Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 60 Issue 6
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An International JournalTable of contents
Real‐Time Systems for Space Applications
Ulrich Schwan, Hans‐Jürgen HerpelThe manifold and complex specifications for onboard software for different applications in space research, such as data processing, attitude control, and automation of experiments…
Erratum
This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb036431. When citing the article, please…
Computational Fluid Dynamics Program With Integrated Graphics
ARDENT Computer Corporation and Intelligent Aerodynamics, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, have completed an agreement to jointly market the first computational fluid dynamics…
Ferranti Launches Leading Edge Conceptual Design Tool
FERRANTI Infographics announces Pro‐Engineer — an interactive, feature‐based, parametric solid modeller — claimed to be the first real conceptual design tool to be introduced to…
Computervision's CISMedusa Software Plays Major Role in Satellite Design
A Computervision's CISMedusa CAD‐CAM system worth about £700,000 is playing a key role in satellite design in the British National Space Centre at the Rutherford Appleton…
Arrow Introduces Hypercube Computing into the UK
THE hypercube, perhaps the world's most advanced computer architecture, forms the basis of NCUBE Corporation's NCube/ten now available in the U.K. from Arrow Computer Systems. The…
Intergraph Announces Major New Marketing Initiatives
CAE/CAD/CAM systems manufacturer Intergraph is expanding its engineering workstation products line to nineteen models by adding ten more 32‐bit Fairchild Clipper‐based UNIX…
LTV's Tunnels Capture Power of Wind
THE answers are blowing in the wind—literally—at LTV's Missiles Division labs in Grand Prairie, Texas.
Dan‐Air Present and Future
Terry Ford CEng PRAesOPERATING a wide range of scheduled and charter passenger and cargo services to destinations in the UK, Europe and the Mediterranean area as well as to the Middle East and the…
Aerospace Manufacturer Cuts Production Time by 83 Percent
INSTALLATION of a Bridgeport BPC 380H, eight‐pallet horizontal machining centre at Fairey Hydraulics Ltd, Heston, Middlesex, has reduced by 83 percent, from six months down to one…
Safety Topics: Super Puma in the Shetlands
MaydayHAVING left Aberdeen and flown to two semi‐submersible rigs in the East Shetland basin, the helicopter was refuelled and departed for the return flight to Aberdeen with 18…
Aircraft Component Manufacturer Opts for Flat‐Bed Turning Machines and Operator Programming
THE inclined‐bed turning machine is almost universally adopted throughout industry, but the flat‐bed design still has its place in modern manufacturing. For example, Dowty Rotol…
Equipment, Materials and Services
The laborious process of producing half pressings and welding these has long been the process by which tight radius bends have been achieved on thin wall tube from exotic…
Contracts
The U.S. Air Force has awarded GE Aircraft Engines a contract potentially worth more than $34 million for work on the Joint Technology Demonstrator Engine (JTDE), which will be…
News and Views
Manufacturing and Consulting Services (MCS) is signing dealers and value‐added resellers for ANVIL‐5000pc™, the company's newest CADD/CAM software package for mechanical…
People
Cranfield Aeronautical Services Ltd announces the appointment of Mr. David Johnson C.Eng Msc, FRAeS, M.I. Mech E. as managing director.
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- Prof Phil Webb