Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 57 Issue 7
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Ultrasonic Machining — One of Three New Aerospace Developments
DESIGN Technologies Ltd has developed the Desitech ‘UM’ Ultrasonic Profile Cutting process under an R & D contract from a major United States aerospace supplier. The initial…
High Productivity Tooling Achieves Dramatic Reductions in Downtime
IN 1967 Richard Arnold set up in business with half‐a‐dozen employees in Stroud, Gloucestershire, as precision toolmakers. Today, Richard Arnold Ltd is one of Britain's leading…
Britannia Converts 737s to Carry GE ‘Backstop’ Engines
THE arrival of Britannia Airways' new Boeing 767 at Luton International Airport, in February 1984, marked a new era in British leisure aviation. Since then Britannia has taken…
High Precision Wind Tunnel Models Simulate New Airliner Performance
MANY years before a new airliner takes off on its maiden flight, models of the aircraft will have simulated numerous take‐offs, landings and high‐speed flights in wind tunnel…
Mending Turbine Guide Vanes
IN order to repair aircraft engine parts that would scarcely merit a second glance from the layman, Lufthansa is setting up an entirely new workshop at its Hamburg maintenance…
Benson Heating Help to Warm the RAF
‘A MAGIC BIT OF KIT’ — this is how the RAF described the Apollo MK3 Aircraft Heater Trolley manufactured by Aircraft Maintenance Support Services Ltd, (A.M.S.S.), Eagle House…
Equipment, Materials and Services
Semtech has increased the number of military rectifier approvals held by the company, establishing a broader approved product range than any other company in this field.
News and Views
The Actuation Division of Lucas Aerospace, based at Wolverhampton, UK has won three major orders for work on the new Airbus Industrie A320, 150 seat passenger aircraft.
People
Sir Philip Foreman, CBE, DL, chairman and managing director of Short Brothers PLC, the Belfast‐based aerospace manufacturer, has been elected 1985–86 President of the…
Events
Charles Stuart, chairman and chief executive of Brymon Airways, will preside at the Conference which will be held in conjunction with the First Regional Aricraft and Equipment…
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- Prof Phil Webb