Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 64 Issue 11
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Advances in Ceramic Manufacturing Technology: For the Aircraft and Aerospace Engineering Industries
Paul ShoreCOMMON to a diverse range of manufacturing industries, is the drive to miniaturise and produce higher precision products. Electric switches and relays, for example, operate faster…
Abrasive Water Jet Systems for Protection Line Cutting
Paul EtchellsSINCE 1985, the use of abrasive‐entrained water jets to cut a wide variety of metallic and non‐metallic materials has rapidly expanded, creating a whole new industry and an…
Westland Aerospace Buys C‐Plan to Maintain Competitive Lead
WESTLAND Aerospace, based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, has just begun installation of C‐PLAN computerised process planning software from CADCentre Ltd. in Cambridge. More than…
AFFFs — Fighting Aircraft Fires
TODAY's high‐grade foams provide airport fire‐fighting crews with the capability to rapidly knockdown and extinguish fires as a result of aircraft crashes or engine failure…
Portable Infra‐red Thermometer Improves Safety at Boeing
BOEING are using IRCON ULTIMAX™ portable infra‐red thermometers to check heated pitot tubes mounted eight metres high on 747 aircraft fuselages by measuring the surface…
AH‐64D Longbow Takes Systems Integration to New Heights
MENTION systems integration, and one helicopter comes immediately to mind: the AH‐64D Longbow.
Farnborough 1992
CONSIDERABLE interest is being shown in the progress of the Westland‐Agusta EH101 with the nine pre‐production aircraft exploring every aspect of the helicopter's development and…
Sky's the Limit
WITH a company's finished products selling for several million pounds apiece, you might think there wouldn't be much pressure on reducing component costs and improving…
Engineered for Simplicity Fuels Productivity at Mollart
THE installation of a computer controlled manufacturing cell, based on a Fanuc Drill‐Mate machining centre, has doubled production capacity for key components at Mollart Universal…
Aerospace Notes
Aerospace engineers investigating new high‐performance heat‐resistant alloys for further gas turbine engines are optimistic about titanium aluminides. If the alloys can be made…
UK Patent Abstracts
In U.K. patent 2233613 Short Brothers plc describe a flap assembly. It includes a flap member located at the trailing edge of an aircraft wing. A bracket extends down from the…
Equipment
Rohde & Schwarz has announced the new EMI test receiver ESBI for EMC measurements from 20 Hz to 5 GHZ.
Contracts
Smiths Industries Aerospace, Defence Division (Newmark), has been awarded a contract for Bell Helicopter Textron to supply 3‐inch Attitude Indicators (ADI's) for use on OH‐58Ds…
News and Views
Three members of the GEC group of companies, GEC‐Ferranti, Canadian Marconi Company (CMC) and Micronav International Inc., together with Rockwell International's Collins Avionics…
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- Prof Phil Webb