Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 66 Issue 1

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

SAFE Europe Symposium 1993

Recently held in Birmingham was the first Symposium of the Survival and Flight Equipment (SAFE) Europe organization, which was accompanied by an exhibition of many of the products…

Effective Training Administration — The KLM Experience

Computerization is taking over every aspect of routine administration within companies. It is inconceivable that any large organization could remain in business for long without a…

Aviation industry update

The history of commercial CFD software began when CHAM launched the first version of PHOENICS in 1981. Others followed, but PHOENICS has retained its status as the original and…

Power plants

Royal Swazi National Airways has selected a Rolls‐Royce Tay‐powered Fokker 100 airliner to boost its services to other major African destinations, including Johannesburg, Nairobi…

SIRA report

An instrument capable of measuring the quality of a lens to better than one‐twentieth of the wavelength of light, has been designed and built by Sira Electro‐optics Division for…

Helicopters

When the first radar‐equipped AH‐64D Longbow Apache rolled out recently, it logged another in a growing string of milestones for the US Army's most advanced combat helicopter.

Maintenance

FLS Aerospace Engineering has commissioned a Maintenance Control Centre (MAINTROL) at the Stansted Diamond Hangar facility in support of the Line Maintenance operation and Hangar…

Aerospace Production

Setting times have been halved on three key machining centres at radar system manufacturer, Siemens Plessey Systems, at its Isle of Wight factory. This follows the supply and…

Aerospace Safety

A Cessna 172N Skyhawk aircraft was planned to fly from Birmingham to Edinburgh via Gamston, Ottringham, Newcastle and St Abb's Head. No problems were encountered during the flight…

US Notes

Materials researchers at NASA Lewis Research Center have developed a low‐cost fibre push‐out test apparatus for studying the fundamental behaviour of fibre‐reinforced composites…

Patent abstracts

In UK patent 2259679 Short Brothers plc describe an aircraft structural component such as an engine nacelle nose cowl. It comprises a forward compartment formed by a forward…

British Standards

BSI announces publication of: BS 3518: Methods of Fatigue Testing. BS 3518: Part 1: 1993 Guide to General Principles.

Equipment

The Magellan Systems SkyNav 5000 avionics GPS receiver has been approved by the Bundesamt für Zulassungen in der Telekommunikation (BZT) civil aviation authority of Germany and…

Contracts

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Division has won an important first contract to supply tyres to Aeroplex for Malev's fleet of Boeing 767s. The contract was placed by Aerospares Shannon…

News and Views

In three hours from Tokyo to New York — that is the objective which Japanese researchers are following. This should be achieved and commercialized by the beginning of the next…

People

Logging‐in over 32 years in the aviation business, Ted Lawrence has joined the Western Aircraft Incorporated team and will be handling the Falcon aircraft and maintenance sales…

Cover of Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb