Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 59 Issue 11
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An International JournalTable of contents
Technical Advances in Tyres, Wheels and Brakes: Dunlop Keeps Britain in the Forefront
FOLLOWING its acquisition by BTR the aerospace activities of Dunlop have been reorganised and now include the Aviation Division in Coventry the Aircraft Tyres Division in…
Goodyear Goes from Strength to Strength
MAN raised the first airplane off the ground in 1903 — when the Wright brothers made their historic flight—but it wasn't until six years later that he learned how to get back down…
Thread Root Radius Rolling at Bintcliffe Turner
WITH the new T45 Goshawk for the US Navy designed to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier at exceptional descent speeds, all the mechanical components used in the aircraft's…
Royal Air Force Engineering
Terry Ford GEng MRAeSAN opportunity to become acquainted with the engineering expertise available at RAF Stations and to study the degree of involvement in design and manufacture occurred recently…
Real Time Digital Strip Chart Emulation
T Halsey, M Brimbal, G GrottenthalerThe efficiency of range telemetry, as currently practiced, is somewhat limited by the available display technology. The manpower, space and accuracy problems associated with…
How a British Machine Tool Manufacturer Beat the Recession
THE first indication that Wavis Engineering Development Co Ltd had weathered the recession and was pulling out, came in 1984 with a slight upsurge of orders. Wavis decided to be…
Beaver VC45 Series
BEAVER introduce the VC45 Series of fixed table, travelling column vertical machining centres.
Artificial Intelligence Begins to Make its Mark
SOLARTRON Instruments is co‐operating with Intelligent Applications Limited to initiate a significant step forward in measurement technology. The purpose of the joint venture is…
KTM Launch 5 Axis Version of Fleximatic FM 200 Machining Centre
VERTICAL and horizontal machining — and any angle in‐between — can be carried out on the latest 5‐axis version of the Fleximatic FM 200 machining centre, seen for the first time…
Safety Topics
MaydayA means to alert the flightcrew of an aircraft's potentially unsafe low fuel quantity was the subject of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued earlier this year. It was…
Equipment, Materials and Services
JCT Controls is now marketing its CMS 2000 Series electronic flowmeter, which has been designed to give high accuracy measurement of pressure and temperature as well as flow. It…
Contracts
Westland Aerospace Ltd has been awarded a contract worth $1 million from the Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company to supply trailing edge panels and stiffeners for the wings of…
News and Views
The first four British Aerospace Hawk Mk65 advanced jet trainers delivered to the Royal Saudi Air Force arrived in Saudi Arabia on October 13 after a 3,000nm ferry flight from…
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- Prof Phil Webb