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February 17, 2011
UPS will equip its fleet of MD-11 Freighters with Boeing's Airplane Health Management (AHM) system, the companies announced Wednesday. UPS already uses the system on its fleet of 747-400 Freighters. The expanded agreement covers 38 MD-11 Freighters and 13 747-400 Freighter and...August 26, 2010
HEICO CORPORATION today reported that net income increased 34 percent to a record $14,930,000, or 44 cents per diluted share, for the third quarter of fiscal...August 25, 2010
Yesterday members of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) at two American Airlines bargaining units have voted to reject tentative contract agreements with the airline reached in May, while a third unit has voted to ratify the agreement. In a large turnout, 10,251 eligible TWU members cast ballots out of a possible 12,800. TWU mechanics voted down the agreement by a vote of...August 24, 2010
Defense Holdings, Inc. (Dhi), has concluded a distributorship agreement with Hartzell Propeller Inc. of Piqua, OH for use of DHi’s AfterGlo Brand Photoluminescent Aviation Safety Paint on Hartzell’s line of aircraft propellers. AfterGlo paint is used to for safety markings to improve the visibility of aircraft...August 23, 2010
Having recently been EASA Part 145 certified, AMES has already received its first order for repairing a complete thrust reverser. The joint venture between Aircelle (Safran group) and Air France...December 29, 2009
In a first for the renewables and aviation industries, Heritage Aviation, the new General Aviation Facility at the Burlington International Airport, has installed a wind turbine on-site at their new facility. It is a Northwind 100, a 100kW wind turbine manufactured by Northern Power of Barre VT. Heritage Aviation has also installed a 25kW solar electric system and a solar hot water (thermal) system...August 1, 2009
It is my understanding that this magazine began, in its current form, in the early ‘80s. It had existed as another entity, Aircraft Equipment Maintenance, for some time before that. Over the years, there have been some talented individuals at the helm of this magazine, including Paul Berner, Clif Stroud, Matt Thurber and David Evans. Each individual brought something different to the table and each...August 1, 2009
In this special Industry Leader Profiles section, Aviation Maintenance highlights leading suppliers of products and services to the worldwide aerospace...August 1, 2009
Special Report: Not Your Usual Paris Air Show The worldwide economic downturn put a cloud over this biennial exposition, but it didn’t totally dampen spirits. Editor-at-Large David Jensen’s coverage from the Paris Air Show, held in June, is featured throughout this month’s Intelligence section. At first blush, it appeared like past Paris Air Shows: screaming fighter jets corkscrewing into...August 1, 2009
PAS Technologies has promoted Donald Spriggs to chief technology officer. Spriggs, who joined Kansas City, Mo.-based PAS Technologies in 2006, most recently served as vice president of product development. Jimmy Ravenne is the new general manager of Chromalloy’s turbine engine repair and maintenance facility near Paris, France. He comes from...August 1, 2009
About 80 percent of maintenance mistakes involve human factors (HF), according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The maintenance world has unique HF issues that are more severe and longer lasting than elsewhere in aviation. Operators are looking at various techniques to combat HF challenges. Human factors (HF) are constant watchwords in maintenance operations. Although HF maintenance training is not...August 1, 2009
The historic fly-in of more composite intensive aircraft has already begun, from Bombardier’s Learjet 85 to Cessna’s Corvalis 350/400TT models to the Boeing 787 and Airbus A380, in fifth-generation F-22 and F-35 fighters and multiple unmanned aerial vehicles. Most helicopter manufacturers have switched to composite rotor blades, and new engines from both GE and CFM feature composite turbofan...August 1, 2009
Bolts are bolts. Anti-seize goes on before every nut. I don’t need to use a torque wrench; after many years doing this, I can feel when it’s tight enough. I always use a torque wrench, so I know every bolt is tensioned properly. Just flip the washer over if it has an indentation in it. Aircraft are all way overbuilt; everything has redundancy, too. All those statements are wrong, and those...August 1, 2009
A recent article in AM (See Congress: Enough is Enough, July 2009) details a clash between the U.S. and the European Union over the pending FAA Reauthorization Bill. Among other issues, one sticking point appears to be the provision in the reauthorization bill to require drug and alcohol testing at foreign FAA-certificated repair facilities. According to Sarah MacLeod, executive director of the...August 1, 2009
August 2009 17 – 21 Safety Management for Aviation Maintenance, Los Angeles, Calif. USC Viterbi School of Engineering, 310-342-1345 or visit www.viterbi.usc.edu September 2009 14 – 18 Aviation Safety Management Course, Stockholm, Sweden. Scandiavia Aviation, +47-9-118-4182 or visit www.scandiavia.net 14 – 18 Human Factors in Aviation Safety, Los Angeles, Calif. USC Viterbi School of...August 1, 2009
Howie’s House I was most impressed to read Howie Fuller’s “House” article. As usual, it was right on the money and fits in with the Aircraft Engineers International [newsletter] on developments in Europe. I was at the EASA/FAA Harmonization conference in Athens, Greece last month and the problem of failure to record defects was high on the list of safety problems and was raised by...July 1, 2009
July 2009 11 – 14 Aviation Suppliers Association 2009 Conference, Orlando, Fla. ASA, 202-347-6899 or visit www.aviationsuppliers.org August 2009 17 – 21 Safety Management for Aviation Maintenance, Los Angeles, Calif. USC Viterbi School of Engineering, 310-342-1345 or visit www.viterbi.usc.edu September 2009 8 – 9 Aviation Today’s Aircraft Valuation Conference 2009, London, England...July 1, 2009
Few elected officials understand how to run a business or that laws being passed will turn into directives (namely regulations). Fewer still comprehend that there are usually laws and regulations already covering the very subject of the "new" legislation. Case in point is section 303 of H.R. 915, the "FAA Reauthorization Act," pending in the House of Representatives. The legislation...July 1, 2009
Mutual Goals As we went to press for this issue, the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) announced it is ending its affiliation with the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). PAMA affiliated with SAE almost four years ago in what was supposed to be a mutually beneficial relationship. Until PAMA can corral the disparate factions and personalities in the business, it and other organizations...July 1, 2009
Is Retesting Enough? I found that the idea of retesting mechanics that attained their license without the full certification process of the licensing requirements goes deeper than the top side of the FAA merely putting up a somewhat minuscule retesting program (see June AM, page 9, "PAMA Backs Retesting Mechanics"). That does not fix the problem. We never seem to get the full picture of the...
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