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Advanced space system concepts and technologies

Air & space power journal

Virtual training : airlines often perceive staff training as a necessary evil rather than a tool to enhance efficiency, a new web-based training system, less expensive to operate than conventional training methods, bring better results

Galileo takes off : the launch of the first test satellite for Europe's new Galileo satellite positioning systems heralds the development of a wide range of new commercial and civil applications covering transport use, navigation, mobile phones and e-business

Agusta/Bell headed for success with AB139 : following a detailed market survey conducted in the early 1990s, in 1995 Italian helicopter manufacturer Agusta decided to make a significant investment in designing and building a new medium sized twin engine helicopter

Redefining Close Air Support : the recent Harrier operations, setting the pace for battlefield CAS with a platform that is still the world's most effective day or night precision bomb truck

Russia's regional jet in starting blocks : construction of Sukhoi's RRJ airliner, powered by a Snecma-Saturn engine, is moving into higher gear as the RRJ begins capturing new orders from airlines, well ahead of entry into commercial service

Cost and capability : in December 2005 the UK government published its White Paper on defence procurement policy which now envisages moving away from unrestricted open international competition to include a desire to safeguard elements of domestic industrial capability

Aerial warships : the rapid and efficient movement of equipment around the world to where it is needed by armed services has long been a challenge for military planners, one proposed solution to the problem involving ATG's SkyCat 1000 large airship design

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