Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 53 Issue 3

Is it Safe?: The Safety Assessment of Aircraft Systems

WALTER TYE, TED LLOYD

As was discussed in the last article, the requirements for system safety are often couched in terms of the maximum permissible probability of occurrence. In many cases a part of…

Airworthiness—“A Round‐up”

E.R. Major, BSc(Eng), FIMech. E, FSLAET FRAeS, FRSA

In my introductory article, “Airworthiness — A Systems Approach”, last March, I expressed the hope that eminent engineers from all the disciplines and activities on which “total…

Flying the Super 737

Terry Ford

The first Advanced Boeing 737–200 (known as Super 737 by the airline) entered service with British Airways in February, 1980 and the whole fleet of 19 aircraft together with 9 for…

Design for Economy

P.A. Marks, BSc(Eng), MRAeS

A Paper presented at the Conference of the International Federation of Airworthiness, the theme of which was ‘maintenance and economics’, and which took place in an atmosphere…

High Definition Radiography

Advances in manufacturing methods and the increased use of processes like electron beam welding and investment casting, have brought unprecedented demands for advanced NDT…

Controlling the Future with DSIC: Microprocessors in Engine Control Systems

Terry Ford

Through a combination of the resources of two large companies in 1977, Dowty Smiths Industries Controls (DSIC) has been in the forefront of the development and production of…

The Achievements of Donald Douglas

Donald Willis Douglas, American aviation pioneer has died in California, after a long period of declining health.

Safety

A commuter flight crashed when the left engine lost power at a critical point in the takeoff, apparently because of previously ingested metal fragments, the National…

Lightweight Solar‐powered Aircraft Flies Two Hours Non‐stop

Powered directly by the sun's rays, a lightweight aircraft flew for two hours high above the Arizona desert in early December of last year before a heavy rainstorm cut off its…

News and Views

British Air Ferries plans to re‐enter the passenger Inclusive Tour Market with a fleet of up to six Vickers Viscount 800 series aircraft, the first of which was on display at…