Flight International – 11 June 2019

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11-17 June 2019

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thIs week

8 Trent woes ground Austral Dreamliner

9 CRJ joins Q for Bombardier’s exit door

10 Extended-range A321 starts XLR-ation.

Decision day dawns for Qantas Project Sunrise

11 Regulatory rift complicates Max return

AIR tRAnsPoRt

12 Jet’s demise sees SpiceJet running hot.

A220 sales push awaits Chinese certification

13 Embraer keeps faith in smallest E2 jet.

Spirit trims field to two for next big fleet order

14 Blade crack issue ‘unique’ to Trent 1000

15 Miami Air 737 overran after tailwind landing.

A310 damaged tyres in Yerevan runway incident

DeFence

16 ITEP work to resume after protest fails.

BAE guns for Malaysia Hawk update.

Bulgarian F-16 purchase given $1.67bn target

17 Boeing pursues international tanker, AEW sales.

Tactical focus drives interest in smaller Heron.

Saab scrambles Arexis electronic attack system

18 Viking to promote improved Guardian.

ScanEagle soars with new Asia-Pacific contracts

news Focus

20 Rafales fulfil mission at sea with gusto

BusIness AVIAtIon

23 Flexjet offers share of G650 by the day

24 Alaka’i seeks leadership of eVTOL space

Saab

BehInD the heADLInes

Our reporting team was

kept busy covering airline

developments at the I ATA

AGM in Seoul (P10-12).

And we travelled far and

wide to bring you our Paris

air show preview (P26)

next week GRIPen

Updates on Saab’s progress

with its E-model fighter and

GlobalEye programme. Plus,

a check on the Boeing T-X

volume 195 number 5690

Carrier-based Rafales reveal

their strength at distance P

coVeR stoRy

26 Paris 2019

Paris is without doubt

the most important

gathering on the

international aerospace

calendar – we bring you

45 pages of insight and

analysis ahead of the

show at Le Bourget

27 Grand affair

The 2019 Paris air show may or may not bring

the epoch-defining debuts or blockbuster

airliner orders that it has in the past. But as

Airbus prepares for life after its superjumbo,

Boeing fights to restore faith in the 737 Max

and Bombardier heads for the commercial exit,

some surprises are guaranteed

news

FeAtuRes

ReGuLARs

7 comment

80 s traight & Level

81 Letters

85 classified

87 Jobs

91 working week

Comac rises to CR929 development challenges P

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Regional revolutionIs Mitsubishi ready to take CRJ off Bombardier’s hands? 9 Show and tellOur Le Bourget preview has the hottest topics covered 26

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