Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 60 Issue 5

New Alloys, New Processes Advance Titanium Forging Application

DK Peacock

TITANIUM, in common with the other industrial structural metals, can be alloyed to improve property levels to match the design requirements of a variety of chosen applications…

Innovative Features in Design and Operation of Large VIM. Furnaces

G. Brückmann, H. Kemmer, F. Muller, H. Rupp, D. Schlebusch, O. Stenzel

The most stringent quality demands on super‐alloys and high‐grade non ferrous metals can in most cases be met only be state of the art vacuum melting and casting processes. Today…

Investment in Excellence — Electroslag Remelting in the USA and Europe

The high‐performance superalloys that are used today, for example in aerospace or nuclear engineering, have to be produced from ingots with purity levels that were unheard of some…

Landing Gear Production

HAVING supplied components for early versions of the Airbus 300 as well as the A300–600 and A310, Dowty Rotol was in a strong position to offer its expertise on the A320. The…

MLS Developments

Terry Ford CEng MRAeS

FIRST suggested as a replacement for ILS some 20 years ago, the time referenced scanning beam Microwave Landing System (MLS) was adopted as an international standard by ICAO in…

Safety Topics: Approach and Landing

Mayday

IT has been stated many times that a large percentage of all accidents and incidents can be at least partly attributed to human error. A study of total aircraft losses shows that…

DEA Streamlines Inspection for ML Aviation

FOLLOWING the installation of a DEA IOTA 12.05 coordinate measuring machine (CMM) at the Leigh Road plant of ML Aviation Co. Ltd., in Slough, inspection procedures have been…

Aircraft Hose Fittings Machined up to Four Times Faster

BEFORE July 1987, the Aerospace Division of Aeroquip Ltd., Redditch, had only a few conventional metalcutting machines on the shop floor, and subcontracted out most of its hose…

Equipment, Materials and Services

A number of new material combinations for flexible connecting sleeves has been developed by Northern Rubber making it the most comprehensive range available.

Contracts

CHAM Ltd., one of the world leaders in computational fluid dynamics, have recently been awarded a major contract by Airship Industries for ongoing consultancy work in evaluating…

News and Views

Allied‐Signal Aerospace Company's Garrett Turbine Company of Phoenix, Arizona has been split into two divisions.

People

GE Aircraft Engines has named Bruce J. Gordon general manager of the Small Commercial Engine Program Department, based in Lynn, Massachusetts.