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Christmas Greetings from Aerospace Insight

Added on 23 December 2010 by Royal Aeronautical Society

At this time of year we would like to wish all Aerospace Insight readers Seasons Greetings and a Happy New Year.

Since the launch of this Royal Aeronautical Society blog in July, your readership has been essential in building it up into a ‘must-read’ aerospace digest. We wish to express our thanks for this support.

The weekly blog will return as normal in the first week of January.

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The Great New Space Race

Added on 17 December 2010 by Royal Aeronautical Society

In this controversial opinion piece, guest blogger David Ashford argues strongly that spaceplanes, not rockets should be the way forward for low-cost space access and, given enough will and resources, could be in service sooner than we think.

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EXCLUSIVE - Qantas QF32 flight from the cockpit

Added on 08 December 2010 by Tim Robinson

On 4 November Qantas flight QF32, an Airbus A380 outbound from Singapore, ran into serious problems when a turbine on its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine suffered an uncontained failure. We caught up with one of the five pilots onboard, who describes how the crew professionally dealt with the incident, the sequence of events, and how the most dangerous period was after they had landed.

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Air cargo - the weakest link?

Added on 03 December 2010 by Royal Aeronautical Society

As air cargo starts to recover from the recession, Richard Gardner looks at aviation’s most vulnerable sector.

This is a full article published in Aerospace International: December 2010

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