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Out of the Blue: habit patterns for high performance, Part 3 It is 1am in London. I’m wide awake (my body still thinks it’s 10am local). I’m bored (stuck in a hotel room with very little to do) and I’m craving something sweet. I’m finding it difficult to adjust to yet another flight schedule. While

Cutting through the complex business of ADF fixed-wing It’s been a busy three years for the Aerospace Systems Division (ASD), one of the three key aircraft divisions in the ADF. Since 2016, ASD’s responsibility for managing the acquisition, and thoughlife support of almost all of the RAAF’s fixed-wing aerospace platforms and systems has seen the

… is the name of the game Airbus chief commercial officer Christian Scherer has sought to cast the airframer’s acquisition of a majority stake in Bombardier’s CSeries program as a form of innovation “in a business sense”. His comments were in keeping with the theme of Airbus Innovation Days, held at the company’s headquarters in

50 years on: how the A300 led an aviation revolution Airbus’s A300 may not look like anything out of the ordinary today, after 50 years during which some 7,000 widebody twin-jets have been produced by Boeing and Airbus, but in 1969 it started a quiet revolution that would drive the creation of a company that

The today and tomorrow of flightdeck vision The head-up display (HUD) entered service on military aircraft as a means of simplifying pilot operations. The potential on civil aircraft soon became obvious and systems were developed for, and entered service on business jets and transport aircraft. Continued development has seen HUDs fielded specifically for GA aircraft,