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DUBAI: Russia’s Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company, a maker of regional jets, plans to lift production more than three-fold by 2020, banking on demand from at least five Middle East customers, a senior executive said on Sunday.

Sukhoi is in talks with Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman for sales of its Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ 100), Evgeny Andrachnikov, senior vice president, told Reuters at the Dubai Airshow.

“By 2020, we will have critical mass of 200 aircraft (produced annually). We are in serious talks with many clients including in the Middle East with Egypt a big ticket game,” he said. Currently, Sukhoi’s production capacity is 60 jets annually.

He said Egypt Air is a potential client after Egyptian president Sisi visited Moscow and held discussions, among other things, about Sukhoi with his counterpart, Putin.

“There is clear indication of interest,” he said. If the order is firmed up, it would be Sukhoi’s first in the Middle East, he said, adding that Iran, a big market is also a potential customer for a big order.

Sukhoi is aggressively pushing exports, in part, due to a mandate from the government to sell 30 planes annually. Domestic demand is incapable of consuming that, compelling Sukhoi to look beyond Russia.

Sukhoi is targeting the Pacific Rim, Africa, Latin America and Australia for sales of its jets, Andrachnikov said.

Sukhoi is also working on a 120-seater model as well as business jets to cater for Middle East markets. Its business jets operate currently only in Russia bit with

Article source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/international/russia-sukhoi-plans-to-tr/2246802.html

As one of the leading manufacturers of jet engines in the world, Rolls-Royce is one of a handful of industry leaders who have been responsible for more companies adopting 3D printing into their manufacturing process. The company has been building engines for aircraft for more than a century, and this week the company just made history by flying an Airbus passenger airplane using the most powerful jet engine that they have ever made. And the record breaking amount of thrust that their new engine produces was made possible thanks to a set of advanced aerofoils that were 3D printed using cutting-edge additive manufacturing technology.

The Trent XWB series of turbofan jet engines has widely been regarded as one of the most reliable and efficient civilian jet engines available on the market for nearly a decade. It is also the fastest-selling wide-body jet engine, having sold more than 1,500 engines to more than 40 individual customers. Currently Rolls-Royce exclusively supplies engines for the Airbus A350 XWB (extra wide body) and they have continually been pushing the limits of what the engine can do in order to keep up with new Airbus models by increasing both its power and reliability since the original Trent 1000 was released.

The newest model under development is the Trent XWB-97 which is being designed to power a larger version of the Airbus A350 XWB called the A350-1000, that is expected to

Article source: http://3dprint.com/104518/rollsroyce-powerful-jet-engine/

There is a huge global company in Stockholm called “Universum” that surveys over 400,000 students and professionals each year. Experts at the Swedish brain trust claim the top five traits to making a good hire are professional, high energy, confidence, self-monitoring and intellectual curiosity.  Another source, Inc. magazine, believes the top five things employers must look for are accountability, flexibility, creativity, communication and passion.

Yet the most perplexing task facing every company in America, whether it has five employees or 5,000, is how an employer can successfully determine if a potential new hire has the key traits that the most successful people do.

“You can take the most well-educated, clean cut, promising person and it is still a guess and a gamble,” Dr. Steve Byrum told me last week, “but I have a way that has shown consistently it will tell you about a person’s judgment and values in about 15 minutes and I prove it every day.”

Understand, I’m not into a lot of hokey-pokey, voodoo, Meyers Briggs tests or those “intelligence” tests. They make me nervous. But corporate America spends millions every year in its search for the best job candidates. I just became fascinated in the process because of David Longley, the former Baylor coach, and the fact I have appreciated him for nearly 50 years.

In a casual conversation not long ago, the former Vanderbilt quarterback was telling me about a revolutionary hiring tool that can determine the judgment ability and the values content

Article source: http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/11/9/312170/Roy-Exum-Why-Not-Hire-Judgment.aspx

Will California’s high-speed rail system be German enough?

That question is not a joke, as I learned last month while riding Germany’s popular high-speed rail. In fact, it’s a more important question than the ones Californians have been myopically asking for years about the costs, funding and construction deadlines of the state’s controversial project.

The value of high-speed rail does not lie in the cost or speed of trains, but rather in the ability of such projects to anchor deep connections – between transportation hubs, between cultural attractions, between cities, between job sites. And German high-speed rail, while far from perfect, excels at creating fast and efficient connections.

A report on planning high-speed rail says the ideal is center city stations where connections are “as simple, short, seamless, intuitive, and pleasant as possible.”

The secret is in German stations, which serve not only as hubs for various types of transportation, but also as vital public spaces that connect a variety of institutions and provide space for people to gather, shop and be entertained. (The Leipzig Main Station even has a pet store and a supermarket). Many stations are built as bridges – over railroad tracks, highways, or other barriers – so they literally connect different parts of cities.

If California high-speed rail can reproduce the German style and create a system that deeply binds the state together – and that’s a big if – then even a $100 billion project might be a bargain. But if high-speed rail can’t connect different modes of

Article source: http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/op-ed/article42947634.html