Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 51 Issue 2

Strapline:

An International Journal
Subjects:

Table of contents

Swissair Engineering

Terence Ford

The airworthiness and availability of all Swissair aircraft is the responsibility of the Engineering and Maintenance Department at Zurich. The extensive facilities available are…

Flight Deck Alarm Systems

ELWYN EDWARDS

The increase in sophistication of aircraft has led to considerable escalation in the complexity of their alarm (i.e. warning and caution) systems in recent years. Each individual…

Safety of Air Transport

WALTER CBE TYE, Hon DSc, FRAeS

Part A of the paper deals with some of the more general issues which underlie the quest for air safety. Part B discusses a few of the current human factor questions.

Tyre safety

In a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Transportation Safety Board expressed its concern about multiple tyre failures in wide‐bodied aircraft, such as…

News and Views

The Mechnacial Engineering Laboratory of GEC Power Engineering has been appointed an authorised consultant under the MAPCON (microprocessor applications) Scheme.

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb