global aviation services interior the interior designer pilots, crew, engineers and technicians through its Global Aviation Academy. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) takes responsibility for the airworthiness and environmental certification of all aeronautical products, parts and appliances designed, manufactured, maintained or used by persons under the regulatory oversight of EU Member States. This is a remarkable story of an engineer with a solid background and a safe career with Airbus, who became an award-winning entrepreneur supplying government ministries and Middle Eastern royal families. Öncü came to Germany in October 1979 to study aerospace engineering, first at the Technical University of Munich and then at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. Now a German citizen, the multi-lingual Öncü grew up speaking Arabic and Turkish at home, and now also communicates in German, French and English. He added knowledge and skills during his early career with DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (DASA) in Hamburg, which subsequently became EADS and later Airbus, progressing into
“We are equipping four Super Puma helicopters for a national Navy with dipping sonar systems, sonobuoy systems, radar and ESM systems, to enable long range search, location and attack of submarines in both shallow and deep water”
senior management positions. Along the way he trained in personnel management and staff training, learned presentation and communication skills, how to manage teams and conduct international negotiations, as well as adding to his professional development as an engineer. He also took on board the disciplines of six sigma and project management, as well as an understanding of financial issues and supply chain management. Öncü played a leading role in the development of the Airbus A380 as data processing manager and then from June 1999 as head of concurrent engineering in Toulouse, France, reporting to senior vice president Juergen Thomas. “After that I was seconded to the A400M programme, Airbus’s turboprop military transport aircraft, as head of the component management integration team in Bremen for the most complicated component on the aircraft, the centre fuselage.” The team consisted of six international component design build teams, with around 400500 engineers and related managers. “I was responsible for the delivery of the A400M centre fuselage in respect
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