Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 62 Issue 6
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Tony LancasterAS industrial monitor and control systems grow in both size and sophistication, the demands placed upon the man‐machine interface (MMI) increase to the point at which there are…
Software for Aerospace and Avionics Industries
SCIENCE Systems is an independent software and systems house offering the following consultancy services:
Breaking the Paper Chain
TODAY, competition demands that manufacturing industry make continual improvements in performance. Staying ahead is like running up a down escalator—relax and you go backwards…
Computer Graphics Enhance Training at RAFC Cranwell
THE Royal Air Force regards training as an essential requirement for all its staff. Initial training is required to instruct personnel on their role within the organisation…
Air Systems — Applying Advanced Computing Techniques
FOUNDED in 1969, Logica has grown steadily to become one of the world's leading suppliers of computer software, systems and consultancy. The company has over 3400 staff and its…
CADCAM Successfully Applied to Scaled‐Down Propeller Moulds
LAY‐UP moulds designed and made by the Computer Aided Engineering division of Deltacam Systems Ltd using the company's DUCT integrated 3D modelling CADCAM software are being used…
The Future for Quality Software
THE need for software quality assurance, combined with the problem of largely non‐existent programming standards has been vastly underestimated throughout the computing industry…
MALPAS and the Static Analysis of Avionics Software
MALPAS, the powerful software static analysis tool supported by Rex Thompson & Partners Ltd, is about to acquire facilities for the automatic handling of software written in Ada…
MIL‐STD‐1553 Bus Monitor
THE AT Avonix Corp., Bus Monitor, is in fact much more than a BM as defined by MIL‐STD 1553 Specifications. It is actually a 1553 Data Bus Analyser (Logic Analyser philosophy) and…
Harris Adds Multiprocessing RISC System to Night Hawk Computer Family
HARRIS Computer Systems Division recently announced the Night Hawk 4400, a multiprocessing, real‐time computer system in the Night Hawk 4000 series, which is based on reduced…
Airops — A Better Way to Manage General Aviation Using Computers
THERE is a strange dichotomy of attitudes toward technology in the General Aviation and Air Charter Business. On the one hand embracing with open arms the advances in…
Computer Assisted Optimisation of Maintenance Activities
Gary PollakThis paper describes how aircraft maintenance organisations can benefit from the introduction of computerised records systems, both by improved use of the human and material…
Safety Topics: High Altitude Operation
MaydayISSUED by the FAA a recent notice proposes amendments to specify aircraft and equipment airworthiness standards for subsonic transport aircraft to be operated up to an altitude of…
Equipment
Schott FS‐200‐40 PWC 5mm Flexible Borescopes together with a full range of guide tubes have received approval by Pratt & Whitney Canada for the internal inspection of PT6 and…
News and Views
Available from Permali Gloucester Ltd. is a new brochure describing the range of sandwich laminates which the company manufactures to the specific requirements of different…
Contracts
Milton Keynes‐based software house, Blanewood Andrews Computing has won two further ‘Uniman’ manufacturing control system contracts worth £220,000 from Rediffusion Simulation …
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb