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Anything is possible – if you set your sights high.

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Yokoso irasshaimase – Welcome

If you want to aim high, you need to have goals. In this edition of changes our goal is to inspire you to new heights while learning a little more about our company, Mitsubishi Elec-tric. Hopefully over the next few pages you will find it is mission accomplis-hed!

In this second issue of our magazine we will once again be exploring a range of exciting topics. And we would like to introduce you to a few people that you absolutely must meet.

For example, the rocket builders at MT Aerospace, without whom the Ariane would not be able to budge a single centimetre from the launch pad. Or the Japanese national player and football champion Kozue Andō, who as a little girl already had her sights set on the Olympic Games without really knowing what they were. Or our colleague Jutta Karsten, who not only reaches dizzying heights behind the controls of her Cessna, but has also succumbed to the lure of aerobatics.

If you want to aim high, you will find lots of inspiration on the following pages.

We hope you enjoy this issue of changes!

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» The sky’s the limit if you enjoy what you’re doing!«

Editorial Aiming high

Franco Lacerenza Joined Mitsubishi Electric as an apprentice, today he is Head of Credit Management

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06 Aiming high – this issue’s featured topic in pictures.

14 Whenever an Ariane rocket blasts off, a bit of Bavaria blasts off with it. We visit MT Aerospace in Augsburg.i

publisher Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V., Gothaer Straße 8, 40880 Ratingen, Germany, +49 (0)2102 4860, www.mitsubishielectric.de, [email protected]

responsible Georg Jennen picture credits iStockphoto (p. 1) Thinkstock (p. 1, 2, 4, 6–7, 8–9, 10–11, 25, 31, 32) Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.

(p. 3, 5, 19, 20–21, 25, 27, 29, 30–31) Shutterstock (p. 12) Arianespace (p. 4, 14–15) MT Aerospace (p. 16–17, 18) ESA (p. 18) KW43 BRANDDESIGN,

Düsseldorf (p. 19, 22–23, 26, 28–29) Niels Meinke (p. 23, 24, 31) Lars Heyne (p. 24) Shotshop (p. 25) Stefan Telaar Photography (p. 27)

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22 Big in Japan

25 Sudoku

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Kozue Andō, one of the best women football players in the world, reveals her secret to success in an exclusive interview.

All aboard and fasten your seatbelts: aerobatics pilot Jutta Karsten takes us up above the clouds.

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Never heard of an eroding machine? Then it’s high time you did – because this is precision technology at its best.

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What’s high, and what isn’t? It’s all a question of perspective.

aiming high, higher, highest.

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Skyscraper. Built in 1885, the 42-metre-high Home Insurance Building in Chicago was the first and highest modern skyscraper in the world. The record today is 823 m.

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Bamboo. In ideal conditions some bamboo varieties can grow up to one metre a day. Some grow to a height of almost 40 metres!

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Castells. Simply breathtaking: the Catalonian tradition of the castelleres, who build human towers up to nine storeys high, was declared a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” by UNESCO in 2010.

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aiming high has many dimensions.

Doesn’t everyone want to aim high at some point in their life? We all have our own goals, which is why our cover story has so many different dimensions.

Aiming high can of course be taken literally, for example, if you think of a mountain climber who wants to reach a parti-cular summit. Little children also aim high, although they are usually satisfied if they are just lifted onto mummy’s lap. These two examples show that aiming high can mean very different things to different people, depending on what they want to achieve.

Aiming high is also a very individual endeavour, which is obvious if we look at different people’s goals in life. There are those who desperately want to get to the top of the career ladder, and others who decide to go back to school to finish their education. But regardless of whether someone becomes a CEO in record time, or manages to pass their school exams, they both deserve our respect.

If you decide to judge an achievement, you also have to take into account a person’s individual skills and abilities. For example if you think in terms of sporting achievements and look at different athletes, the achievements of Paralym-pic athletes often seem more impressive than the record- breaking performances of able-bodied sports stars.

Another goal of aiming high is to make people’s lives more pleasant and enjoyable. At Mitsubishi Electric we have embraced this goal and see ourselves as part of a long line of high-flyers striving for technical brilliance. From Roman viaducts to the tiniest microchip or the electric toothbrush: through the ages, a combination of the exploratory urge, curiosity, and the tenacity to solve a problem have led to inventions and innovations that have transformed our lives and made them easier. This is what we are aiming for, because after all, everyone wants to aim high. You too?

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From Bavaria to the jungle: technology from MT Aerospace blasts the Ariane into orbit.

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Zero tolerance.

Already 25 metres tall but far from finished: assembling the booster requires absolute preci-sion – tolerance levels are minimal despite its size.

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quatre, trois, deux, un, top – allumage vulcain. décollage!

DÉcollage, Blastoff: It's at this moment that the Ariane 5 launcher slowly and majestically lift s off from its launchpad and begins its journey from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana, into orbit.

The Vulcain 2 engine of the main stage was ignited just seven seconds earlier. It needs just fi ve seconds to reach full power. In the following two seconds all functions are

checked a fi nal time – it would still be possible to cap the fuel supply and abort the launch. When all systems are working properly, the twin boos-ters produced at MT Aerospace in Augsburg ignite. Together they reach a thrust of over 1,300 t. From this

point on there is no going back and the auxiliary rockets help the Ariane 5 blast off .

Four-hundred-and-eighty-two tonnes of solid fuel – mainly aluminium powder and ammonium perchlorate – is burnt off within two minutes of blast-off . Now, aft er just 129 seconds, the two boosters have done their job and detach from the rocket.

The Ariane is now 70 km above the Earth and moving at a speed of 2 kilometres per second in the direction of space. As it accelerates to a terminal velocity of 35,000 km/h, the two booster rockets plummet back down to Earth, where they will sink into the depths of the Atlantic.

At this moment, says Michael Servo, the pride he feels about the successful launch – despite all the hard work and eff ort – outweighs the moment of wistfulness when the boosters detach. Because if the rocket has reached this point, then everything has functioned properly and smoothly.

Michael Servo is a mechanical engineer at MT Aerospace in Augsburg. At the plant in Swabia he is in charge of the pro-duction of the booster rocket casings for the Ariane 5 pro-gramme as well as of the fuel tanks and tank fl oors and other high-tech components. This makes MT Aerospace, which supplies the programme with 10 % of its parts, the biggest ESA (European Space Agency) supplier outside of France.

Michael Servo has not yet had an opportunity to visit Kourou to watch the Ariane 5 launch, but he did see one of its prede-cessors blast off . But whether Ariane 4 or Ariane 5, the

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Precision for a single moment.

1 The assembly requires a lot of experience and absolute accuracy.

2 An immaculate tank floor – also thanks to Mitsubishi Electric.

awesome spectacle of the launch is always the same, as is the extreme tension and excitement before blast-off. When the engines ignite, when the deafening noise combines with huge flames, smoke and steam and the rocket slowly lifts off, the tension gives way to joy – a feeling that he describes as simply incredible, particularly when the earth beneath your feet starts to shake as the boosters are ignited. Despite a job that involves turning science fiction into reality, Michael Servo has his feet firmly on the ground at home in Augsburg. As production manager at MT Aerospace he is responsible, among other things, for the on-schedule completion of pro-duction orders and above all for the quality of the parts.

Quality, quality, quality – or fireworks worth 120 million.

The quality standards in aerospace technology are extreme-ly high thanks to extremely stringent safety guidelines. The success of every mission depends on the smooth inter-action of all the separate parts. “A malfunction due to quali-ty deficiencies would spell inevitable disaster both for the Ariane 5 project and for our reputation,” says Michael Servo. The launch alone costs 20 to 30 million euros, not including the aircraft: the Ariane itself costs about another 100 million

euros. Ensuring the quality and reliability of all of the com-ponents is therefore the biggest challenge for Servo and his highly dedicated team, because the components have to withstand the extreme pressure, enormous vibrations and high combustion temperatures of the launch, as well as the adverse climatic conditions at the edge of the Earth’s atmos-phere. This is why special materials are used, above all steel alloys and titanium. The booster casings are produced out of steel rings in so-called back-pressure rollforms. It’s like doing pottery with steel, says Michael Servo, but much more precise. A maximum of 0.2 mm tolerance is permissible for a diameter of 3 m. Durable high quality is only possible with this kind of precision.

Mitsubishi Electric also makes a small contribution to quali-ty assurance at MT Aerospace. Instead of laboriously cutting out individual probes, accompanying probes are simply moulded on a wire eroding machine of type FA20-S Advance following the heat and welding processes. The machine is fully automatic and can run unsupervised throughout the night. Because time is of the essence and the next launch of an Ariane is fast approaching. Then, once again, it will be allumage vulcai. Décollage!

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Eroding machines are not only used in tool and mould production but in any situation where absolute precision and accuracy are required, for example in medical engineering and aeronau-tics. Using the Mitsubishi Electric NA Essence machines, a surface precision and smoothness can be achieved with an arithmetical mean rough-ness (Ra) of just 0.05 μm (the average human hair has a diameter of 100 μm).

With electrical discharge machining, a distinction is made between wire machining (spark erosion cutting) and die-sinker machining (spark erosion die-sinking). Both methods involve an electrical discharge between an electrode and a conductive workpiece. This discharge process can be imagi-ned as a little electric arc, whereby a tiny piece of the workpiece is thermally removed in the form of a spark.

Die-sinker machining uses a pre-moulded electrode made out of graphite, which forms the negative of the mould that is to be eroded. It burns into the metal with a high voltage and removes any excess material. With wire erosion, an extremely thin wire with a diameter of just 0.1 mm cuts through the workpiece. With state-of-the-art CNC technology, the wire can be cont-rolled to cut up to six axes through the metal, ma-king more intricate contours possible. Because the wire also wears out in the process, it is conti-nually fed from a spool. A 10 kg standard roll of wire with a diameter of 0.25 mm has a working life of approximately 30 hours.

Thanks to their low running costs, excellent par-allelism and absolute precision, as well as short running times and high fl exibility, our eroding machines have become increasingly popular. Since 1964 we have supplied more than 53,000 systems worldwide, making Mitsubishi Electric the global leader.

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1 Wire machining.Here an ultra-thin brass wire cuts through a workpiece.

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110 matches wearing number 7 for the Japanese national team, 68 goals in 101 games for the Urawa Reds Ladies, the German Football Association Cup winner 2010 with FCR Duisburg and women’s football World Cup winner 2011: the attacking midfielder Kozue Andō has achieved a great deal in her meteoric career. We asked Ms Andō what it takes to make it so far.

Ms Andō, to become a football world champion you have to always score one more goal than the other team. How do you do it? It is important to know your strengths and weaknesses and to work on them. You have to have a goal, be ambitious and train hard every day. You can never give up and have to believe that you can do it. Even as a child I was desperate to become a professional athlete and to make it to the Olympic Games some day.

Is it necessary to start when you are three years old, like you did? No, not necessarily. I know players who only started when they were 15, 16 or 17 – although they did do other sports before that. But of course it is better to start young.

Who recognised and fostered your talent? My dad. He always played football with me. I just loved football, it was all I was interested in. That’s why I didn’t want to go to kindergarten. I only went after my mother insisted that I could play with the boys. In those days it was still very rare for girls to play football.

the will to succeed helps you fly high – and win medals.

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Success needs role models. Who were your role models? Also my dad. And the professional women footballers who I saw playing live when I was a little girl. When I was at primary school I would re-enact J League games. The Bundesliga was important, too, I really wanted to learn German-style football. Today I still watch lots of games and often go to see Schalke 04 play.

Which footballers do you currently admire? My favourite female player is a secret, but when it comes to the men I like the way Shinji Kawaga, Iniesta and Messi play.

Are you a role model yourself nowadays? Yes, I get a lot of mail from girls and boys from Japan, as well as from Germany, especially since we won the World Cup.

At the London Olympics you lost in the final. Are defeats also important for success? Defeats are also important because you can learn from them. In the 2011 World Cup, for example, we lost against England in the preliminaries, learned from our mistakes and then actually beat Germany in the quarter-final. We really wanted to win in London, but it didn’t work out that way.

Your squad number when you play for Japan is 7 – a lucky number in Europe: how important is luck for achieving success? Ability comes before luck. Fate will sometimes step in at crucial moments, but only if you’ve already mastered the game. But there is also always an element of luck when it comes to the teams and the coaches.

What tip would you give young women who want to be just as successful as you? If you ever find yourself facing a brick wall and don’t know how to progress – don’t give up! Keep trying and look at the way others are doing it. Then you will be able to scale that wall.

Is sporting success the be all and end all for you? No, of course not. Success is self-affirming, but family and health are much more important. Without them I also wouldn’t be so successful in my sporting career.

What is your next career goal? I studied Sport Science, focusing in particular on football strategy. I have now completed my doctorate on this subject. In the future I would like to become a coach – perhaps even for the Bundesliga.

Thank you for talking with us Ms Andō.

Kozue And .

Born 9. July 1982 in Utsunomiya, approx. 120 km north of Tokyo

Professional career:• 2002–2004

Saitama Reinas• 2005–2009

Urawa Reds Ladies• since 2010

FCR 2001 Duisburg

Greatest successes:• 2010 bronze medal and

top scorer in the Asian Championships

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World Cup winner • 2012 Olympic silver

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藤村みなみ、Minami Fujimura (28), teacher in Kyoto

Have you ever been to Germany? Yes, to Frankfurt, Mainz and Heidelberg. The towns were very beautiful and made a strong impression on me. I was quite surprised to see a few people kayaking on the Rhine in the middle of winter!

When I think of Germany I spontane-ously think of … beer. There are also a lot of Japanese football players who play in Germany. Of the German players I remember Oliver Kahn. Because I like fi gure skating, I also think of Aliona Savchenco and Robin Szolkowy.

A typical German is … somebody who appreciates being able to spend lots of time with his family.

Germans imagine a typical Japanese person to be … diligent, thorough and hard-working.

Intercultural encounters.

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Stefan Lysk (39), fi nancial advisor from Düsseldorf

Have you ever been to Japan? Unfor-tunately not. But I have a few Japanese clients. At some point I would like to get to know the country. But because of the kids, other countries have priority at the moment.

When I think of Japan I spontaneously think of … Japan Day here in Düssel-dorf with its big fi rework display, of course sushi and above all delicious Goma Wakame, a seaweed salad.

A typical Japanese … is reserved and conscientious. The Japanese cook great, healthy food and don’t have enough holidays – otherwise they wouldn’t rush through Europe the way they do.

The Japanese imagine the typical German to be … someone who wears leather trousers and drinks beer, has too much leisure time, lives in Munich in a half-timbered house and eats fatty foods.

Christian Stahlhut (36), owner of a tennis school in Bochum

Have you ever been to Japan? No, but I would like to visit Tokyo with its amazing architecture and fascinating mix of tradition and modernity. And I would like to try some “real” Japanese food.

When I think of Japan I spontaneously think of … cars and high-quality electronics, Godzilla and his colle-agues (e.g. Motta), samurai and zen meditation.

A typical Japanese is … small, hard-working and very conscious of tradition; at the same time a little eccentric – I’m thinking here of karaoke-singing and the people that dress up as Manga characters!

The Japanese imagine the typical German to be … assertive and consci-entious, reliable, humourless and disciplined

曽根妙子、Taeko Sone (25), music student from Shizuoka

Have you ever been to Germany? Yes, I visited a friend who was studying music in Mannheim. I also visited Frankfurt, Baden Baden, Freiburg and Berlin.

When I think of Germany I spontane-ously think of … the fact that unlike in Japan, there is an opera house in every city. I was also impressed by the number of organic food stores and how cheap it is to study in Germany compared to Japan. I was also struck by the many cycle paths and joggers in the cities. I thought it was great how many elderly couples walked around hand in hand.

A typical German is … very hard-working. Before I had only been able to imagine Germany in relation to classical music and storybooks.

Germans imagine a typical Japanese person to be … not very tall, conscien-tious, working long hours and not having enough holidays, and not being very good at saying yes or no directly.

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aaaah!It’s almost cherry blossom season in Japan, when cherry blossom festivals are celebrated all over the country, and the people of Japan follow the “blossom front” in the media, to find out how the blossom is progressing. The cherry blos-som season begins at the end of March in the south of the country and lasts until the beginning of May. When the blossom finally arrives, people meet un-der trees for Hanami or “blossom view-ing”, and marvel at the beauty of nature while enjoying a communal picnic.

boom!On 25 May 2013 the 11th Japan Day will take place in Düsseldorf. With over a million guests, this German-Japanese encounter on the banks of the Rhine is the biggest event of its kind in the world. Besides Japanese specialities, sport and music shows, visitors will get to see hundreds of ‘cosplayers’ in their colourful Manga costumes. The highlight, in the evening, is the huge Japanese firework display over the Rhine, during which real Japanese firework artists show off their skills.

ahoi!Mitsubishi Electric now also sponsors the German O’pen BIC sailing team. The O’pen BIC – which is only 2.75 m long, 1.14 m wide and weighs just 45 kg – has a sail surface of 4.5 m2, making it the fastest single-handed boat for children and adolescents aged from 9 to 19. The German squad comprises three girls and seven boys aged bet-ween 12 and 16. “With our support we would like to foster team spirit, sport and performance in combination with nature,” said Georg Jennen, General Manager at Mitsubishi Electric.

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sudoku.Fill in the grid with the numbers 1 to 9, so that each number only appears one single time in each column, each row and each block.

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lindbergh’s heir.

were developed, for example the turn invented by Max Immelmann, which to this day is still referred to as an Immelmann.

After the war, many military pilots were out of a job. As roaming aviators, they travelled from fair to fair and showed off their spectacular stunts. One who later joined their ranks was Charles Lindbergh, who in 1927 attempted the first solo flight across the Atlantic. While these air-show avia-tors attempted increasingly daring and breathtaking stunts, other pilots were more obsessed with the precise execu-tion of individual figures. This marked the beginning of “real” aerobatics. With technological advancements

The dream of flying has existed since time immemorial. To fulfil this dream, the early pioneers of aviation were willing to test the boundaries of what was humanly possible. Many of them paid for this dream with their lives, for example Otto Lilienthal. But even after the first motorised flight in 1903, these daring antics knew no bounds. In 1913 Igor Nestorov perfor-med the first aerial loop – in an aircraft with a fabric-covered wooden frame. Not long afterwards, Alfred Friedrich came safely out of a corkscrew dive – two figures that are standard in aero-batics today. During the First World War it became essential for survival to be able to control one’s aircraft in any situation. Other manoeuvres

and increasingly sophisticated aircraft, it gradually became a sport in its own right and is still hugely popular to this day.

Saturday morning, ten o’clock.

Today the sky’s the limit at the airport in Haltern-Borkenberge in Münster-land. The coffee from the Thermos flask steams in the plastic cups, but not for long, because it’s freezing cold on the airfield. But Jutta Karsten is in good spirits nonetheless. “Ideal flying conditions!” she says, and begins to check her Cessna 152 A. The A stands for Aerobat, because the plane is additi-

Jutta Karsten – aerobatics pilot from Gladbeck.

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onally reinforced compared to serial models. “A clear blue sky, it couldn’t be better,” continues Jutta Karsten. When it’s too cloudy you can’t see much of the landscape – then flying isn’t any fun. Amateur pilots like Jutta Karsten fly according to the visual sight rule. If the cloud ceiling is less than 1,500 ft (around 500 m) it gets dangerous. It would be too easy to lose one’s bea-rings in the clouds, particularly with aerobatics, where the 1,500 ft also forms a safety buffer between the plane and the ground.

Every flight is unique.

Jutta Karsten gained her flying licence in 2006. She never planned to become a

pilot, but when she had to make frequent flights to England for her employer Mitsubishi Electric, she discovered her passion for flying. Back at home she slipped into the cockpit of a friend’s plane, and has had her hands firmly on the control lever ever since. For Jutta Karsten, the huge appeal of flying is the freedom, which Reinhard Mey once sung about in his song Über den Wolken (Above the Clouds). When you’re up in the air you quickly forget all your troubles, she says. You simply enjoy the landscapes, which you redis-cover with every new season: powdered with snow, brightly hued when the leaves change colour in autumn, and always different due to the constantly changing light.

One of us. Jutta Karsten.

From trainee positions to managerial roles – exciting jobs and friendly colleagues await you at Mitsubishi Electric.

Find out more at www.mitsubishielectric.de

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The Turn.

Jutta Karsten’s favourite aerobatics figure is the turn. With this manoeuvre the aircraft changes at great speed from a horizontal to a vertical attitude. The plane climbs steeply upwards and slows down due to the earth’s gravitational pull, until it almost comes to a standstill. At this moment the pilot carries out a 180° turn with the rudder around the yaw axis of the aircraft. The aircraft tips over the wings until it is pointed down almost vertically. As it flies down it picks up speed and stabilises itself.

In 2011 Jutta Karsten got her aerobatics certificate. Again, it was fate more than anything else that gave her a helping hand. A flight with an aerobatics pilot kindled her desire to try something new. The usual “flight outing” had be-come routine: Jutta Karsten wanted more, she wanted to test her limits. While training for her aerobatics certi-ficate, she got to know her plane and its flight characteristics even better. She discovered how to control the plane even better in borderline situations. A spin – when the airflow stalls the wings and there is no uplift – was no longer a threat but a challenge that she was able to master with her skill and experience. It is in fact the adrenalin, the extremely

high demands made on the pilot and the aircraft, as well as the feeling of having everything under control that makes aerobatics so appealing. Not only do aerobatic pilots need strong stomachs, they also need to be concen-trated, calm and relaxed at all times.All of these qualities have helped the amateur pilot Jutta Karsten in her job, too. A certified industrial business ad-ministrator, she has worked for almost thirty years for Mitsubishi Electric. Here she supports her colleagues at the company headquarters in Ratingen as the SAP coordinator in IT Support. Her hobby helps her to stay calm in difficult situations and to keep on top of things if the server and programmes develop

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an unforeseen life of their own. Like in the air, it doesn’t take her long to re-gains control over all of the processes.

It’s about being part of it all – at least to begin with.

In 2012 the ambitious pilot discovered competition flying. She started in the category Sportsman, although many fi-gures cannot be flown with a Cessna. The air-cooled Lycoming four-cylinder boxer has an engine displacement of 3,823 cm3, which produces just 112 HP. It has a climbing performance of just

700 ft/min, and can reach a maximum speed of 200 km/h. This makes the aircraft’s engine much too weak for its class, and due to its wing profile inver-ted flights are not possible, which is ne-cessary for many flight manoeuvres. So it comes as no big surprise that Jutta Karsten came last in both the 52nd German Championships in Bavaria and in the Brandenburg Champion-ships. But both events were still positi-ve experiences. Her goal for this year is therefore a simple one: “Don’t be the last,” she says with a smile. Because when it comes to flying high, you have to take small steps – even as a pilot.

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Major airport, major challenges. The biggest challenge for the planners of the new A-Plus pier at Frankfurt Airport was not how to board seven Airbus 380s simultaneously; it was hidden between the suspended ceilings.

The more relaxed way to travel – with air-conditioning from Mitsubishi Electric.

The air-conditioning of the shops in the 185,000 m2 terminal complex presented the planners and construction firms with an almost insoluble problem, because the large glass surfaces of the pier let in not only a lot of light but also a lot of warmth. Extremely high passenger volumes of around 6 million people, as well as numerous safety and security aspects complicated matters even more. In order to provide optimal passenger comfort, standard solutions did not even come into conside-ration. After a detailed comparison of investment and running costs, a decision was finally made in favour of the Mitsubishi Electric air-conditioning units from the City Multi VRF series. As well as being very efficient and meeting the highest quality specifications, they also ensure optimal temperatures and airflow, so that a relaxing holiday can start in the terminal! Have a pleasant flight!

1 Robotic arms from Mitsubishi Electric pamper your hands: the industrial surface finishing ensures, e.g., that the inside door handles are pleasant to the touch.

2 At BMC Kosmetik, control technolo-gy from Mitsubishi Electric speeds up production: a new powder compact leaves the machine every 1.33 seconds following seven production steps.

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3 In Shenzen, Mitsubishi Electric is providing the 439-m-high Kingkey Finance Center with 55 high-speed lifts, including a 540 m/min super-high-speed lift.

4 At the luxury hotel Burj al Arab, 18 lifts from Mitsubishi Electric convey guests and luggage reliably up the building at speeds of up to 300 m/min and to a height of up to 280 metres.

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