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| 03.06.2008 |
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USAF SCOUT Program Adapts RFID to Small Suppliers
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is a well-accepted means of improving the efficiency of manufacturing operations. Data embedded in RFID “tags” attached to items that are shipped to a customer can be “read”...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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HUMS Ascension
"Helicopters are really a bunch of parts flying in relatively close formation; all rotating around a different axis. Things work well until one of the parts breaks formation." - Anon Helicopter...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Summit Aviation Wins: Prestigious Workplace Award
What keeps employees safe, happy and efficient? A management team that understands the needs of its employees and that includes a job that allows for personal and professional growth. As the only aviation MRO...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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Could One Cool Tool Put an A&P in Every Pilot’s Pocket? Almost.
Electronic flight bags (EFBs) may be on the verge of making a more effective business case for fleet wide adoption. Plus a new logging feature offers a proactive, real-time link between flight and maintenance....
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Technology Focus: Unmanned Vehicle Maintenance
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are a growing factor in the aviation community, spurred by the military but looking to expand into the civilian commercial market. What are the maintenance requirements for this...
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| 02.01.2007 |
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Product Focus: Life in the FASTENERS Lane
In the world of engineered components, fasteners aren’t the first things engineers think about and they’re commonly treated as routine. But, choose the wrong fastener for the application and the best laid...
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| 02.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Tool Crib
Stahlwille Fast Ratch Stahlwille Tools announces the Fast Ratch 240 series wrenches. Applications targeted are AN fittings and B nuts on fuel supply lines, hydraulics, oxygen lines, as well as hex nuts and...
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| 11.01.2006 |
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Helicopter Parts: Playing Their Role
Last year, the helicopter industry essentially committed itself to reducing
the accident rate by 80 percent over the next 10 years....
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| 11.01.2006 |
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Reader Feedback
Regulating Maintenance I have been in this business for over 40 years. I have found a very simple solution to regulating all maintenance, since the FAA won't. Mandatory insurance! If you cannot license your car each year without insurance, then the same...
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| 11.01.2006 |
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Special Report: Cleaning Products
Flitz Polish for Bizjet Maintainers Flitz Metal Polish is a concentrated cream used to clean, polish, deoxidize, and protect most metal surfaces, including stainless steel, aluminum, anodized aluminum, brass, copper, sterling silver, chrome, nickel, bronze...
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| 11.01.2006 |
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Change Agent
Scott Klavon was named director of Standards, Professional Development, and Aerospace Businesses for SAE International in October 2005....
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| 10.01.2006 |
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HUMS
by David Jensen Health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS) for helicopters amass plenty of data. Now efforts are being made to put that information to better use. Like divers salvaging the contents of sunken ships, the manufacturers of health and usage...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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Engine Washing
New on-wing washing using an atomized mist of water penetrates deeper into the engine and promises to be environmentally friendly It may be one of the great ironies of modern aviation that turbine engines work most efficiently at temperatures more than hot...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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HUMS
Health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS) for helicopters amass plenty of data. Now efforts are being made to put that information to better use. Like divers salvaging the contents of sunken ships, the manufacturers of health and usage monitoring systems...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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Regulatory Report
Structural Non-Integrity An inspection and, if necessary, repair is needed for Raytheon model 1900, 1900C and 1900D airplanes to ensure that the wings don't separate from the airplane, according to an August 31 emergency airworthiness directive (AD) issued by...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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The Eye Inside
Borescopes and videoscopes are providing increasing capabilities to users and can save time and money in the hangar. The thing with borescopes is not so much what they do, but how they do it. Here is a look at the industry's latest and greatest ways to...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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Tools Make the Maintainer
Good tools, and effective tool control, are essential for modern maintenance needs. The quality of maintenance workmanship depends on the technician doing the work, to be sure, but the quality of tools used plays an important role. The guiding principles at...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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Houston, It's the Same Old Problem
OH TWO Can Be Oh So Deadly John Sampson After astronaut Jack Swigart first uttered the famous words, "Houston we've had a problem here," later investigation revealed that one of the two oxygen tanks in the Apollo 13 service module had suffered...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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Calendar
SEPTEMBER 2006 6-7 18th FAA/ATA International Symposium on Human Factors in Maintenance and Ramp Operations, From Bolts to Bags--Managing Human Factors to Assure Safety. Orlando, Florida. Phone: 202-626-4134, www.airlines.org 12-15 The World Airline...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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The Silence That Suffocates
Aircraft mechanics and troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have one thing in common: potential and long-term hearing loss. I write from experience, having served in Vietnam combat and as a Marine Corps artillery officer for years afterward...
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