Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 60 Issue 7
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An International JournalTable of contents
Fasteners for Composites
THE increasingly important role of high‐modulus, fiber‐reinforced, epoxy‐resin composites in aerospace applications highlights the need for fasteners designed specifically for the…
Avdel MBC Aerospace Fasteners NAS 1722 Qualification
THE Avdel Group has received specification NAS 1722 for the full range of Avdel MBC locked stem rivets.
Adhesives Fasteners‐Securing the Future
Matthew SutcliffeALTHOUGH adhesives may have been in use for centuries it is really only in the last 30 years that they have come of age in an industrial sense and challenged traditional…
High Temperature Creep Resistant Alloys
IMI Titanium Limited has won a Queen's Award for Technological Achievement for its work in developing high temperature creep resistant alloys for use in aircraft gas turbines, a…
Advanced Simulation
Terry Ford CEng MRAeSRECOGNISED by authorities throughout the world, flight simulators have in many cases completely replaced the real aircraft for training purposes. Modern techniques are such that a…
Aircraft Gears Made in Half the Time
A computer‐controlled gear generator has largely taken over from conventional machines for the production of aircraft gears at Lucas Aerospace, Hemel Hempstead. It means that…
MPC 75 — Aircraft of the Future: MBB Begins Preliminary Design of an Airliner for the Nineties
MBB Transport Aircraft Group began preliminary design of the MPC 75 aircraft at the beginning of this year. The MPC 75 is an advanced technology 80‐passenger airliner to be…
The Catic Modular Fixturing System
David StocktonTHE philosophy of “just in time manufacture” is being adopted by more and more forward looking companies. To achieve “just in time manufacture” one of the basic requirements is…
Schlumberger Measured up to Highest Aerospace Standards
Albert CoxWITH an annual turnover of some $100 million, including sales to the processing and general manufacturing markets, the international Transducer Division of Schlumberger Industries…
Barry Controls
ACTIVITIES concerned with the design, development and manufacture of products controlling vibration, shock and noise together with the associated racking have become synonymous…
Advances in CO2 Laser Cutting of Aluminium and Stainless Steel Using RF‐Excited Trumpf TLF CO2 Lasers
Daniel HD Dechamps DIPL. ING.TLF‐Lasers are designed for optimum cutting results. A research and development programme concerning the cutting process has resulted in major progress in the cutting of aluminium…
Optical Measuring System Reduces Aircraft Jig Calibration Times by More Than 80%
THE conflicting but ever increasing demands made upon industry for improvements in quality, together with reductions in production costs, extends to aircraft manufacture. Whilst…
Luton Commissions Racal ASMI 18X Ground Movement Radar
RACAL Avionics today announces the commissioning of its ground movement radar ASMI 18X at Luton International Airpot. This latest announcement forms part of a total contract worth…
Safety Topics: Part 1 — Cockpit Voice Recorders and Flight Recorders
MaydayEXTENSIVE proposals recently issued by the FAA require installation of digital flight data recorders with specific parameters and/or cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) in a broad…
Equipment, Materials and Services
Muirhead Vactric Components Ltd, servo components subsidiary of the British RHP Group Plc, has responded to European demand for a higher resolution incremental shaft encoder…
Contracts
Dunlop Precision Rubber Division of Shepshed, Leicestershire has been chosen to supply a wide range of precision rubber seals, including a fire‐stopping design, for the new V2500…
News and Views
The 100th Foxhunter air interception radar has been delivered to RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire for the RAF's top fighter aircraft — the Tornado Air Defence Variant (ADV).
People
Roger Corn has taken on the new role of customer services manager at Wentgate Dynaweld of St Ives, Cambridgeshire.
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- Prof Phil Webb