The private sector anticipates myriad uses for V-22 derivatives -- including executive aviation, disaster relief, medevac, short-haul transport, package express, etc.
"AirAsia will initially start on a low-scale but once they scale up their operations, I would expect them to be a formidable competitor in India, " said Kapil Kaul, the South Asia chief executive at aviation consultancy CAPA-Centre for Aviation.
The 52, 000-square-foot structure is a dream taking shape for Vern Raburn, chief executive of Eclipse Aviation.
In the newspaper report, 360 Aviation executive director Barry Oberholzer said he believed he was being asked for a bribe during a meeting with Ms. Mtshali, a businesswoman.
"Passengers have very few rights and many of the ones on paper are not really enforced, " says Paul Hudson, executive director of the nonprofit Aviation Consumer Action Project, which advocates for airline passengers.
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"The public wants this woman found, " said Ric Gillespie, a former aviation-insurance executive who for 28 years has run a foundation called the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery out of his home in Wilmington, Del.
Vern Raburn, a former Microsoft executive, has set up Eclipse Aviation in Albuquerque to make the Eclipse 500.
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According to Kapil Kaul, chief executive, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation India, the number of airline passengers is expected to grow nearly four-fold from 123 million to 450 million by 2020.
"You can't introduce an airplane so radically different without there being issues, " says Robert Milton, who in 2005 ordered as many as 60 Dreamliners as chief executive of Air Canada parent Ace Aviation Holdings Inc.
Furthermore, Bush said he was signing an executive order Tuesday that would make modernizing the aviation system a "priority" for federal agencies.
Peter Harbison, executive chairman of the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) also said further consolidation was likely, as the industry was "coming to the end of an evolutionary cycle" in which air travel had been dominated by national carriers subsidized by governments.
Chris Norton, a commercial pilot who also is executive vice president of Indianapolis, Indiana-based Expert Aviation Consulting, said a compressor stall occurs when the airflow is momentarily interrupted.
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