Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 62 Issue 3
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Metcut '90 — Engineering Showcase of the Machine Tool Industry
METCUT is the machine tool and manufacturing technology exhibition, held every four years and organised by the Machine Tool Technologies Association (MTTA).
Aircraft Generators Produced Twice as Quickly: Stand No 5223
THE floor‐to‐floor time to manufacture component parts for an aircraft generator has been halved from one year to six months at the Power Systems Division of Lucas Aerospace…
Rebuild Specialist Turns To OSAI A‐B for a Flexible Response: Stand No 5706
ONE of the rising stars in the machine tool rebuild business is Saville Machine Tools of Halifax. In mid‐1989 the company moved into its new 28,000ft2 factory. This was the…
Latest Developments in Tube Inspection Systems
Don KinleyTHE Vector Measuring Machine (VMM) has been used successfully for many years as a part shape development tool; however, inspection departments have hesitated on giving up their…
Traub Machines Prove Their Worth in Small Batch High Precision Environment: Stand No 5651
AS a successful manufacturer of precision products for the booming aerospace industry, High Temperature Engineers is under continuous pressure to improve productivity. With a…
Competitive Machining of Long Components: Stand No 5623
THE machining of long, often slender workpieces is seldom straightforward, always expensive.
Brough in the Forefront
A very recent addition to the machining capacity at The British Aerospace (Military Aircraft) Brough unit is the Matsuura FX‐5 high speed vertical twin pallet machining centre…
FFV Aerotech
Terry Ford CEng MRAeSIN May, 1989 the first Boeing 747 came into FFV Aerotech's new Diamond hangar at Stansted for a base check. This was a significant event in the development of the company's…
Equipment
The AVX‐553BR is designed to extend the length of a single 1553 bus by regenerating the data on a remote bus. The maximum transmission distance of a MIL‐STD‐1553 bus is 300ft …
Contracts
McDonnell Douglas has received a US $3.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to expand a new cockpit system designed to help fighter pilots…
News and Views
Noble & Lund/FMT have acquired the Kearns Richards product range of horizontal boring machines and vertical turning centres. The range of machines is complementary to the FMT…
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- Prof Phil Webb