Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 63 Issue 3
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An International JournalTable of contents
Looking Ahead in Navigation
Terry FordMODERN technology provides the means to satisfy the demands for more accurate navigation. The 21st century will require enhanced standards of safety and efficiency with better use…
High Reliability Around Airports
As long as improvements in short and long‐distance rail service appear technically, economically and environmentally unfeasible, air travel will remain the only viable means for…
Dedicated Eddy Current Unit: Inspection of Aircraft Fastener Holes With the Fasteners ‘In Situ’
A dedicated eddy current instrument, introduced by Staveley NDT Technologies is used to find flaws in aircraft fastener holes with the fastener remaining in place.
Extensive Quality Testing Required for Taiwan's Fighter Project
IN 1983, Dowty Fuel Systems tendered for and won the contract for the design and manufacture of the after‐burner fuel contract unit (ABFCU) for the Garrett TFE 1042 turbofan, on…
Electrical Heating System Improves Quality and Cuts Production Wait Time Losses
A new method of electrical induction heating saved Dowty Seals more than £9,000 each year by improving the utilisation of production presses at their Tewkesbury manufacturing…
Torvac Passes the Test
PLESSEY Aerospace at Titchfield, Hants has installed a Compact 100 vacuum furnace from Cambridge‐based suppliers Torvac. The furnace has just completed the warranty year in…
Titanium International Chose High Tech Bandsaw
THE numerically controlled Missler DEB 420N automatic bandsaw from Prosaw, now in service at over 100 of Britain's top manufacturing companies, is successfully meeting its…
Phillips 66 Composite Replaces Metals in Aircraft Fasteners
KAYNAR‐Microdot, a 45‐year‐old manufacturer of metal fasteners, has found an engineered plastic composite that allows replacement of steel and titanium in its Mu 2000™ line of…
British Engineering Reaches New Heights
British company, Hyde Group Ltd of Dukinfield, Cheshire, has been actively involved in India's largest satellite launch programme to date.
Safety Topics: Loss of Engine Power
MaydayA Hughes 369 HS helicopter was making a planned flight from Graunt Courts, Raynes, Essex, to Battersea Heliport. The helicopter lifted off at about 0955 hous and the initial climb…
Equipment
Pascall has introduced new surface mount versions of its MIL‐STD‐1553 bus transformers, widely used in through‐hole mounted form throughout the aeronautical industry in…
Contracts
An aircraft order worth $350 million (£184m) for six Rolls‐Royce powered Boeing 757s has been signed by Britain's leading leisure airline, Britannia Airways.
News and Views
Mr Roger William Smedley, chairman of engineering design consultants Ricardo International plc, has received the M.B.E. for personal services to technology. He was presented with…
People
Neil Mackin, has been appointed managing director of Matra Data‐vision (UK) Ltd, Coventry, a subsidiary of the French CAD/‐CAM/CAE system vendor whose ‘EUCLID‐IS’ software runs on…
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- Prof Phil Webb