Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 56 Issue 6
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An International JournalTable of contents
Military Aircraft Engine Accessories: A Maintenance Philosophy
M.M. LeonardThe Paper describes the necessary stages in qualifying as a repair facility for third party aircraft fuel controls and transfer of this technology to customers.
British Caledonian — Present and Future
T.E. FordThe delivery earlier this year of two Airbus Industrie A310 aircraft to British Caledonian Airways (B.CAL) with a third scheduled to arrive in 1985, means that the airline has…
Rolls‐Royce Cuts Machining Operations
Three large five‐axis CNC machining centres from Scharmann Machine Ltd., Sheldon, Birmingham, have enabled Rolls‐Royce at their Parkside works in Coventry to reduce its numbers of…
Simulator Gives 200° Field of View
A new WIDE system, which will display computer generated scenes through a continuous 200° field‐of‐view to pilots in a flight simulator cockpit, is announced recently by…
CNC Punching and Nibbling Machine Beats Production Problem at BAe
A Pullmatic 210 CNC punching and nibbling machine supplied by Pullmax has enabled British Aerospace to cut costs and increase output of sheet metal parts for Jetstream 31…
A320 “Flies” at 900 km/hr in Wind Tunnel
High lift, low drag and easy controllability are just some of the aerodynamic requirements of the future Airbus A320. First measurements on the A320 wind tunnel model built by MBB…
Safety Topics
MaydaySpecialist information on the survivability aspects of post‐crash fires has been provided by Dr. John Hors‐fall, who is a member of the UK Air Safety Group and also of the…
Equipment — Materials and Services
Icore International's System Fifty is available in a wide range of convoluted conduit materials including low halogen HIPEREL, PTFE, ETFE, FEP and PFA. It is environmentally…
News and Views
Britannia's and Europe's first Boeing 767 (G‐BKPW) has been named “The Earl Mountbatten of Burma”.
People
Edward Pryor and Son Ltd., the Sheffield‐based specialists in marking machines and equipment for a wide range of applications, has appointed John Tissiman as Managing Director.
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- Prof Phil Webb