Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 62 Issue 7

Avdel Fasteners for Aerospace Applications

THE MBC locked stem fastener and Avdel self‐sealing blind rivet, which can be placed by the newly introduced 764, are two of several different types of fastener from Avdel Systems…

Evaluation of a Maximum Likelihood System Identification Technique on Flutter Testing Data

H. Van der Auweraer, J. Leuridan

The paper deals with the application of a frequency domain maximum likelihood estimation method for linear system identification in the field of flutter data analysis. Unlike…

Automated Inspection in Modern Manufacturing

Michael Sykes

RENISHAW are innovators in metrology, the science of measurement. Their core business is based on 3‐dimensional tough‐trigger probe technology, the original probe having been…

Continuing Structural Airworthiness

Terry Ford CEng, MRAeS

MAINTAINING older aircraft to conform to a continuing standard of structural airworthiness has become a major part of any civil or military operator's activities. Emphasised by…

Cooling Problems Facing the Electronics and Aerospace Industries

Paul W. O'Callaghan, PhD, Ramiz F. Babus'Haq, PhD

Heat is generated in electronics and other electrical systems by resistive heating, hysteresis losses, eddy currents, and switching activities. The faster a micro‐chip performs…

BAe Choose FMT for ‘Showpiece’ Production Cell

AN FM200 Fleximatic machining centre supplied by Flexible Manufacturing Technology Ltd is not only enabling British Aerospace to produce critical components of the highest…

Safety Topics: Tail Boom Failure

Mayday

A Hughes 390SH helicopter was to fly from its operating base to its maintenance base for a 50 hour inspection. The forecast for the flight indicated that the intended route would…

Personal Navigator a Major Contribution to Air Safety in the Private Sector

THE highly sophisticated levels of technology enjoyed by commercial and military pilots are not so readily available to the private sector. However, private pilots can now take to…

Computer‐Assisted Programming Brings in New Business for Subcontract Machinists

MOULDS for thermoforming, cams and other complex components are being machined by Peterborough‐based subcontractor Marlor Engineering with the help of a computer‐aided programming…

Soviet Machine Versatility Scores for Aerospace Subcontractor

PAUL Woonton set up Runway Engineering Ltd in Yate near Bristol with a sign board and an office, in a friend's factory, selling the company's machining facilities on commission…

Equipment

The PEI‐1553 interface board now available from Emerson of Bourne End acts as an intelligent computer interface between IBM PC compatible computers and the MIL‐1553B avionics…

Contracts

CAE Electronics Ltd., of Montrael, Canada, has been awarded a contract by America West Airlines of Phoenix, Arizona, to design and manufacture deHaviland Dash 8 and Boeing…

News and Views

Carbolite Furnaces will play an important role in next year's Anglo‐Soviet Juno space mission. The company has been asked to supply a series of automated laboratory tube furnaces…