Expo preview (P24)

NEXT WEEK CUTAWAY

Don’t miss our double-

sided cutaway poster of

the Airbus A220. Plus, a

Singapore air show preview

Stratos pushes ahead with

first prototype 716 P

COVER STORY

28 Progress in

revolutions

Nearing the end of its

development cycle, the

H160 may appear like

just another rotorcraft –

but Airbus Helicopters

promises a step-change

in performance

24 From Switzerland, a new world order

Kopter is confident its much-delayed yet highly

anticipated SH09 light-single can challenge status

quo in segment by offering new levels of

performance not matched by sector’s incumbents

30 Vertical challenge

Strong demand for short-hop intra-city travel has

prompted Bell to switch its Nexus eVTOL to

all-electric power, with potential applications in ride

sharing and public transport

34 Are biofuels the future?

Aviation is a hard industry to decarbonise – with

demand for air travel likely to increase – but political

backing for sustainable fuels could have a big impact

38 Logical and ecological

With Solar Impulse, Bertrand Piccard showed that

clean technology can deliver a technical triumph;

now his mission is to convince business that going

green makes money

NEWS

FEATURES

REGULARS

7 Comment

40 Straight & Level

44 Classified

45 Jobs

47 Working Week

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Wor th HELICOPTERS

the waitWill H160’s arrival stir

rotorcraft demand?

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