Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 67 Issue 3
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An International JournalTable of contents
Aviation batteries: the state of the art in nickel cadmium: Reducing battery maintenance to cut costs and downtime
Fred‐Eric Hapiak, Nigel ThomasThe battery requirements of aircraft manufacturers and airlines in the 1970s and 1980s were for longer life and ever‐increasing electrical performance in areas such as…
Systems integration
Terry FordA recent ERA conference covered a wide range of advanced topics. The first session, “Operational Challenges”, featured civil and military contributions from airlines, the RAF and…
Surface coatings in the fight against corrosion
Brian NortonThe enormous cost of corrosion in aircraft is of major concern to manufacturers, airlines and the armed forces. Affecting structures, components and engines, it manifests itself…
Electropolishing: a space age process
John SwainElectropolishing or, to give it its more precise title, electrochemical polishing, has now become an accepted finishing aid in the aerospace industry. Few processes offer the…
Zinc‐nickel: a breakthrough in alloy zinc electroplating
Leigh DanksElectroplated coatings of zinc have been successful in protecting steel components against corrosion for many years. However, with the introduction of more exacting standards, the…
Copper alloys for critical aircraft and aerospace components
Keith C. BendallCopper‐based alloys are widely used in aircraft engineering where critical components require materials of construction with high strength, good ductility and resistance to…
Selective plating development fights corrosion
Richard MountfordThe aircraft and aerospace industry still offers many unique technical challenges, resulting from the continuing drive to achieve greater all‐round performance and economy.
Mini features
The new ACQuLab data‐acquisttion system from Gould Instrument Systems is a high‐performance instrument which is designed to make the acquisition and analysis of lest data easier…
Space projects
A new, non‐explosive actuator (NEA) developed by G&H Technology holds tensile loads of up to 12,500lb and quickly releases them when electronically activated. The Model 1203…
Power plants
A Boeing 747 flying test‐bed, powered by the first Rolls‐Royce Trent 800 flight engine, has recently completed a series of successful trials in preparation for the start of the…
The aerospace world
A researcher at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science (Evanston, Illinois) has developed an X‐ray device that is believed to be the first…
Equipment
Druck has announced that it has been awarded a major contract by the Ministry of Defence tor the supply of 150 Air Data Test Sets for use by the Royal Air Force. As part of the…
Materials
The glass microballoons available from New Metals & Chemicals are in a range of grades claiming high strength, temperature resistance and compatibility with a broad spectrum of…
Contracts
Following an order in the latter part of 1994 from a South East Asian airline, a further airline from the Far East has placed an order for a blade tip grinder from Newall…
Industry round‐up
Sira Test & Certification (ST&C) has introduced a calibration hot line as part of an ongoing programme to fine‐tune its customer services to meet market needs. By calling a single…
Bookshelf
Maurice Rasmussen, R.J. Adams, J.M. Buffington, S.S. BandaNot since the early days of space flight has the subject of hypersonic flow been of such importance to aerospace. Spurred by visions of hypersonic transport, and aerospace planes…
Information file
A free computer disk containing abstracts of a very wide range of aerospace engineering data and software has been introduced by Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU…
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- Prof Phil Webb