Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 61 Issue 4
Strapline:
An International JournalTable of contents
Corrosion & Non‐Destructive Testing
Harold G BunceIn the “in‐service” maintenance and inspection of aircraft structures, an uneasy alliance exists between corrosion detection and Non‐Destructive Testing. NDT is a widely used and…
After the Review Panel
Terry Ford, CEng MRAeSAS an appreciable time has elapsed since the HARP report in 1984, it has been thought appropriate to consider the progress made in helicopter airworthiness since that time. A…
First Privately‐Owned Japanese Satellite in Position Over Longitude 150° East
JCSAT 1, Japan's first privately‐owned commercial communications satellite, launched by Ariane 4 rocket from French Guiana on 6th March, has now been manoeuvred into…
Imaging System Will Improve Monitoring of Bio‐Physical Properties of Sea and Land
THE Aerospace and Defence Systems Division of Sira Ltd, the UK applied research and technology company, has successfully completed the initial design study of a space‐borne remote…
Warner & Swasey's High Speed Precision Lathe Does RHP Bearings a Good Turn
A 50 percent improvement in machining cycle times is reported by RHP Aerospace as a result of installing a WSC‐6 CNC turning machine from Warner & Swasey.
Safety Topics: The Manchester Accident
MaydayPUBLISHED some 3½ years afterwards, the report on the accident to Boeing 737–236 at Manchester Airport in August, 1985 contains 31 safety recommendations. The Civil Aviation…
Equipment, Materials and Services
By combining its transducer package expertise with an ASIC, Druck have successfully diversified into the aircraft indicator field. A robust indicator was required for the…
Contracts
Ferranti International, one of Britain's leading defence systems and electronics companies, has ordered a British Aerospace 125–800 business jet which has recently been delivered…
News and Views
On 6 April His Excellency General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev spent part of his afternoon touring the Watford facility of a Dowty company, CASE Communications Ltd. Mr Gorbachev…
People
Dr Geoffrey Pardoe, chairman of General Technology Systems Limited — the international technology and strategic management consultancy — announced the following appointments to…
ISSN:
0002-2667Online date, start – end:
1929Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Phil Webb