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| 08.01.2008 |
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Surviving the Perfect Storm
Record oil prices are pushing the cost of jet fuel to nosebleed heights, forcing many operators and their suppliers into retrenchment and decline — even bankruptcy. In the matter of a few months, the aviation industry has slipped from prosperity into...
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| 07.01.2008 |
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RFID Use in Tracking Parts
The use of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags for highly precise tracking in supply chains is crossing over from the consumer world to emerge as a mainstream technology in the aviation maintenance sector. Propelled by new mandates at major retailers...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Back Shop: Aviation Today
Beyond Mass Production Remember when America feared that its once-mighty manufacturing base was getting "hollowed out" and its assembly line workers were being transformed into a mindless horde of minimum-wage hamburger flippers? Not too long ago...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Back Shop: Aviation Today
Igor Sikorsky, the godfather of the modern helicopter, perhaps summed it up best: "Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle." When I served as editor-in-chief of Rotor & Wing magazine during the 1990s, I was always...
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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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| 03.06.2008 |
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The Truth Behind The Lies
Mark Twain once said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” Well, the latest statistics about the aviation industry are not only truthful; they’re reassuring. According to the Teal Group and G2 Solutions, two...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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Aviation Today
Back in medieval times, when I was a college student in my native Boston, I typed all of my term papers on a battered manual typewriter, the personal computer was only a gleam in Steve Jobs’ eye, and my local baseball team was a perennial loser. Since...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Aviation Today
Composites represent the most important improvement in aircraft construction since the introduction of aluminum in the 1920s. The adoption of these "miracle materials" is sweeping all sectors of aviation, but the industry is still grappling with how...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Aviation Today
Jack Northrop. Leroy Grumman. Donald Douglas. Glenn Martin. Howard Hughes. There was a time when the logos of aviation firms boasted a single last name. These individuals were visionaries, typically engineers or pilots, who exerted God-like control over their...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Aviation Today
"Greed is good." During the go-go 1980s, the infamous financier Ivan Boesky imparted that inspirational homily in a speech to college kids. Boesky’s sentiment (echoed by his cinematic alter ego, Gordon Gekko of Wall Street fame) comes to mind...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Aviation Today
It’s time to face the music: global warming is no myth. The earth’s climate is getting hotter because of human activity and all industries will experience upheaval, especially air transportation. Conventional wisdom for a long time held that air...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Aviation Today
Proper aviation maintenance is measured in more than just dollars and cents — it’s also measured in human lives. That was the overriding message of a new podcast posted onto Aviation Today, titled: "Safe Outsourcing: How to Ensure Proper Fuel...
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| 06.01.2007 |
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Back Shop Commercial Edition: Aviation Today
Seattle is famous for three things: self-consciously hip musicians attired like lumberjacks; a citizenry infatuated with overpriced gourmet coffee; and, most importantly for our purposes, aircraft manufacturing. During a recent visit to this spectacularly...
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