Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 65 Issue 7
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An International JournalTable of contents
Cimitar Avoids Expensive Delays
Brian HallBritish Aerospace, already a recognised world class manufacturer, has installed a production control system to ensure its carbon Fibre cell meets delivery dates and to monitor the…
Condition Monitoring of Spindle Machines Performance is Proving Cost Effective at British Aerospace
Tony Smith MSc CEng FIMfgEA significant amount of metal removal is undertaken at British Aerospace's Preston plant during the machining of mainly aluminium wing skins, bulk heads and leading edge sections…
New Advances in Contamination Monitoring of Hydraulic Fluids
THE traditional, laborious, and time consuming method of drawing off samples of hydraulic fluid to be tested in the laboratory for contamination has given way to a far more…
Europe's Largest CMM now Operational at Westland Aerospace
WHAT is believed to be the largest coordinate measuring machine in a manufacturing environment in Europe is now operational at Westland Aerospace at East Cowes. The £1 million…
Paris '93 Review
DESPITE reductions in the number of companies exhibiting and in the number of visitors, there were significant developments at the Paris Show. Several new aircraft made their…
Aerospace Notes
A new kind of industrial laser — light‐energised iodine — is being developed by United Technologies Industrial Lasers. Beam power of the prototype will be 0.5–1.0 kW, that is, at…
Matra Marconi Space Leading Europe into Space
MATRAMarconi Space is the first fully integrated European space company (51 % Matra, 49 % GEC Marconi). It employs a staff of 3200 – 2000 in France and 1200 in Great Britain …
Safety Topics: Kit Piston Engine type Accident
MaydayAPART from a short hop take‐off and landing up to a height of about 20 ft, this was the first flight of this Denney Kitfox Mk3. A passenger was carried because the pilot…
Contracts
A Bournemouth aviation company's business has rocketed to new heights in North America after winning a massive £100 million contract in the United States to fit out new…
News and Views
On its 5th anniversary since the management buy out from Plessey Microsystems, Radstone Technology PLC has announced record results for the 1992/1993 financial year.
People in the news
Bill Boisture, President and CEO of British Aerospace Corporate Jets Inc. announced recently the appointment of the senior management team for this newly formed company.
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- Prof Phil Webb