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Citation
(1999), "The right tool for the right job", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1999.12771bab.016
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
The right tool for the right job
The right tool for the right job
Keyword FLS Aerospace
Local students are benefiting from an aircraft maintenance company's donation of a specialist tool kit to the aero-engineering department of Bedford College.
The tool kit, worth £600, was presented in recognition of the College's training partnership with FLS Aerospace Ltd. Bedford College delivers the NVQ underpinning knowledge for the Stansted Airport based company's Modern Apprentices (Plate 10).
Plate 10 Pictured with the donated aircraft
tool kit is: (l-r) Sue Lloyd, employee development officer for FLS Aerospace
Ltd; Alan Taylor, aero-engineering co-ordinator for Bedford College; Ian Ludlow,
general manager for quality enhancement projects for FLS Aerospace Ltd; David
Screen, avionics tutor at Bedford College; and Ed Waddon, airframes tutor at
Bedford College
Employee development officer for FLS Aerospace Ltd, Sue Lloyd, said: "The donation of the tool kit will greatly assist all future aircraft engineering students in the selection of good quality tooling which will eventually become their life blood."