Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 64 Issue 2
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The International Symposium on Remote Visual Inspection of Aircraft
MORE than 80 delegates from 20 countries attended the two‐day International Symposium on Remote Visual Inspection of Aircraft at the Edwardian International Hotel, Heathrow…
Stocksbridge Engineering Steels Aerospace Investment
STOCKSBRIDGE Engineering Steels (SES), a division of United Engineering Steels Ltd., is to invest £5 million in vacuum arc remelting (VAR) equipment that will significantly…
Seen at Aerotech
THE Aerotech Exhibition held in conjunction with the Congress at Birmingham was attended by companies and establishments with a range of products and services. Many of these…
Integrated Health and Usage Monitoring System (IHUMS)
BRISTOW Helicopters has now recorded over 15,000 operational AS332L Bristow Tiger and Sikorsky S‐61N flying hours with its combined Cockpit Voice and Flight Data Recorder (CVFDR)…
Pillomat Protects Components and Fixtures at Westland Engineering
SOME four years ago, production managers at Westland Engineering realised that delicate components and machine fixtures were liable to costly damage through every day contact with…
Westland Weighs Tilted Tanks
WESTLAND Helicopters in Yeovil are using a unique multichannel weighing system supplied by Nobel Systems Ltd. (previously Bofors Electronics Ltd.) that allows them to weigh…
British‐Built Vertical Machining Centres
BRIDGEPORT has launched three large‐capacity, vertical machining centres (VMCs) and two Interact manual‐toolchange CNC milling machines in response to market demand from the UK…
Safety Topics: Severing of Drive Train
MaydayTHIS accident concerns a Sikorsky S‐61N helicopter which took off after a 25 minute period of ground running with rotors turning. Around five minutes into the flight, as…
Equipment
A new, replacement weather avoidance radome is now available to commercial airlines for all ATR‐42/72 commuter aircraft from Norton Performance Plastics.
Contracts
Korean Air, the flag carrier of the Republic of Korea, has selected the Fokker 100 fanjetto modernise its domestic fleet. Korean Air placed a firm order for nine Fokker 100s with…
Contracts
FPT Industries Ltd., Portsmouth, a division of Westland Aerospace Ltd., has gained an important contract to supply flotation systems for the two Soviet‐built Mi‐8 helicopters…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb