Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 63 Issue 12
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An International JournalTable of contents
A340 Cabin Offers New Levels of Comfort for Passengers and Crew
ONE feature which has been of major significance in attracting the A340's growing world‐class customer base is the flexibility of the cabin interior, enabling airlines to meet the…
High‐Intensity Fluorescent Lamps More Than Double Light Output
HIGH‐INTENSITY Fluorescent Lamps introduced by Aerospace Lighting Corp. (ALC) provide more than twice as much light output than the company's standard fluorescent aircraft…
Airwork‐Britavia Offers Cabin Design‐and‐Build Service
BRITAVIA, the design division of Airwork Ltd., the major UK‐based aviation support organisation, has achieved an outstanding reputation in the field of aircraft conversions and…
Cost Effective Dual Role for Aircraft Hangars
AUTOSTACK the revolutionary Flexible Moving Wall System from aircraft maintenance industrial specialists, Union Environmental, a division of Union Industries of Leeds, UK, is…
Satellite Navigation
AT the 1991 International Conference of the Royal Institute of Navigation the opening address was by Olaf Lundberg, director general of Inmarsat and many civil and military…
PICS at BAe
MODERN technology is increasingly being used to solve communications problems and increase business efficiency. In the area of internal corporate communications television…
Closed Loop SPC Gauging for Turbine Blade Grinding Cell
A multi‐probe computer controlled gauging system developed by Hitchin‐based Vernon Gauging Systems Ltd. has been installed to provide fully integrated closed loop statistical…
Tucano H Proof‐of‐Concept Makes First Flight
THE proof‐of‐concept EMB‐312H Tucano prototype made its first flight recently from Embraer's facilities in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil.
Safety Topics: Interface With Cockpit Automation
MaydayINCREASINGLY high levels of technology and modern methods of interfacing with the aircraft as well as the human factors involved with discussed at a recent Seminar jointly…
U.K. Patent Abstracts
In U.K. patent 2229408 Boeing of Canada Ltd describes a thrust deflector system for VSTOL aircraft. The system consists of a number of spaced‐apart, downwardly facing openings…
Equipment
ITT Sealectro has become the first company to be granted ‘space qualification’ by the European Space Agency/Space Components Co‐ordination Group for a volume and weight saving…
Contracts
Under the terms of an order worth almost £230,000, British Aerospace (BAe) has purchased four bespoke overhead electric travelling cranes (OETCs) from Street's of…
News and Views
Honeywell has signed an agreement with officials from the People's Republic of China to co‐develop avionics for the McDonnell Douglas MD‐90–30 aircraft which will be built in…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb