Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 65 Issue 3

Research into Materials Aspects of Aircraft Maintenance and Life Extension — Part 3

R.J. Chester, G. Clark, B.R.W. Hinton, A.A. Baker

Bonded composite repair technology was pioneered at ARL and has been successfully used to repair a wide range of military and civilian aircraft. The technique has proved to be…

Navigation Technology

Terry Ford CEng, MRAeS

MANY aspects of navigation control and display were explored at a recent conference in which aeronautical concepts played a significant part. The Royal Institute of Navigation…

The BMW 803 A Aero Engine

BMW is a company that can look back on a long tradition in engine construction. This not only applies to developing innovative car engines, which were always a little ahead of…

Infrared Thermography Enables Evaluation of Space Components

THE National Space Research Centre (CNES) in France have been using advanced infrared thermography techniques to help them analyse the thermal behaviour of components in space.

Measuring Paint and Anodising on Aluminium

AIRCRAFT are almost always painted. The reasons are various but can be generalised as protective and decorative, both of which have a direct and indirect cost.

DEA's Delta CMM Takes‐Off at Pratt & Whitney

PRATT & WHITNEY has no fewer than 46 DEA co‐ordinate measuring machines (CMMs) in the US and the latest installation of a DEA Delta 34A06 gantry‐style machine at the North…

New Multi‐Dimensional Measurement System

THE new DataSYS 700 Series multi‐dimensional measurement system from Gould is a complete data‐acquisition and measurement system based on state‐of‐the‐art digital storage…

A Review of New and Current Equipment

LAUNCHED at the Farnborough International Airshow last year by FT Technologies Ltd. the FT280 Synchro/Resolver Test Set incorporates in one versatile instrument an Angle Position…

Test Centres

A NEW service has become available to industry in Scotland and the North of England with the opening of the purpose built GEC Ferranti EMC Test Centre at Donibristle in Fife…

Safety Topics: Engine Fire Damage

Mayday

A Boeing 776–200ER took off from Heathrow for a direct flight to New York and during the take‐off, smoke was seen by a ground observer to be coming from the left engine. This…

Contracts

IMI Titanium Ltd.'s alloy IMI 834 has been selected by Pratt & Whitney Canada, Montreal, for use in the impeller in their PW305 turbofan aero‐engine, used in civil aircraft, in…

News and Views

A £250 million fleet modernisation programme was announced recently by Britain's second largest airline Britannia Airways.