Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 69 Issue 3

Analytic certification of airframes

Cleaver Symons, Alan Morris

Confidence in airframe structure integrity must never be compromised, particularly where the structure is safety critical. There are, however, increasing pressures, cost being one…

The design, manufacture and qualification of flexible fuel cells

Mark Butler

The increasing use of helicopters has naturally created demands for improved safety and performance from many of the aircraft’s systems. If the passengers and crew are to survive…

The design, manufacture and certification of emergency inflation systems for helicopters

Steve Tutton

Describes the key elements of emergency inflation system design and highlights the considerations that have to be determined during the progress of the project. In addition…

Three aspects of aerospace safety

Terry Ford

Looks at three aspects of aerospace safety: accidents involving controlled flight into terrain and the developments and training introduced to avoid the risks involved;…

Cooling analysis eliminates fan, reducing weight and power draw

Thomas Nickell

Describes how engineers from Lockheed Martin, USA, reduced the weight and power draw of an oscillator in an aircraft electrical assembly by using computational fluid dynamics to…

Corrosion control on CN‐235 aircraft

Wayan Sutika Ananta, Wahyu Setiawan, Hari Shuko Widodo, Dwi Kirmanto

Presents a model of how an Indonesian aircraft manufacturer, Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (PT. IPTN), evaluates the causes of stress corrosion in CN‐235 aircraft and how it…

What defence companies have done to be more commercially successful

Diane Georgiades, Brian H. Kleiner

As a result of the end of the cold war, the US Government’s defence spending has decreased significantly since 1989. Consequently, many aerospace companies in the defence industry…