Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 65 Issue 1

Research into Materials Aspects of Aircraft Maintenance and Life Extension — Part 1

R.J. Chester, G. Clark, B.R.W. Hinton, A.A. Baker

OVER several decades the Defence Science and Technology Organisation's Aeronautical Research Laboratory (ARL) has undertaken materials research focussed on support for maintenance…

Developments in Engine‐Airframe Integration

Terry Ford, CEng MRAeS

THE way in which powerplant characteristics are matched to those of an aircraft and the degree to which such integration is desirable are topics which have occupied designers for…

Aircraft Maintenance Management Part 2

D.H. Middleton

It is noted that the probability of dual engine failure from all independent causes in cruise must not exceed 0.3 x 10−8 per hour.

Royal Visitors at the World's Most Modern Windtunnel

The visit to the new European Transonic Windtunnel (ETW) in Cologne by Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip The Duke of Edinburgh, during their State Visit to Germany…

Programmable Switching System

WIND tunnel testing of aircraft models can generate a multitude of transducer signal outputs which can take days to wire up to the receiving instrumentation (see fig. 1). It can…

Civil Aircraft Datalinks

TO provide increased ATC capacity to meet the 50% and 70% increase in air transport movements forecast by 2005, considerable attention is being focussed on automatic data exchange…

Customised Interior Helicopter

AVIATION & Marine Interiors, of Fairoaks Airport, Chobham, Surrey, has just completed its most ambitious and extravagant one‐off interior in a Eurocopter Dauphin 2 helicopter…

Aerospace Notes

NASA and an industrial high‐speed civil transport propulsion team is studying whether to plan a potentially expensive series of flight tests to analyse performance of components…

Equipment

To ensure the safety of an aircraft whilst in flight and to reduce maintenance costs, early detection of wear on engine bearings, tracks and cages is essential.

Contracts

Air Canada has signed a major engine overhaul contract with the Government of Saudi Arabia. The three year agreement represents nearly 200,000 man‐hours of work and an annual…

News and Views

Fokker Aircraft has decided to equip its Fokker 50 series 300 propjet with Pratt & Whitney Canada PW 127B engines. The PW 127B is available as an option on Fokker 50s produced…