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Number 3 - 2012
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s the only fast global air
transportation system existing
today, commercial aviation
will certainly survive all the crises due
to occur during this century, and likely
beyond, because the need for move-
ment and travel, by sheer curiosity or
pressing survival rationale, has always
been profoundly inscribed in the human
specie, and since the dawn of mankind.
With an estimated population
numbering 7 billion today, mankind
experienced its fastest expansion during
the 20th Century – rightly named “the
Century of Aviation”. Coincidence: just
about when commercial aviation began
to develop in 1927, the world popula-
tion reached two billion. It then took
only 33 years to rise by another billion,
reaching three billion people in 1960, at
the very time the Boeing 707 jets began
operating around the planet. Thereafter,
global population reached four billion in
1974, just as the frst Airbus A300 started
fying regular routes along with the
supersonic Concorde and the Boeing
747 jumbo jet. The fve billion mark was
reached in 1987, when the frst “fy by-
wire” commercial jet – the Airbus A320
– was about to roll. And then six billion
in 1999, the year Airbus, for the frst time
in history, sold more aircraft than Boeing.
According to UNESCO, the world po-
pulation topped seven billion in March
2012, just when IATA released its highest
transportation fgure ever: with nearly
3 billion air passengers recorded for
the year 2011 – 620 million more than
in 2006 – a vigorous trend gathering
momentum in 2012…
The race for more room in the air
Faced with constant air trafc growth,
and pressing environmental issues, not
to mention soaring kerosene prices,
European nations, like their U.S. counter-
parts, are engaged in an intense airspace
modernization initiative aimed at
bringing operational efciencies, cleaner
skies and fnancial benefts to opera-
No coração do programa Single
European Sky, o SESAR Joint
Undertaking permitirá que o
ATM (Air Traffic Management)
controle um tráfego 3 vezes
maior, cortando os custos pela
metade, e que as companhias
aéreas melhorem a segurança,
reduzindo também o impacto
ambiental em até 10%.
At the heart of the Single Eu-
ropean Sky programme, the
SESAR Joint Undertaking will
allow ATM to handle 3 times
more traffic, while cutting costs
by half, improve airlines safety
by a factor of 10 and reduce en-
vironmental footprint by 10%.
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O Eurocontrol e a Comissão Europeia estão
trabalhando juntos para implementar o SESAR.
Eurocontrol and the European Commission are
working closely to implement SESAR.
© EU
Protótipo do Airbus A320 usado para testar
os principais aspectos do SESAR.
The sharklet-equipped A320 prototype used to
test the main features of SESAR.
© Airbus
O Airbus A380 durante sua primeira visita
ao Chile sobrevoa Santiago no início deste ano.
The Airbus A380 during its first visit to the Chile
overflies Santiago earlier this year.
© Airbus
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Common
Aviation
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