Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 63 Issue 5
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The Search for Higher Thrust
Terry Ford, CEng, MRAeSMORE power is continuously being demanded from aero‐engines and a leading feature of the Rolls‐Royce RB 211 series of turbofans is the progressive development of this unit from…
Uprated CNC Mill Gets Universal Tool changer
MAHO'S MH600E computer‐controlled milling machine has been uprated in capacity and speed, and may now be fitted with the new option of a universal automatic toolchanger, capable…
Tooling Up for Exotic Cutting
The use of high quality or exotic materials such as heat resistant alloys, high strength steels, stainless and aluminium alloys provide many answers to designers requiring…
DEA Machines Get the Measure of Short Machining Capability
A DEA Gamma computer controlled (CNC) co‐ordinate measuring machine (CMM) and a manually operated Swift CMM have been installed as part of the manufacturing modernisation…
Drilling — The Point That Matters
HOW many times have you heard a setter blame the cutter grinders for his aggravation on the line? The problem is that the performance of the simple drill spindle, the £100,000…
Remanufacturing — A Cost Effective Solution for Machine Tool Users
THERE is far more to the remanufacturing of machine tools than simply bolting a modern control and drive package onto an old machine carcase. In reality this is akin to putting a…
Japanese Style Production Methods Help AIMS Satisfy British Airways' Demands
IBM blue slim‐line high performance channel cables have been installed in the main computer halls of British Airways by AIMS of Milton Keynes.
Computervision Enables Aerospace Manufacturers to Reduce Cable Assembly Costs
COMPUTERVISION'S Theda Harnessdesign facilitates the design and manufacture of aerospace cable assemblies — a cable assembly is a set of wires of cables bound together to form a…
Paris '91 Preview: Le Bourget — 14–23 June
Invented and manufactured by the French company AHG (Ateliers de la Haute‐Garonne), the MATT rivet has been specially formulated to prolong the life of riveting in thin sheet…
Aeronautical Satcoms Takes Off
A phone calll to London from a Gulfstream aircraft operating in southern United States on 2 November, 1990, eliminated the last communications vacuum for mankind on the move.
Safety Topics: Brake Fire
MaydayON completion of an 88 minute transit flight, a Boeing 747–436 was landed at night at Bangkok where the temperature was 29°C. The approach was made at a weight of 254 tonnes with…
Contracts
Specialist capability has helped Avica Equipment win a million pound plus contract for anti‐ice ducting on the McDonnell Douglas MD‐11 passenger trijet.
News and Views
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Tombs of Brailes F.Eng. earlier this month performed the Official Opening Ceremony of Blandburgh Nemo's new subcontract heat treatment plant at Chard…
People
Jonathan Lindsay is appointed managing director of Fothergill Engineered Fabrics, part of Courtaulds Advanced Materials, in succession to John Hall who is leaving the group.
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- Prof Phil Webb