Aviation International News senior correspondent Ian Goold has been involved in aerospace since 1964 and in aviation media for more than 40 years. He enjoyed a 20-year career at Flight International magazine, where he was latterly air-transport editor before turning freelance in 1993. A winner of the European Regions Airline Association Hank McGonagle award for excellence in aerospace journalism and a Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year global&nbsp;award, he has edited or contributed to aerospace and aviation magazines, special publications, and websites in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Ian entered aerospace as an apprentice at the British Aircraft Corporation at Brooklands (Weybridge), where he worked on production and final assembly lines of the Vickers Super VC10, and BAC One-Eleven , and manufacture of Concorde major sub-assemblies. He subsequently graduated from the BAC Design Training School to work in the airframe structures drawing office (including design of international future projects, such as the Panavia Tornado multi-role combat aircraft) before joining Flight International in 1973. Apart from years of reading aircraft magazines and books, his first direct contact with aviation media had come during the early 1970s when he was involved at Brooklands with the Weybridge Man-powered Aircraft Group, which designed and built the tenth aircraft to fly under purely human power. As an aviation journalist, he has worked at more than&nbsp; 50 of the major biennial&nbsp;global and regional international aerospace industry shows at Le Bourget, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai (having missed attending only one "Farnborough" since 1960), plus innumerable NBAA, HAI, (U.S.) AOPA, and EBACE Conventions and ERA Assemblies. His favourite aircraft is the Hawker Hunter, of which – as a schoolboy – he heard hundreds make their first flights from Dunsfold, where also on September 24, 2013, he saw the penultimate landing of the VC10 (happily involving an example of which he had witnessed the maiden takeoff in 1970) a day before the last example made the design's final flight (unless, of course....).

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Russia’s Sukhoi expects its Superjet 100 regional jet to fly for the first time next month and likely not enter domestic airline service for at least another year, program officials told AIN this week. That puts the troubled program some six months behind the schedule Sukhoi published last fall. Paolo Revelli Beaumont, commercial senior vice president of Superjet International, the marketing partnership established with Italy’s Alenia Aeronautica, said Russian certification will occur by “mid-2009” and European Aviation Safety Agency approval would follow about another year after that, in mid-2010.
Asked at the European Regions Airline Association conference in Malta if program delays were frustrating export efforts, Revelli Beaumont conceded that it was a “very complicated” situation. “There is strong [Russian] government support, which is positive, but that can appear like government involvement in the project.” 
He said that a “key” factor in stimulating export sales involved finding “a credible Western customer” willing to place an order for “tens” of Superjets from a major leasing company. 
Meanwhile, Antoine Chereau, Snecma product manager for the Powerjet SaM146 engine under joint development with Russia’s NPO Saturn, told AIN that Snecma awaits a go-ahead to deliver the next pair of units to Sukhoi. After producing eight production-standard examples, it is building a further 10 “compliance” powerplants, the first two of which Sukhoi has fitted to the prototype now awaiting flight test.

Latest Superjet schedule shows first flight next month

Russia’s Sukhoi expects its Superjet 100 regional jet to fly for the first time next month and likely not enter domestic airline service for at least anoth

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