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Paris Air Show: The future of aviation

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We’re at the Paris Air Show - a huge gathering of the biggest names in the global aerospace industry.

We will hear about the latest innovations in hypersonic passenger planes and how the sector can address environmental concerns.

Plus we speak to the defence sector about the latest developments in AI.

Presenter: Theo Leggett Producer: Hannah Mullane

(Image: People queuing to see an aircraft at the Paris Air Show. Credit: Reuters)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

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0:06.0

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0:08.4

One of the best.

0:09.5

But what a player.

0:10.3

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0:13.2

Hello and welcome to Business Daily, which comes to you today from Le Bourget Airport just outside Paris.

0:19.4

Normally, it's a pretty sleepy place.

0:21.9

It's old Art Deco Passenger Terminal, now a museum,

0:25.2

dedicated to the past glories of aviation.

0:28.3

But this week, it's been playing host to pretty much everyone

0:31.4

who's anyone in the global aviation and aerospace industries,

0:35.1

all gathered here for the Paris Air Show.

0:37.6

I'm Theo Legate, and in this program, I'll be taking the pulse of the airliner business,

0:42.1

now recovering from the chaos war by the COVID pandemic.

0:45.3

Now it's about delivering those airplanes one at a time.

0:48.0

So execution is the big focus.

0:50.6

We're doing it at a moment in time when the whole industry is having to really recreate itself

0:55.2

on the backside of that COVID moment where demand for air travel plummeted down by 92%

1:03.8

at the worst moment. I'll be looking at how the conflict in Ukraine has affected the way the

1:08.3

defense industry operates, and I'll be asking whether the use of artificial intelligence by the military could lead

1:14.6

to the rise of hostile machines.

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