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| 05.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Aftermarket: Confused About Aviation MX Insurance?
Insurance is figured into the cost of doing business, but with a limited number of insurers in the aviation industry, what’s a small shop to do? Whenever aviation mechanics or shop managers congregate, the subject of insurance almost always comes up...
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Aviation Maintenance: Product Focus: A Kingdom for the Right Tool
Good, quality tools can help aircraft mechanics work more efficiently. A&P Mitch Muller tried out a few offerings in his shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Here’s what he learned. For professionals that need them in order to make a living, tools become an...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Editor’s Notebook
Blame Game In early March the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it was initiating an action to collect a $10.2 million civil penalty from Southwest Airlines for operating 46 planes without performing mandatory inspections for fuselage fatigue...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Reader Feedback
You Can’t Fight Progress It is not often that I comment these days, one way or the other, on words or positions that come from the mouth of politicians as I have come, in my old age, to hold most politicians in very low esteem. But I feel the remarks...
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Intelligence: News
With the inauguration of the A380 maintenance hangar at its central maintenance facility in Frankfurt, Lufthansa Technik said it is ideally equipped to provide technical support for the Lufthansa fleet’s future flagship and all other wide-body aircraft...
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About People
TIMCO promoted Jeff Luedeke to VP of sales & marketing with responsibility for both the TIMCO Aerosystems and Brice Manufacturing Company brands. Virgin America appointed Tom Anderson as their SVP of technical operations. Bell Helicopter announced Reg...
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Briefs
Bombardier’s New Tech Pubs Bombardier Regional Aircraft has developed new capabilities for its CRJ regional jet and Q-series turboprop technical manuals delivered in Adobe PDF format. The company scheduled the release for the first quarter of 2008. The...
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Calendar
April 2008 7-11 Accident & Investigation Course, Stockholm, Sweden. www.scandiavia.net 14-15 Threat and Error Management Course, Stockholm, Sweden. www.scandiavia.net 15-17 2008 MRO Conference and Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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The Science of Aging Aircraft
Airplanes, like humans, deteriorate physically during their long lives. Accumulating stresses make it important to have regular checkups and, as the years go by, more frequent visits to specialists. Like geriatric medicine, aircraft aging science has become...
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Europe’s Challenges In a Dynamic MRO Market
Dramatic growth and change are forecasted for the worldwide aircraft maintenance market. Are Europe’s established repair centers positioned to maintain their share? The maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) market looks strong and is expected to grow...
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The Checkbook Is Not Balancing
What led to the China Airlines accident of a Boeing 737-800 last August? Bart Crotty speculates that as with any accident, there were many factors including a loose bolt, a service letter and a possible error in the re-assembling of some parts after...
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Software Tools
Suppliers discuss the improved efficiency, visibility and connectivity possible through comprehensive and modular software systems. In Greek mythology, a king named Sisyphus must forever roll a boulder up a steep hill. In some sense, the volume of data...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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GoingDutch
The Air France-KLM tie-up has been one of the most successful of airline mergers enacted. Roy Allen hears what it means to KLM Maintenance & Engineering. In a world where well-backed airlines start up daily, KLM and Air France believed there was enough...
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A Mechanic’s Guide to Fall Protection Systems
Fall protection may not be the first thought when climbing atop an aircraft to perform a minor repair. If a task will only take five minutes, the risk of falling may be seen as a lesser evil than the additional time it would take to set up a fall...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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In Country
Preconceived notions are the bane of any profession, but they’re particularly insidious in a strategic industry like aviation. There’s nothing worse than self-appointed "experts" who regurgitate the same old conventional wisdom...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Aviation Safety Managements Systems
What would W. Edwards Deming say about aviation safety management systems? Deming died in 1993 but many of his quality and management principals and concepts keep surfacing in new applications and under new terms, for example, safety management systems...
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Russ Halliday, Maintenix Product Manager, Mxi Technologies
Russ Halliday is the Maintenix product manager at Mxi Technologies. Halliday has been with Mxi for more than nine years and works to understand customer and market requirements in order to direct the growth and development of the Maintenix product. AM: Please...
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| 03.07.2008 |
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Back Shop/Tool Crib
Tuff Wipes for Your Really Tough Cleaning Jobs Give up the wimpy paper towels and shop rags. New Tuff Wipes will handle tough cleaning jobs without falling apart. Stronger Tuff Wipes will stand up to oils, solvents and chemicals and their textured surface...
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| 03.06.2008 |
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Briefs
Sabreliner to Make Rudders Sabreliner Corp. has been awarded a contract by The Boeing Company to build replacement rudders for the U.S. Air Force fleet of KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft used primarily for aerial refueling. Sabreliner will draw upon the...
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| 03.06.2008 |
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Mentoring
Was anyone else forced to read the Greek myths or Homer’s "Odyssey" in high school? I was. At the time, I thought of them as pure drudgery. Even the dreaded Shakespeare was better than these ancient and obscure stories. But, as I have grown...
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