Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 59 Issue 8
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Composite Developments
Terry Ford CEng MRAeSINCORPORATING Tenmat ‘Feroform’ bushes in their construction, carbon brakes, designed and manufactured by Dunlop Aviation division at Coventry, are fitted to the Boeing 757…
MBB‐ERNO Starts Detail Definition for COLUMBUS: First launches planned from mid‐nineties onwards
THE smallest will be first: according to present plans, the Polar Platform is to be the first flight configuration from the European COLUMBUS programme to take up work in 1995. An…
Space ‐ A Real Time System for Industrial Measurement
THE System for Positioning and Automated Co‐ordinate Evaluation (SPACE) is a completely new development for industrial measurement in real time. Designed by Kern and available in…
Tomorrow's Military Airbus
Keith HammondThe success of the Airbus series, in which BA has a stake, is set to be the event of the next two decades — Europe is, and will continue, selling aeroplanes to the Americans;…
Special Tool Used for V‐22 Osprey Tilt Rotor Aircraft Assembly
Lockheed‐Georgia Company is using a special tool to form a composite assembly for the new V‐22 Osprey tilt rotor aircraft. The tool is a mould fixture for forming a relatively…
Tru‐Form ‐A Breakthrough in Aero Engine Ring Technology
THE complex annular structures of turbine aero engines are commonly fabricated from a mixture of precision machined forgings, flash welded, cold rolled and sheet metal rings…
Increased Production of Harness Braids for British Aerospace
BRITISH AEROSPACE, Warton Division, have increased their production capability for electrically screened harness assemblies by purchasing a further 4 Harness Braiding machines…
Vacuum Furnace Enables Torvac Processing to Offer Higher Performance Processing
A new high vacuum furnace has been installed at the Sheffield processing factory of Torvac Processing Ltd.
Safety Topics
MaydayThe latest expertise in escape systems was shown on the Martin‐Baker stand at the Paris Show, highlighted by the company's Mk 14 which is the world's first microprocessor…
Longest Runway Now Anti‐Skid
A severe hydroplaning hazard affecting Britain's longest military runway has been permanently eliminated following a recent 100,000m2 grooving operation by Europe's biggest…
Equipment, Materials and Services
Twenty years of experience in airborne computers has resulted in the launch of the Ferranti ‘Proteus’ series — a new breed of general purpose computer for military avionic…
Contracts
Britool, one of the UK's largest manufacturers of top quality tools for professional engineers and mechanics, has now become a primary supplier of tools to British Airways. The…
News and Views
INMARSAT was confident that it could satisfy demand for aeronautical satellite communications into the late 1990s with its present nine satellites, plus three INMARSAT‐2…
Conferences, Meetings and Events
The highly topical and controversial subject of smoke hoods for airline passengers will be reviewed in one of the 24 separate half‐day seminars to be held at “Aerotech 87”, the…
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- Prof Phil Webb